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Cooking with Sopressata - Spaghetti alla Carbonara

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 [...]

Pasta con Pollo e Funghi

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 [...]

Prince Spaghetti Day

If you have never been to Boston’s North End, you’re missing one of the great “little Italys” in the US. NY’s little Italy has more or less vanished and been gobbled up by China Town but Boston still has an authentic Italian American neighborhood and population in the North End.

Since I’m on the topic of [...]

Brand Italy – Barilla

Happy June!
Last week was a crazy week! I helped my brother move out of his house and into his new house, so there was plenty of catching up to do on the work front when I got back, which is why I haven’t posted much.

Last night we had some friends over for dinner and when I [...]

This or That

Growing up and to this day, my siblings and I are often asked (like most Italian-Americans) why our pasta is so good. Our non-Italian friends could never get the same “goodness” at their own house. The answer was a simple, “we’re Italian.” and it sort of ended there. Fast forward to college where my [...]