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Simple and easy Italian recipes along with insightful kitchen experiences and tips which all lend to simpler cooking.
Caponata is a lesser known recipe among the world of antipasto dishes. Some would prefer to call this dish a relish. The main ingredient is eggplant and you use it as a topping on toasted Italian garlic bread. But it is not eggplant alone that th (read full article)
OK, OK I hear you… sometimes is just easier to buy breadcrumbs at the store. I agree. But you might be surprised that many Italians make their own fresh breadcrumbs more often than you might think. The ironic thing is, Italians typically ju (read full article)
Here is a really easy recipe that I’m not even sure can be called a recipe because it is so easy! I mention this recipe because summertime is coming and I look at my garden and I’m known going to have some wonderful tomatoes. So here (read full article)
If you try and look for zucchini pasta in a store, you will not find anything that reads zucchini pasta. However, you can buy some fresh zucchini in the vegetable section and easily make your own. Here is How to use Zucchini as Pasta All you need t (read full article)
As you may or may not know, each week I release a new Italian recipe. The recipe must meet my criteria of being a simple one, because I think simple cooking produces just as good results as complex cooking. Plus – I can’t do anything be (read full article)
How to Make Pizza Dough Guest Blog Post by Chris Molnar I’ve been making home-made pizza for 12 years, and in that time created my perfect pizza dough recipe. What? You order take-out? Huh? You buy pre-made dough? It seems we have lost the art (read full article)
Roasted garlic will fill your house with a wonderful aroma. It is a very healthy vegetable related to the onion. It is great for the heart and helps contribute to lowering cholesterol. Whenever you can use garlic in recipes, do it! There are (read full article)
Tonight I had an amazingly easy recipe which I made on the fly and I think you will like it too. I’m afraid I don’t have a photo though. I was so hungry I didn’t even think about it. Befuddled by what to make, I resorted to though (read full article)
I could do a whole series on the various lasagna types out there. From meatless to veggie to white to a mix. But this recipe is just a nice simple meatless one that I love to make. It doesn’t involve a zillion ingredients or spices and ye (read full article)
It is most likely you know of at least one person who for one reason or another cannot eat wheat or gluten containing products. As for myself, life without semolina pasta is something I try not to think about. It’s just too painful. This is (read full article)
What is more intimidating? Having one way of preparing a recipe or having a range of options? When I first started cooking I would have answered the latter (having a range of options). Simply because I didn’t even know what options were l (read full article)
What is more intimidating? Having one way of preparing a recipe or having a range of options? When I first started cooking I would have answered the latter (having a range of options). Simply because I didn’t even know what options were l (read full article)
If you have tried ricotta and spinach pizza, you might want to give it a try. I like to describe it as an open faced calzone more than a pizza. But then again, I have not in the past been a big fan of white pizzas. This is obviously changing. U (read full article)
You can never run out of ideas for how to cook a whole chicken. There are various techniques with the actual process for cooking a chicken, along with an endless list of seasonings and other ingredients you can use. This week’s recipe is roas (read full article)
Today is the first day of Spring. What a perfect time to talk about a springtime meal called Pasta Primavera. What is Pasta Primavera? Well, “primavera” means “spring” as in the season Spring, in Italian. If you ever had (read full article)
“Antipasto” means before the pasta, or before the meal. But for me it can also mean, “a great snack”! There are many different antipasto recipes available. While reading an Italian cookbook the other night I found my (read full article)
This week’s Italian recipe is Chicken Piccata. I’ve seen a variety of definitions for what “piccata” means from “cooked” to “grilled” to “sauce with lemon”, even to “irritated” (read full article)
Ciabatta bread slices for pizza Growing up, I recall my mother making little pizzas on english muffins. They were very easy to make and of course they tasted good. However, there was one issue we ran into every single time… soggy (read full article)
I had a hard time determining what chicken recipes to do for the rest of the month of March. As you may know, each month I focus on a specific ingredient. Maybe it is an herb or spice, or a type of bean. This month it is chicken. Last week (read full article)
It’s amazing the power of a recipe name. Italian “wedding” soup – makes it sound like it’s only good for weddings. I never questioned the name until recently and what a funny thing I discovered… the soup is not (read full article)
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