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Avocado Chicken Parmigiana
This is one variation of Southern Italian dish "Parmigiana", which is made with shallow-fried eggplants slices topped with tomato sauce and cheese. It is then baked until the cheese is melted and bubbly. Some recipes use hard grated cheeses such (read full article)
Mangia Monday!
"The trouble with eating Italian food is that 5 or 6 days later you're hungry again."-George MillerCan you believe it?? The weekend is over! Where does the time go? I had a wonderful weekend, I hope you did also! Every Sunday night we have Sunday din (read full article)
Shrimp Bacon Carbonara
Have you ever made shrimp scampi and been left with just shrimp...no sauce (because everyone wanted more than their fair share of buttery yum on their pasta)? Well, I had just such a case happen to me. I had another unexpected leftove (read full article)
Kale and Hungarian Sausage Pasta
As you can see, I'm on a Kale experimentation journey. It's official - Kale is now my favourite vegetable and I'm looking forward to trying the different varieties. This pasta dish was so comforting with a good kick! I'm submitting this dish to th (read full article)
Fresh Zucchini Pasta
I prepared this dish last night and the fresh flavors were out of this world. Each bite packed so many great flavors and it was pretty easy to prepare. Yellow squash would work great in this recipe as well. 10 oz. Linguine 4 medium zucchini 6 table (read full article)
Fresh Zucchini Pasta
I prepared this dish last night and the fresh flavors were out of this world. Each bite packed so many great flavors and it was pretty easy to prepare. Yellow squash would work great in this recipe as well. 10 oz. Linguine 4 medium zucchini 6 tabl (read full article)
What's for Dinner? Pasta Frittata
Any leftover pasta will make this quick dinner a snap. I had Penne from dinner a couple nights ago so I used that. Whisk about 4 eggs (depending on how much pasta you have), some cream, salt, pepper and whatever fresh herbs you have on hand, I added (read full article)
Flowers, Littles, Whales and Sauteed Spinach with Garlic
Yesterday I spent the day at the beach with two of my favorite people.Hannah, age 4 - doing a "mermaid sea" dance for me.And Jillian, age 2 - just being happy JillianThey are small, but mighty. Speaking of mighty, we were lucky enough to see a whale; (read full article)
A Fabulous Method For Cooking Meatballs
Meatballs: Makes about 34 meatballs .660 kg ground lean beef (roughly, does not have to be exact, just about those combinations) .510 kg ground pork 2 large eggs 1/2 cup of freshly grated Pecorino Romano 1 tablespoons chopped parsley 1 clove of (read full article)
Millepetali di fiori di zucca
Click here to read the English versionEhm...sì, lo so che di solito sono "Millefoglie", ma stavolta credo che "Millepetali" vada meglio per definire questa ricetta - non ricetta :-DNon-ricetta perchè è così semplice che anche chi non ha mai messo (read full article)
Pecorino
Pecorino is the name of a family of hard Italian Cheeses made from ewe’s milk. The word derives from pecora meaning ‘sheep’. Of the four main varieties of Pecorino, all of which have Protected Designation of Origin (PDO) status under Eu (read full article)
Stuffed Eggplant
I'm on an eggplant binge. Some time ago I posted a recipe for aubergine crumble to which my readers responed with mixed emotions. This is a 100% southern Italian recipe for stuffed eggplant I learned in Calabria. It employs bread, mint leaves and Pec (read full article)
Stuffed Eggplant
I'm on an eggplant binge. Some time ago I posted a recipe for aubergine crumble to which my readers responed with mixed emotions. This is a 100% southern Italian recipe for stuffed eggplant I learned in Calabria. It employs bread, mint leaves and Pec (read full article)
Stuffed Eggplant
I'm on an eggplant binge. Some time ago I posted a recipe for aubergine crumble to which my readers responed with mixed emotions. This is a 100% southern Italian recipe for stuffed eggplant I learned in Calabria. It employs bread, mint leaves and Pec (read full article)
Vegetarian meatballs
Image © psicologaincucina I have mentioned my partiality towards polpette, right? Well, here’s one of my favorite vegetarian meatball recipes. Stolen from the restaurant menu of Positano’s food heaven, Buca di Bacco, with kind permission o (read full article)
Vegetarian meatballs
Image © psicologaincucinaI have mentioned my partiality towards polpette, right? Well, here’s one of my favorite vegetarian meatball recipes. Stolen from the restaurant menu of Positano’s food heaven, Buca di Bacco, with kind permission of (read full article)
Vegetarian meatballs
Image © psicologaincucinaI have mentioned my partiality towards polpette, right? Well, here’s one of my favorite vegetarian meatball recipes. Stolen from the restaurant menu of Positano’s food heaven, Buca di Bacco, with kind permission of (read full article)
Italian Mushroom & Celery Heart Salad- From My Past Life to Yours
Today I thought I'd bring you one of those dishes out of my memory banks. It's a rustic Italian salad of the utmost simplicity. It's the kind of salad that would be served to you after a large (read full article)
TORTA AL FORMAGGIO UMBRA
Le festività pasquali sono appena terminate, ma mi era rimasta da postare quest'ultima ricetta che ho preparato per il Lunedì dell'Angelo. E' la Torta al formaggio umbra che si prepara proprio nel periodo pasquale, ma è talmente buona che consigli (read full article)
03.27.10: dinner (slightly distracted cacio e pepe and fried okra).
Cacio e Pepe My parents’ visit meant that our normal Saturday routine of foraging for something special for dinner didn’t take place, leaving us at a strange place to figure out what we were going to have for dinner. Neither of us f (read full article)



