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I was in Santa Monica last week but I’m back!:) The weather was beautiful and it’s so nice to see olive trees. There’s something special about the olive, with it’s silver looking leaves and the way it flutters in the wind. It’s timeless. Saturday night, E and I had dinner in the dark….. as I’m [...] One last look at the Easter goodies until next year. I asked mom why we only made some of these delicious treats during Easter…. and she explained that they couldn’t afford to do it all the time when she was growing up in Calabria and they also took advantage of certain ingredients such as pork [...] It’s Easter weekend and that means there’s lots of Italian treats around. One of my favorites is fraguni. We made our fraguni yesterday, so I wanted to share the recipe and some photos with you. I want to start with an example of the diversity of Italian cooking from region to region and town to town. [...] Robin at My Melange tagged me for a meme yesterday, which is new to “meme” but seems like fun. Here are the rules. {I’m updating this meme because I also got tagged by Sally at Casalba News recently and since I already posted this one… I figured: 1 stone…. 2 birds, you get the [...] It was E’s birthday yesterday and it was a great reason to have a few treats from my sister and brother-in-law’s bakery (as if we need a reason:) Antonio (Tony), my brother-in-law came to the US from Bracigliano (SA) when he was 16. Along with his brother Bruno, they make lots of amazing [...] The best part of making salumi is all the recipes that go along with it. One of my favorite dishes is “Polpette di salsiccia e ricotta.” It’s a fairly simple dish but loaded with Mmmmmmmm. Since we just made it the other day, I figured I would post this recipe for [...] If you ever get the chance to experience “the day of the pig” in Italy (mostly southern Italy), I would highly recommend it. It’s not officially called “the day of the pig,” I actually just made that up but many Southern Italian families, my nonni and zii included, will raise a pig each year for [...] There’s always talk about what Americans miss most about living abroad. There’s the usual items like peanut butter, diet coke (not coca-cola light), Dr. Pepper (don’t know how anyone can drink that stuff) and other American favorites but how about when you move back to the States and can’t find some of those Italian specialties?? [...] Growing up and to this day, my siblings and I are often asked (like most Italian-Americans) why our pasta is so good. Our non-Italian friends could never get the same “goodness” at their own house. The answer was a simple, “we’re Italian.” and it sort of ended there. Fast forward to college where my [...] |
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