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Tropea, located on the Tyrrhenian coast of Calabria has always been a favorite spot of mine… so when I visit, I often spend a day there. What’s not to love? With its crystal clear waters and historic town center, Tropea has a little something for everyone. Santa Maria dell’Isola stands watch over the city on the [...] I’m back from our trip to Calabria and trying my best to get back into the swing of things… hope you are all having a wonderful summer so far. I’m looking forward to sharing some stories, recipes and photos from the trip. The beauty of visiting family in Italy is getting back to your roots. In Calabria [...] Escarole is a favorite green in many Italian families. Some of the more popular ways to prepare escarole are in soup, with beans, and as a simple salad. The escarole in our garden has been ready for a few weeks now and we have been enjoying it to the fullest! One of my favorite ways [...] Ever since Linda from Ciao Chow Linda sent me some dried morel mushrooms that her brother found, I’ve been thinking about what to make with them. If you don’t know yet, I’m a huge fan of foraging for wild mushrooms. You can read about some other wild mushroom recipes here and here.
So I decided [...] In my last post on curing black olives I mentioned that I was making them 2 ways: sott’acqua (in a simple brine of salt and water) and al forno (oven dried black olives.) The black olives “sott’acqua” don’t take much maintenance… once you make your brine and drop them in it’s a waiting game. The dried [...] I hope everyone is having a great 2010 so far! I recently got back from San Francisco for work and had the pleasure of dinning at a great Italian restaurant called Incanto. What a treat! Owner Mark Pastore and Chef Chris Cosentino have something really special going on the left coast… (for the record, they’re both [...] Last year I posted on “Grispelle” and la Grispellissima festival that is held December 8th in Feroleto Antico, where my family is from in Calabria but I didn’t include a recipe… so here it is. My family makes a fried potato-dough with and without anchovies every year at Christmas time: We call them grispelle [...] A while back, I wrote a post about Gravy vs Sauce. For those of you not familiar with the GREAT DEBATE, many Italian Americans call their ragu or meat sauce – “Gravy.” In my family we don’t refer to it as Gravy but in many Italian American families they swear by the term.
In my [...] 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 [...] 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 [...] |
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