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 [...]
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Do you ever have those days where you think: What are we going to cook for dinner? You need to go grocery shopping, you didn’t take anything out of the freezer and you really don’t want to make anything that takes too much effort. Spaghetti alla Carbonara is the perfect dish for such an occasion! I haven’t [...] Italian kids around the world have grown up with these tiny juice bottles (125ml/4.2 oz) I can remember going to the “bar” with my father and the barista would bring my father an espresso and me a “succo di frutta.” I always asked for it in the bottle because it was fun to drink out of. [...] 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 [...] When my parents were growing up in Calabria, they didn’t have much and when it came to cooking, nothing went to waste… especially since they grew up in large families (mom is one of 8 and dad is one of 6.) Many of the foods and recipes that they made came with them to the US [...] 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 [...]
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 a [...] It’s that wonderful time of the year again! We had our first snow here in New England this past weekend with more on the way tonight, which always helps me get into the Holiday Spirit. Christmas Eve is only a few weeks away, so we need to start planning for a wonderful Feast! My [...] |
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