As I mentioned in my recent post about Italian food, some of the best recipes come from Italian creativity when times are tough (la cucina povera) in southern Italy that was pretty much all the time… well, times are tough everywhere! but don’t let that stop you from making delicious Italian food. Pasta Pie or pizza [...]
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On a clear day as the sun sets into the Tyrrhenian Sea on the west coast of Calabria…. you get a truly beautiful sunset and a great look at the volcano – Stromboli. Stromboli is still very active and had it’s last major eruption August 2, 2008 (according to wikipedia) but is said to be in [...] The question is, what is Italian food? I continuously see commercials for large chain restaurants that promote their pizza or pasta or panini or whatever “they think” Italian food is and how they have conquered it… finally!! The ones that irk me the most recently are from Pizza Hut. One commercial shows how they go to [...]
Here’s a great photo of my friend Paul’s family. He has a wonderful tribute to his father (pictured center) at his blog, Remembering Paul Valvo. Hope you are all remembering your mothers today as well! Happy Mothers day!
Click on the photo [...] In March I was in Calabria visiting my family and did a little wild asparagus hunting with my cousin… if you’ve read some of my posts, you know I like to forage for “wild things” so yesterday when E and I were out on a hike with Dexter (our Italian Labrador…. you mean you didn’t know [...] |
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