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This food blog is inspired by the wonderful home cooking of my Italian grandmother, a native of a small town in Campania called Apice Vecchio. You'll find her recipes here, plus some of my favorite dishes from other parts of Italy, especially Rome, where I lived for ten memorable years.

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May 28

Céléri rémoulade

I normally like my salads with a simple oil and vinegar dressing in the typical Italian manner, but once and a while I get the urge for one of those rich and creamy salads like cole slaw or Russian salad … or this French classic: céléri rémoulad (read full article)

antipasti, contorno, french, vegetable, Vegetarian

Apr 17

Aïoli with Spring Vegetables

While versions of it are made around the rim of the western Mediterranean, from Spain all the way to Sicily, this garlic sauce is best known in its Provençale incarnation known as aïoli. It is a commonplace to refer to aioli in English as garlic ma (read full article)

antipasti, french, piatti unici, spring, summer, Vegetarian

Dec 20

Côtes d’agneau Champvallon

This dish brings me back to my Paris days, when I took a couple of years off from the law to teach English.  Hearty but easy on the pocketbook, it was just the ticket for a temporary bohemian. These days my pocket are a bit deeper, but I still e (read full article)

Fall, french, Lamb, Meat, piatti unici, secondi, winter

Nov 08

Moules au curry

Here's a wonderfully rich but yet light supper dish—steamed mussels in a curry cream sauce—from Belgium, the world capital of mussel dishes. With a crusty baguette to sop up the delicious sauce, you have a one-way ticket to culinary nirvana. Begi (read full article)

antipasti, Belgian, fish, french, secondi

Oct 10

Quick Note: Salade frisée à l'anchoiade

One of my favorite cold weather salads back in Rome were puntarelle, a kind of chicory typically dressed with a kind of garlic and anchovy vinaigrette. Fond memories...! This salad is a more refined French cousin, fit for elegant dinners but rustic e (read full article)

antipasti, Fall, french, Quick, Salads, winter

Oct 03

Buttery Mashed Potatoes

While it's true that we mostly eat Italian at home, there are some dishes that even I have to admit the French do better. (I hope Angelina isn't listening....) One of them is mashed potatoes and, more specifically, the incredibly buttery version made (read full article)

contorno, french, vegetable

Sep 06

Fricassée de poulet à l'ancienne

I grew up on Julia Child. Other than nonna Angelina herself, no one inspired my love affair with cooking more. While other kids were eating milk and cookies and watching cartoons, I ran home to make rice and cheese and sit down to the latest instalme (read full article)

Chicken, french, Meat, secondi

Sep 06

Salade frisée aux lardons

This rustic salad was one of my favorite starters when I lived in Paris. It is sheer simplicity to make: just brown some lardons slowly in a bit of oil (I like olive oil) until they have rendered their fat and are lightly crisp. While the lardons are (read full article)

antipasti, french, Salads

Aug 22

Whitefish brandade

Salt cod can be hard to find. It takes some considerable time to prepare and, plus, codfish stocks are dangerously depleted. So what is a brandade maven like myself to do? Well, today I "invented" a new dish by using smoked whitefish--something you c (read full article)

antipasti, fish, french, snack

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