Italian recipes - page 7

These are one of my favorite cookies. I make these for every family holiday and parties. They are just delicious and everyone loves them. This recipe is a real keeper. There are a few steps involved, but it so well worth it. This is a professional pa

We love a good pasta dish here in my house so this one has always been a standby for days when I don't have much time to be in the kitchen. I'm in the middle of unpacking our last box and being able to sigh a sigh of relief and be done, so while I was do

One of our favorite spots to visit when we?re in Florida is Carmine?s Gourmet Market in Palm Beach Gardens. We like to dine outside for lunch on their patio and listen to Dean Martin crooning Arrivederci Roma and other Italian favorites while we admir

Piada; my new love. I can?t get enough of it! In fact, I?m seriously afraid it might be becoming an addiction. But what a lovely addiction it is. If you have not been there yet, you really need to go NOW. The food totally rocks! Piada is the lat

See? It can be done. This is not merely gratuitous proof but overwhelming proof done exceedingly well. There are so many situations where we have no choice but to break bread with those who insist on eating meat. Unfortunately we're often left with few c

The November 2009 Daring Bakers Challenge was chosen and hosted by Lisa Michele of Parsley, Sage, Desserts and Line Drives. She chose the Italian Pastry, Cannolo (Cannoli is plural), using the cookbooks Lidia?s Italian-American Kitchen by Lidia Matticchio

(photo: the ideal Italian life represented in Pellegrina, Reggio Calabria) Italian Shopping on Steroids You'll have to excuse me if I sound a bit crabby this morning, as I just finished reading a New York Times review of the mega supermarket Eatal

For many Italians, Summer means outdoor grilling, just as it does for much of the rest of the world. One of my grilling favorites is the grigliata mista , mixed grilled meats. The choice of meats is up to the cook, but it usually includes lamb, pork, chi

Hi, this is the fifty third entry abou the art of cooking Italian pasta. Today s post is dedicated to another pasta salad idea: pasta salad with artichokes and surimi crab sticks . Pasta salad with artichokes and surimi crab sticks It s easy-to

Hi, this is the twenty second post about Italian cooking. In the last post we spoke you about an easy winter menu composed by three courses all made with winter ingredients. Today we d like to tell people who live south the Equator. Summer is going t

Hi, this is the twentieth post about the authentic Italian recipes. The last post was about pasta e broccoli . Now it s time to show you another recipe with more ingredients: pasta with broccoli and crab meat . The recipe is easy-to-do and very ta

While Manila has become oversaturated with Italian restaurants, it has also become disamarmingly apparent that most of these are of the second-rate, trying-hard, copycat kind. With the exception of Italianni's with the checkered, laminated tablecloths tha

There is ?something? in pizza that could really make me drool. When craving hits me, it is really difficult to ignore or resist such a desire. While the ?probably best pizza restaurant? in Sri Lanka which I featured before in my post ?Best Pizza in Sri L

When ever I go to Italian Restaurant, I always end up in the same confused state what to order. As I love EggPlant/Brinjal/Baingan/Vankaya (????? ) , I have tried Eggplant Parmesan several times, (as a person who loves to try different foods), I am bored

So one day, I defrosted some salmon fillets, but didn t have a clue what to prepare. After rummaging through the cupboard and fridge, I threw together a few ingredients that can be incorporated with the salmon tomatoes, red onion, mushrooms, basil, arti

(Photo "Soupie" or Soppressata during the "first hanging." The meat is already starting to shrink and change color; the meat hangs in this manner for one week. Courtesy of Matt Scicchitano) In Calabria, the salumi sopressata ( see my guide to salumi

A John Cassavetes flick is a cinematic palate cleanser. After a steady diet of predictable and anemic Hollywood film scraps it's great to dig into raw, spicy and unpredictable filmmaking. And I've come up with a pasta dish that is as fiery as one of my

Capricciosa From all the flowers and well wishes, it kinda gives it away that this restaurant is newly opened. Its a new restaurant indeed but the food that it serves goes a long way back; back in 1978. I can hear some of you going "Oh another Japanese

Crunchy, light pillows of ricotta cheese filling dipped in a delicious Marinara Sauce. How does that sound to you? When my Co-Worker, Kelly, described this delicious appetizer her eyes were rolling in the back of her head. "It's the buttermilk that give

I get the same reaction when I wax philosophically about the virtues of Capretto or baby goat; namely, that's gross! I often explain how, as far as I can remember, eating baby goat was a staple of our Italian American Easter and Christmas dinners. Nonna

I remember walking through the Calabrian countryside with my grandfather as a boy when he suddenly feel to his knees and plucked a few pieces of what I thought was simple green grass from the ground. I, of course, thought he was just being his usual pa

The cuisine of most countries is often associated with a certain style/focus, like French cuisine is mostly linked to elaborate, complex dishes, German to heavily meat based dishes with hardly any vegetables besides potatoes or Italian to simple dishes wi

Italian cuisine is often characterized as driven by seasons and being focused on very few ingredients in each dish. There are pasta dishes like Spaghetti Carbonara which fall under this category. For us the dish which symbolizes this philosophy most is

I think there are very few who can vouch and say that they DON T like Pizza! Its not the healthiest thing to be munching around all the time, but then on occasion when you enjoy it, nothing competes the heartiness and deliciousness of a yummy pizza! I h