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Kale with White Beans & Italian Sausage
I love rustic dishes, and I thought this was a perfect way to use the beautiful kale I just picked up. Kale is an awesome veggie, and full of great nutrients. A little italian sausage, a can of beans, and the dish grew from there. This is a quick mea (read full article)
Fabulous Food Festivals - Crab Salad Rolls
I experienced my first food festival in Sienna, Italy when I was seventeen. I had just arrived, jetlagged, and couldn’t understand a word anyone was saying to me, but my Italian host family insisted on dragging me to a party, repeating Spas (read full article)
Poor Girl Chimichurri Steaks
Chimichurri sauce is an Argentinean sauce or condiment, similar to pesto, which is popular throughout South America. I read that a bowl of chimichurri sauce can be found on every dinner table in Argentina. Have you ever made a chimichurri sauce? My (read full article)
4 Easy Summer Dishes When Its Just Too Hot to Cook
*** Try some easy and quick summer recipes to beat the crazy heat - and avoiding cooking with any heat. From Denny: Try something as simple as these sliced tomatoes and avocado with a side of... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my web (read full article)
Mom's Maryland Crab Cakes
I made these crab cakes while at the beach this weekend. Absolutely delicious, and surprisingly easy. Enjoy! Ingredients 1 lb backfin or jumbo lump crab 1/2 cup Italian breadcrumbs 1 egg, beaten 1/2 onion, diced very small 1 tsp French's musta (read full article)
Cake Tuesday: Italian Cream Cake
*** One of my favorite cakes to order a slice for dessert when we dine out - and also an easy cake to make at home! From Denny: Italian Cream Cake is a favorite at our house and we often make... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my web (read full article)
Italian-Style Pork Steaks with Sage and White Wine
One of my favourite blogs is “Cooking at Marystow” by the lovely Lucie, her blog is always an inspiration with all her mouth-watering delights. When I spotted this recipe over at her blog I knew I had to make it. Lucie said this was “totally de (read full article)
Roast Pork Tenderloin with Romesco Sauce - What Alex SHOULD have made!
Roast Pork Tenderloin with Romesco SauceSo, the other night my husband and I were watching Top Chef (after 6 years, my husband is now hooked - SWEET!) and the chefs challenge was to choose a country and then cook a dish inspired by that country. The (read full article)
OH SO VERY ITALIAN - ENJOY THE MUSIC!
Be sure to check out my new blogsite A CUPCAKE IN EACH HAND atwww.greatcupcakes.blogspot.com I was all set to do a blog entry on something I made, when I saw this on one of my cooking sites. This has to be one of the best Italian sandwiches in the w (read full article)
Croatia: Cool People and They Make Minestrone
Summer Minestrone Recipe Summer Minestrone Soup My hub gets a bit anxious about my allergies whenever we go anywhere odd/ vaguely exotic. I joined him on a business trip a couple of years back, and he had one of his staff in Singapore translate my (read full article)
Heirloom Tomato and Mozzarella Bruschetta
Hi everyone! I’m back! What a week this has been. It’s been tiring. It’s been draining. But we’re finally all moved into our new home. Moved in however, doesn’t mean unpacked and if you read my last post you know how I (read full article)
Tastemakers, New Toque on the Block and The Simple Truth About Italian Food
A blast of flavor ~ Blood-Red Bluefin: The New Ortolan? "What's the feeling that people writing about food reserve for ortolan, the endangered and forbidden European songbird that has been a staple... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my web (read full article)
Left-over Magic: White Pizza Edition
Sometimes - ok, often - my fridge is a disaster; full of left-over bits of this, and unused bits of that. If I've been cooking a lot, the shelves will be a melange of monkey dishes featuring half-cups of veggies, perhaps a solo portion of meat - the (read full article)
Portuguese Soup
Oh no...not another Kale recipe!!!! I promise, I'll leave it alone for a while after this one. I'd heard about Portuguese Soup many times but this is my first attempt. I had absolutely no clue what ingredients to use but after combing the internet (read full article)
Caprese Salad Recipe
Caprese Salad Recipe by Jackie Cameron On a recent visit to Switzerland, I unexpectedly crossed the border one day for lunch in Italy. Choosing a traditional Caprese salad with Foccacia bread and Gnocchi Gorgonzola seemed the right thing to d (read full article)
Giovanna’s Tomato Sauce
I had the pleasure this weekend of spending time with friends and cooking. My friend Giovanna grew up in an Italian home. He parents were first generation Italians from Sicily. We are both extreme foodies so the thought of growing up with such (read full article)
Spinach Spaghetti Soup with Paneer
Till date I have been unable to decide if I really like to cook or if I like to feed my loved ones more. Why this lingering doubt? Well if I really liked to cook, then I should love to cook all the time right, including when it comes to making somet (read full article)
Pasta with Chorizo & Prawns
The pasta I used (just for a change) was Mezzi Ziti and came from The Pasta Shop in Peterborough. An Italian deli/local store that stocks a huge variety of Italian foods, including a fresh meat and cheese counter, wines, liqueurs and possibly the la (read full article)
Bulk Cooking Weekend!
It has been a busy weekend for me. My freezer was bare and it was time to fill it. Breakfast Strada--recipe to come Cole Slaw Salad Ready-To-Go Grapes Italian Beef Sausage with Wild Rice--recipe to come Applesauce Chicken & Brats Cran (read full article)
Maiale Ubriaco
They don't make pork like they used to. Modern pork is raised lean for health reasons but in the process a lot of flavor got lost. But there are ways to make up for the lack of intrinsic flavor, like this simple Tuscan method for making pork ch (read full article)



