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A Roundup of Favorite Easy Summer Recipes – Podcast Episode 24

August 25, 2020

Lemon Lavender Cake is a luscious summer dessert that's great any time of day!

We’re just about ready to head into September so it’s time to share a roundup of Favorite Easy Summer Recipes that you can use once summer rolls around again! Michele Di Pietro and I talked about all our favorite easy summer recipes in this week’s podcast episode 24. What we look for in a summer recipe…

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Filed Under: Elements & Ingredients, Food & Wine, Podcast, Recipes, Recipes, Seasonal

Zucchini Parmesan and Prosciutto

August 8, 2020

Zucchini Parmesan & Prosciutto is it delicious and cheesy way to use summer zucchini from your garden

Zucchini Parmesan & Prosciutto is a deliciously gooey and cheesy dish that makes great use of all your summer garden zucchini. No frying or precooking needed! It’s not fair to call zucchini a weed but in many ways it acts like one in the garden. It self-propagates from year to year from any seeds left…

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Plum Tart

April 15, 2020

Freshly baked plum tart

It’s early spring but I’m already jumping ahead to the great summer fruit that’s soon to come. Plums are some of the first to appear – purple, red and yellow – and although they are delightful to eat on their own I especially love them in a plum tart. And we’re lucky to have our…

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Bread and Tomato Appetizer

August 31, 2019

Bread and Tomato Appetizer drizzled with olive oil

Bread and Tomato is just about the easiest and most delicious of all appetizers. If truth be told we have it just about every night while we prepare dinner, and often at lunchtime too. The key to preparing a delicious Bread and Tomato appetizer is simple: high quality ingredients! It sounds obvious, doesn’t it? Just…

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Filed Under: Course, Cuisine, Food in Rome, Recipes, Recipes, Seasonal

Tomato Ricotta Tart

August 1, 2016

Tomato Ricotta Tart is great for your abundance of garden tomatoes

It’s that delightful time of the year when our vegetable garden is exploding and yielding scrumptious produce in spades. We always plant lots of varieties of tomatoes; it’s the true staple in Italian cuisine and we won’t settle for anything but the best in the tomato department. Our favorite snack is bread, tomato and olive…

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Radiatori Pasta with Zucchini, Cherry Tomatoes, Ricotta & Fresh Mint

April 18, 2016

Radiatori pasta with ricotta, zucchini and tomatoes

Radiatori Pasta with Ricotta, Zucchini, Tomatoes & Mint   We’re moving into late spring and pasta dishes are already starting to take on a light and fresh twist. Not too terribly far south of Rome there are already some luscious tomatoes and tender zucchini available. And our mint plants are exploding with leaves, just begging…

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Delicious deep fried zucchini flowers

July 27, 2013

Garden fresh summer Zucchini

In our cooking classes students have the recipes in front of them, making various dishes, including how to clean and stuff zucchini flowers…without tearing the flowers. Students are always fascinated to see the difference between the male and female flowers and to realize that the anchovies in the stuffing are actually a lot tastier than…

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Curried Eggplant Soup

July 15, 2013

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…

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Linguine with Shrimp, Tomato and Zucchini

August 29, 2012

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  One of my favorite dishes that allows me to use the abundance of zucchini from my garden is Linguine with Shrimp, Tomato and Zucchini. It’s simple to make; follow your personal taste and instincts when making it. The potato ricer is a must for preparing this dish. You miss out on lots of flavor…

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Penne with Cherry Tomato Sauce & Fried Eggplant

July 7, 2012

Penne with Cherry Tomato Sauce & Fried Eggplant…this happens to be one of my all time favorite pasta dishes and when the garden is producing plenty of fresh tomatoes and eggplants it’s the time to go for it! The dish reminds me of the classic Sicilian dish, Pasta alla Norma. The main difference is that…

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