Chocolate Sweet Buns: Pangoccioli
For the past few months, the aroma of freshly baked bread has been wafting from my kitchen window. Anyone peeking through my window would find …
For the past few months, the aroma of freshly baked bread has been wafting from my kitchen window. Anyone peeking through my window would find …
This week a fellow Italian food writer, Lolly who writes Weeknight Pasta from Italy, mentioned that Italians have a word for the combined high heat …
It’s really hot outside. You are headed to a pool party and you want to make something yummy but that you can serve at room …
I have been studying with an online Italian tutor for over 2 years – a (mostly) weekly lesson where I am painstakingly learning all the …
Italians really don’t like to cook in the summer. When the summer starts, so do the lighter and easier-to-prepare meals. Cooking and sweating away in …
I first tasted pistachio pesto (pesto al pistacchio) at a restaurant on the slopes of Mount Etna. I don’t remember the exact year but for …
Spiedini (meaning “skewers” in Italian) are wonderful summertime food that I fondly remember eating at seaside restaurants in Senigallia and Sicily. There is something about …
During my recent Sicily trip, I spent a few mornings around the docks in Castellammare del Golfo, a fishing village that I was using as …
Pasta alla Gricia is one of the four famous pastas of Rome. The others, Amatriciana, Carbonara and Cacao e pepe are well know but Gricia …
Do you have a recipe that you turn to repeatedly, one that you can whip up effortlessly when you are utterly exhausted or simply craving …
Buongiorno from Sicily. 🌟 It’s early AM and the sun is just beginning to peek over the buildings. After a restless night of sleep, I …
My sister Michele wrote in our last post that springtime is coming into focus. Judging by the plants leafing out here in Southern California, the …