Italian

Cucidati – Sicilian Fig Cookies

April 2, 2013
Cucidati

As each holiday approaches, I look forward to baking my favorite recipes of the season.  Being Italian, this means ricotta pie and a variety of special Italian cookies near and dear to my heart for Easter.  I’m not just Italian—I’m half Sicilian although, truth be told, if you are part Sicilian, that part rules!

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Pasta with White Clam Sauce

December 20, 2012

If you love shrimp scampi served over spaghetti, it’s a sure bet you’ll love spaghetti with white clam sauce or, as my Sicilian mother would say, spaghetti al vongole bianco.

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Olive Garden’s Tuscan Garlic Chicken

August 6, 2012

Did you know that Olive Garden has a lot of their recipes on their website?  There probably isn’t a more dangerous website for those who like to cook but are counting calories.  Butter, cream, and cheese are some of their most often included ingredients.  No wonder their meals taste so decadently good.  What’s not to [...]

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Shrimp Francesca

July 19, 2012

When I was first looking over this recipe for Shrimp Francesca, I wondered whether or not the dish would be worthy of the Italian version of my name.  Quite simply, it is.

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Pesto Spaghetti Squash

June 4, 2012

Last week, two of my colleagues came in to work and said that they each had, coincidentally, made spaghetti squash the night before.  Both of them talked enthusiastically about how really good it was, and it didn’t take long before several of us were talking about making it for a group lunch at work.

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Santa Fe Pizza

April 12, 2012

I have subscribed to Bon Appétit magazine for more years than I care to admit to and eagerly thumb through its pages each month.  Though I am expert at identifying recipes I know my family and I would like, every now and then I somehow miss one.  That was the case with this Santa Fe [...]

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Italian Sesame Seed Cookies

April 8, 2012

I’ve been trying to remember how old I was the first time I ever had a homemade chocolate chip cookie.  Hard as it is for me to believe now, I don’t remember having one until my first year of junior high school when we made them in home economics class.  I’ve certainly made up for [...]

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Mama Musto’s Meatballs

February 24, 2012

Those of you with a keen eye may have noted the lack of one basic recipe in my Italian offerings.  What is spaghetti without meatballs?  This recipe for my mother’s meatballs plugs up that hole.  Now, if only the hole in my heart were as easy to fill.  What…who… am I without my mom?

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Potato and Sausage Mini Frittatas

February 21, 2012

Sara and her boyfriend Luke came home for a visit last weekend; and, of course, that meant I’d be making some special meals.  These delicious mini frittatas made for a very special breakfast on Sunday.  They would make a lovely addition to a brunch as well since they can be served at room temperature (although [...]

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Mama Musto’s Lentil Soup

January 8, 2012

This lentil soup is one of many in my Sicilian mom’s arsenal of pasta e fagioli (pasta and beans) recipes.  Of course, if you’re Sicilian, you pronounce it “pasta fazool.”  It was one of my favorite soups growing up, the other being her version of Italian wedding soup.  How many 5-year-olds today can say that [...]

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