A Seven Fishes Recipe Roundup and Our 2021 Menu 🐠
It’s time for our Seven Fishes Roundup and our Seven Fishes menu for 2021! As mentioned in my last post, the Seven Fishes feast has …
Easy Tuscan Peposo and Magical Montalcino ❤️
On our recent trip to Montalcino, Joey and I cooked up a Florentine stew called Peposo, which has a long history dating back to when …
Fresh Fish Frittata & Birthday Celebrations
We just returned from a few weeks in our beautiful Motherland. Joey and Mark kicked things off early with a week up near Liguria while …
Salted Chocolate Crostata (& off to Italia we go!)
I am not sure what has me more excited….this crostata or that we are headed back to Italy next week! (Ok, I really know the …
Stuffed Zucchini & Lopez Island
As the calendar ticks forward into Autumn 🍁, food magazines and newspaper recipes would tell you it’s time to start making stews and belly-warming dishes …
Summer’s End: Roasted Eggplant with Tomatoes and Burrata
Oh glorious summer – how I hate to see you go (excessive heat, tornados, hurricanes and floods aside :-)). Summer is my season and as …
Pasta mari e monti
Here’s another tasty and simple summer 😎 😎 😎 dish that won’t heat up your kitchen. Pasta mare e monti is a wonderful dish from …
Summer Corn Soup with Crispy Pancetta
Summer living is the best, isn’t it? There is something about the simplicity that the summer season brings to my cooking that makes my little …
Sicilian Stuffed Peppers
Summer, summer, summer ☀️ ☀️ ☀️ ☀️… what to cook this hot summer? When you want something tasty and filling, Sicilian stuffed peppers are the …
Roasted Pork Loin with “Tonnato” Sauce
Tuna sauce (“tonnato”)?! On pork?! Served cold?! 😲 What is going on here?! Welcome to an epic summer Italian-style with a delicious twist on a …
Insalata di Riso: An Italian Summer Staple
Let’s talk about rice salads, shall we? Here in the US we don’t eat rice salads, insalata di riso, nearly as much as they do …
Gatherings at last: Pasta Primavera with Roasted Vegetables
About a year ago, my sister Michele had the idea to write a short cookbook called Gatherings (⬅️ to download a free PDF version or …