Summer Feast. Menu and Recipes
Summer Feast
I can finally come up for air after my granddaughter’s magical wedding.
Last…
Chicken Piccata Recipe.
Chicken Piccata
This delightful Italian dish showcases a few of my favorite bold and bright flavors: lemon, white wine, capers and parsley. With this flavor lineup, you just can’t miss.
It is made with chicken or veal cutlets (I never…
Pasta Bolognese Recipe. Cabbage Noodles Variation
Pasta Bolognese
The lazy-but-health-minded cook's gastronomic dream actualized.
Deconstructed Pasta and Meatballs. To parody Mark Twain, Pasta Bolognese and Sloppy Joe are nothing but spaghetti and meatballs with a college education. You…
Caprese Salad Recipe. Main Course Variations
Caprese Salad
This delightful salad heralds spring as surely and as exuberantly as Forsythia and Daffodils
We all love its intoxicating fragrances and bright Italian Red-White-and-Green Flag colors. In spring and summer the…
Italian Ricotta Almond Tart Recipe. Gluten-Free Friendly!
This Ricotta Almond Tart was just created!
I developed it expressly to showcase the new and delicious Fresh & Healthy Ricotta: So excited!
Ricotta Almond Tart is a great Italian classic dessert favorite, and this is my take on it.…
Cheese Latkas Recipe. Gluten-Free-Friendly
Cheese latkas make the best dessert!
I have my mother-in-law to thank for turning me on to cheese latkas, and indeed all latkas, which she used to whip up anytime we tugged at her heartstrings, Chanukkah or not, and often for a light lunch,…
Pasta Tuna Sauce Recipe. Gluten-Free Friendly
Pasta Tuna Sauce: as funky as it gets!
If it is true that opposites attract, no dish would bear this out better than this Pasta Tuna Sauce with Fennel.
Tuna and Fennel: yum!
Besides, my pasta with tuna sauce is a whole new and fun way…
Pesto Sauce Recipe. All Variations
Pesto
The great classic wears many exciting hats. It is traditionally based on most often based on basil, olive oil, and toasted walnuts. Be sure to check out my sun-dried tomato pesto as well!
We have seen it pesto recast endlessly…
Caesar’s Salad Recipe. Caesar’s Dressing
Caesar's Salad
That’s one simple salad that never goes out of fashion! If caesar’s salad was eclipsed by a new salad on the block, however briefly, I missed that!
Casesar’s Salad: Queen or King?
The queen of salads, albeit with…
Vegan Mock Zabaglione Recipe
Zabaglione is great, but can err on the rich side!
I haven't had the authentic Zablaglione, the luscious Italian whipped egg-yolk-sugar-and-port cream classic dessert, since one day I got sick from -and ashamed of- splurging on it. But even…
MilleFeuille with Mock Zabaglione and Berries Recipe
Millefeuille is the easiest dessert ever, and so much fun, and delicious!
MilleFeuille is a fun name that literally means a thousand leaves in French, because the puff pastry separates into lots of paper-thin sheets during baking. You can make…
Risotto Recipe. Arborio and all Variations
Risotto is our high-maintenance kitchen friend:
It demands constant attention because the liquids is added in stages. The good news, though, risotto is very versatile and can easily make a complete meal; besides, the cooking doesn’t take…