Great summer pasta recipes for delicious and easy summer entertaining or family meals: the top 19 summer pastas from Italian food influencers @mangiawithmichele and @flavorofitaly.Listen to our chat about summer pastas here: No-cook summer pasta recipes 1. Caprese pasta This summer pasta recipe is a classic and quintessentially Italian with its red, green and white...
Recipes
Eggplant Parmesan
Eggplant Parmesan is one of my favorite dishes, and one I make a lot when we have our summer garden.You can roast or grill the eggplant, but it doesn't yield the same flavor and texture satisfaction that frying does.Everyone has a different idea on how to prepare eggplant for frying: peel or not, salt & drain first,...
Delicious fried zucchini flowers
There's nothing more delicious than fried zucchini flowers. They’re a delicious appetizer and snack you can make all summer long, and each time you can vary the filling for your fried zucchini flowers. The 4 things you HAVE to get right when you make fried zucchini flowers with your garden produce. Don’t pick all the...
DOP Balsamic Vinegar: the Black Gold of Modena
If you’d like to experience DOP balsamic vinegar, known as the black gold of Modena, there’s no better way than to take a deep dive into one of the local family producers, or acetaia as they’re known in Italy: Acetaia Malagoli Daniele.Sofia Malagoli has taken the family acetaia to a whole new level and her...
Baked Fresh Anchovies with Herbed Breadcrumbs
I love this recipe for fresh baked anchovies with herbed bread crumbs. Garlic and capers add extra flavor and the peperoncino (chili pepper) adds just enough heat to elevate the recipe to simply delicious. Michael Pollan's Food Rules: An Eater’s Manual Michael Pollan has written a number of sensible and down to earth books about...
Vignarola
Vignarola is a celebration of spring and tastes just like spring in a dish. Prepare it at that magical moment when winter turns to spring and artichokes are still in season but you’re heralding the arrival of fresh spring peas and fava beans.Make this dish vegetarian or add some umami-rich pancetta or guanciale to the...
Yeast and Sourdough Starters
One of the unexpected consequences of the pandemic has been a surge in home bread-baking and sourdough starters, partly due to a shortage of bread and yeast in stores. Many people sheltering at home began creating their own yeast, or sourdough starters, for bread-baking. It was also a lovely way to spend time with family...
Spaghetti Carbonara with Artichoke Wedges
The inspiration for this Spaghetti Carbonara with Artichoke Wedges recipe came from the March 2021 issue of the Italian culinary magazine, Sale e Pepe. I tweaked it to fit my own taste and it’s absolutely delicious. The addition of artichokes to the recipe takes it to another delicious level by adding seasonal globe artichokes. It’s...
Ossobuco alla Milanese
Ossobuco alla Milanese is one of my favorite recipes. It’s a special and flavorful dish and one that I love to serve to guests. Make sure to purchase the veal shanks from a great butcher!Ossobuco is most often associated with Milan and the Lombardy region and dates back to the Middle Ages. To prepare it...
Dark Chocolate Cake: fudgy and simple
Dark Chocolate Cake: fudgy and simple! I’m constantly on the hunt for delicious, easy to prepare dark chocolate layer cake that uses ingredients you almost always have on hand. So far my favorite is the flourless Torta Caprese but it’s also nice to have a great recipe for a classic rich dark chocolate layer cake....
Miso Caramel Sauce
I’m someone who really loves my sweets, but I do love a salty, umami touch to desserts to elevate them to nirvana level. Case in point is this wonderful miso caramel sauce that’s divine drizzled warm on ice cream. Miso caramel sauce is super easy to make but you do have to exercise care in...
Taralli, delicious snack food from the Puglia region
Taralli are one of the most iconic foods from the Puglia region. Eat them any time of day as a delicious snack food (stuzzichini) or served as an antipasto with aperitivi. They are made either plain or with a variety of flavors like fennel seeds, hot chili pepper (peperoncino), or even sweet. The flavorings are...