One of the most delicious Moroccan dishes is Chicken Tagine with Preserved Lemons. It's wonderful because the tagine cooking technique yields a tender and flavorful chicken, while the preserved lemons add a tangy touch to the dish. To cook with a tagine you place all of the ingredients inside the tagine at the same time, cover...
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Panettone French Toast
It happens to be the last holiday of the season here in Italy...the Befana...so I feel compelled to add a little festivity to the day and that usually means a food treat. So we're starting the day off with some Panettone French toast which, as they say in Italian, è la morte sua (its best...
Glazed Cinnamon Rolls
Glazed Cinnamon Rolls When I was still a young girl, somewhere between seven and nine years old, my passion was already cooking. If our parents went out for the evening I’d pull out a cookbook (that my mother never used, by the way) and pick out a recipe to make. It was my only opportunity...
Corn bread and muffins
Corn bread and muffins are one of my favorite accompaniments to a meal, at breakfast, or anytime. I love them slathered with butter and drizzled with honey, or just on their own. Corn bread and muffins took on a new dimension several years ago when I began using a mill attachment for my KitchenAid. I...
Apple Pie
Apple Pie Apple pie is at the very top of my comfort food list. Add a scoop of ice cream or, better yet, a drizzling of fresh cream and it moves a step higher into culinary nirvana. Apple pie is delicious year-round and is dead easy to make. Have a question or want to leave...
Banana Nutella Bread
If you love rich banana flavor and a dessert that's full of chocolatey flavor then Banana Nutella Bread is the dessert for you! And you can also make Banana Nutella Muffins, just reduce the baking time. It just so happens that chocolate and banana are a heavenly match; the addition of Nutella takes this banana...
Oven Roasted Brussels Sprouts
It's winter vegetable season again and Oven Roadted Brussels sprouts are one of my favorites! There are many wonderful ways to prepare them but they all stem around some variety of roasting which gives them their nutty, delicious flavor. Boiling and steaming are a no-no as this brings out a metallic, unpleasant flavor. Stick with...
Caramel Walnut Torte
This gooey and delicious torte recipe explodes with fresh Italian walnuts! Italian walnuts are in their prime right now; tender and delicious. And it just so happens that we have a huge walnut tree growing right on our property. We pick some underripe walnuts in June to make nocino, an Italian liqueur usually served at Christmas. We pick the...
Lemon Ricotta Pancakes with Fresh Berries
Lemon Ricotta Pancakes! Pancakes, even when they're as fluffy as can be, take a back seat to these lemon ricotta pancakes. Fluffy isn't even the word I'd use; these are delightfully creamy. The lemon zest shines through beautifully, and of course you can't go wrong smothering these masterpieces with honey and fresh berries. They're sinfully...
Preserved Lemons
I first tried preserved lemons last spring in San Francisco and loved them immediately. What attracted me to preserved lemons was finally having a new recipe to help me use the dozens upon dozens of lemons our trees produce every year. I love limoncello, who doesn't, but we make it every year. I'm always racking my brain to come up...
Curried Eggplant Soup
Every summer my garden reaches the point where it's so prolific that I can hardly keep up with it. I'm at that point of explosion right now. One of my favorite vegetables is eggplant; it has fabulous texture and flavor. It's beautiful: from its deep purples to striated violet varieties; and round to thin and...
Ginger Carrot Cake
Carrot cake is a universally loved cake by all. Carrot cake, zucchini bread or other desserts made from vegetables are not typically Italian, but once they taste these sweets they become instant converts.I'm in a ginger phase right now: I'm drinking ginger tisanas, making ginger scones, cookies and cakes. And I've always loved Thai and...
