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Fantastic Photo

Here’s a fantastic photo from Amy &Jonny at “We Are Never Full”their blog was one of the inspiration behind Fantastic Photos when I started it (read here.) The photo was taken on a weekday morning at 9am as they drank their morning “caffè”in Piazza Maggiore in Bologna.  This [...]

Cucuzzieli e Uova

The zucchini are starting to appear in the garden and one of our family favorites and easy-to-make recipes for this wonderful vegetable is something we call “cucuzzieli e uova”…which is also fun to say! (try saying it 3 times fast)

Cucuzzi are actually another type of squash but once the name sticks,there’s [...]

Stuff Italians Like

Italians like to make way too much food.  Have you ever been to an Italian wedding or baptism or holiday dinner or any Italian occasion where food is served…and left hungry?  My mother always worries that there won’t be enough food…

Me:What did you make?

Mom:I made some soup,a few [...]

Italian Green Bean Salad

I can fondly remember sitting with my mother and snapping the ends off green beans fresh from the garden when I was a kid,so yesterday when I was visiting my parent’s I picked the first green beans of the season and took them home,sat in the backyard and snapped away.

One of [...]

Chicken with Chicken

What’s better than chicken?  chicken with chicken!  The wild mushrooms have started popping up and we couldn’t be happier.  Chicken of the Woods is one of our favorite wild mushrooms and easy to spot with its shades of bright orange.  You can often find them nestled at the base of an oak tree.  We [...]

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