Category: Italian

Tuscan Bean Soup

Is it still soup weather where you live? I live in Florida so I no longer know how to think of soup weather, or football weather, or any other kind of non-warm weather. What you

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Spaghetti Squash

Spaghetti Squash. You are one weird vegetable. You look like pasta, but you taste like squash. I’m not one of those people who can be fooled into thinking that a vegetable is really a substitute

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Pork Roast Braised in Milk – Amazing!

Pork Roast Braised in Milk. So ridiculously easy and so AMAZINGLY tender and delicious. Sounds like a weird thing — braising in milk — but apparently it’s a very traditional Italian way of cooking pork

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Quick & Easy Shrimp Pasta

Quick. Easy. Delicious. Shrimp with pasta, a light sauce, and gobs of blue cheese. This is one of our go-to meals when time is short, or I don’t want to go to the store, or

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Minestrone

A week or so ago when I made this Fabulous Focaccia, I also made a big pot of hearty Minestrone soup. Full of a garden’s worth of vegetables, this Italian soup is easy to make

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Focaccia

Focaccia. Warm from the oven, golden brown, and fabulous. It’s pretty obvious, since I have a cooking website, that I love to cook. So when I get really excited about a recipe, you’d better believe

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Pasta Puttanesca

Pasta Puttanesca! Do you know the rather colorful story about Pasta Puttanesca? The story goes that (ahem) ladies of the evening would make a large dish of this highly aromatic pasta and put it in

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Creamy Zucchini Linguine

Creamy Zucchini Linguine. With Pancetta….but that doesn’t rhyme. No, I’m not having my own personal Zucchini Festival over  here. Even though I’ve recently posted a recipe for  Zucchini Pineapple Bread, this pasta was too good

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Pork Chops with Porcini Mushrooms

Every now and then a recipe comes along that is perfect. Simple, straightforward, and SO delicious that you want to make it again the very next day. That’s totally what happened to me when I

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Chicken Marsala

Chicken Marsala. Mushrooms and sauce with flavor galore! Marsala Wine makes a sweet but savory sauce that knocks this one out of the park. Marsala is a sweet wine from Italy from a family called

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Caprese Salad

I must be getting old. I seem to be having more and more of those “Remember when….” conversations lately. For example, let’s examine this lovely Caprese Salad or Insalata Caprese in Italian: Remember when  the

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Roasted Red Pepper Pasta

Roasted Red Bell Pepper Pasta. I’m on a bit of a roasted pepper kick lately. You’ll know this if you made Roasted Red Pepper Hummus a couple of weeks ago. For the hummus we used

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BLT Risotto

BLT – The World’s Best Sandwich meets Risotto. Bacon, Leek and Tomato Risotto. Oh yes I did. A few years ago there was in internet poll going around asking what one thing can be added

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