Thanks to all my readers and friends for helping me reach 50 Comments on my post, Q&A with ABC Italiano author Sonya Caruso! I ordered the 50 books Tuesday and they arrived today. With the help of Linda, Claudia, Marie and Barbara, I hope to get these books in the right hands and help some [...]
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 [...]
It was a small turn out for this year’s “Seven Fishes Feast” but that’s not going to stop us from making merry! We have some wonderful recipes, I’ll pull out some vino bianco and we’ll give everything a try.
Linda at “Ciao Chow Linda” has gotten this party started the right way… she posted [...]
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 [...]
First of all, I would like to thank Maryann from Finding la Dolce Vita for co-hosting the first “Seven Fishes Feast” along with Italyville. I know I’m not the only one who thinks she has a GREAT blog and equally GREAT personality. I would also like to thank the team at “Feast of the Seven [...]
I was talking to my “mamma” today.. just chating and she casually mentioned that she was going to Mohegan Sun this weekend. My mom’s not a gambler… so I was thinking my dad put her up to it. I was wrong. Her friend had an extra ticket to go see Toto Cutungo and offered it [...]
If you’re a regular reader of Italyville, you know that I’m passionate about true Italian brands and products. One of those products is ITALIAN extra virgin olive oil. I’m not talking about extra virgin olive oil that is brought into Italy from other countries to be mixed with Italian oil or simply bottled [...]
There’s nothing like roasted red peppers to add that extra flavor to a sandwich, as a side-dish, appetizer or in your favorite recipe. We usually roast red bell peppers but you can certainly roast green, yellow, orange… or any other color you like. Roasting red peppers has been an annual tradition in our family for [...]
Contrada Caluzzi is a small country road in the town of Feroleto Antico (CZ) in Calabria where my mother’s family is from. My brother, sisters and I spent many summer vacations and made lifetime memories there. Here’s a small window into summertime on Contrada Caluzzi.
Feroleto Antico 2008
If the rooster failed to wake us the dogs [...]
Today I’m looking for a little help from all the Italian and Expat bloggers living in Italy. As you may have experienced, it’s hard to find good, current Italian music in the US. So you can imagine how happy I was to join the iTunes revolution and get my fix of Italian music. Of course [...]