Tuesday, August 24th, 2010
This is my version of Rachel Ray’s, “You won’t be single for long vodka cream pasta.” In my version, I added Italian sausage, because my man, or any man I would have interest in, couldn’t be won over with a solely vegetarian dish. The first dinner I made for my husband wasn’t this vodka cream [...]
Tuesday, August 3rd, 2010
This is an easy homemade spinach and artichoke pizza you’ll be sure to love if you like the dip. I made a white sauce with red onions and garlic, instead of a traditional red sauce. We make pizza almost every week, and I have been trying to think of some different variations I haven’t made [...]
Tuesday, June 8th, 2010
This past weekend we went to my favorite Sushi restaurant here in Orlando, Fuji Sushi. Fuji’s is our favorite sushi restaurant in town; the only sushi I have had better is Nobu in New York City. But I don’t include atmosphere in my opinion, this restaurant is in an old drive through restaurant, so it [...]
Tuesday, June 1st, 2010
Spaghetti and meatballs, its so good and perfect for kids as well as adults. I am one of the few people that didn’t grow up enjoying spaghetti and meatballs as a kid though. My mom and grandmother always just cooked spaghetti bolognese. I didn’t even make meatballs until I was about 25. The first recipe [...]
Tuesday, April 6th, 2010
This is an easy recipe for spinach basil pesto bow tie pasta. I created a spinach pesto to add some more nutrition to a classic pesto. I saw a version of this recipe on a show I discovered on PBS, ChefClass. ChefClass is a very informative cooking show that “takes viewers inside The International Culinary [...]
Thursday, March 11th, 2010
Delicious chicken parmesan, this is one of our go to easy comfort food dinners. I make this dish in the same basic method that I use for my eggplant parmesan. I fry the chicken, and then add the sauce. This was actually the first time, after much begging, that I found San Marzano tomatoes in [...]
Thursday, February 18th, 2010
This is an easy recipe for eggplant parmesan. I serve it either with pasta or another vegetable. I love eggplant, it is nutritious and makes a great vegetarian meal. I cook vegetarian at least once a week, and also for my vegetarian father-in-law when he visits. I do not pre-soak or pre-salt the eggplant. I [...]
Tuesday, January 26th, 2010
This is a quick and easy weeknight meal for Italian sausage and pepper pasta. I used red and green bell peppers in this dish, but I also make this dish with Cubanelle peppers. Cubanelle peppers have a wonderful sweet taste. They are a little pricier, but well worth it. Make sure that you use Italian [...]
Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009
This is a delicious recipe for the classic Italian dish of red wine risotto. The rice isn’t exactly red, its more of a dark brown, but don’t worry, if you want red risotto, I will be posting that recipe soon. Its a roasted red beet risotto, which is one of my all time favorites. Now [...]
Saturday, September 26th, 2009
Chicken Piccata is one of my favorite Italian dishes. The salty little capers that burst in your mouth are so wonderful paired with the zesty lemon. I have a secret ingredient that gives another layer to traditional piccata, white pepper. The addition of the mild white pepper makes this piccata irresistible. I like to make [...]
Tuesday, September 22nd, 2009
I added spinach and tomato to orzo to create a colorful and flavorful side dish. The orzo is lightly browned first in butter and a little garlic. The browned butter gives this dish an addicting flavor you will love. When I was a kid, our pastas consisted of spaghetti and macaroni and cheese. It wasn’t [...]
Wednesday, August 19th, 2009
This is a super easy manicotti dish that is fast and simple. I sliced a piece out of the baking dish so that you could easily see the filling. The filling is a spinach, ricotta, and Italian cheese blend. The sauce is a delicious vegetable marinara sauce. This is a great hearty vegetarian dish. This dish is [...]
Saturday, August 15th, 2009
This is a very simply chicken marsala with portobello mushrooms. When you make chicken marsala, make sure to spend a little more on the wine, it will make a world of difference. Do not buy the marsala cooking wine in the part of the grocery store where the generic cooking wines are located. Make sure [...]
Thursday, June 25th, 2009
A classic carbonara is made with delicious prosciutto and parmesan. However, carbonara is classically a frugal dish in Italy, and prosciutto is pretty expensive in the States. So, I was trying to reinvent this as a frugal American dish, and trying to combine my husband’s Italian heritage, and my Southern. This dish married the two [...]
Sunday, June 14th, 2009
Every Friday, or every other Friday is pizza day at our house. Not take out or any of that frozen stuff, I take the time to make everything from scratch. It really makes a difference, especially when you take the time to prepare the dough the day before. This pizza was a result of cleaning [...]
Monday, June 8th, 2009
This is an old favorite of my family. My husband first came up with the idea of ham, pineapple and jalapeno peppers when he was working in a Pizza Hut in high school. He made this pizza for the Sunday lunch buffet. It was a big hit. I convinced his later to change from jalapeno [...]
Friday, June 5th, 2009
This was my first attempt at spaghetti squash. It came out really delicious. The fresh ingredients are definitely the key. I did not even do any research into the spaghetti squash, except for how to cook it, before diving into this recipe, and I was pleasantly surprised at how good it came out. Initially I [...]
Thursday, May 28th, 2009
This is one of my recipes I came up with on the fly. When the day has been hectic, chasing my toddler around and running errands, I will quickly defrost some chicken breasts under running water, and make it up as I go along. Sometimes these recipes aren’t the greatest because I am missing an [...]
Wednesday, May 27th, 2009
I have tried many many recipes over the years until I perfected this spaghetti recipe. The secret I have found to really good sauce is the quality of the tomatoes that you use. Always use the best quality Italian tomatoes, or your sauce will suffer. San Marzano are the very best. I can not always [...]
Tuesday, May 26th, 2009
I use to make chicken Marsala just as a meat dish, with sides, but I loved the sauce so much I wondered what the best way was to enjoy more of the delicious sauce, so I just cut up the chicken and added pasta. Now this is my favorite way to do chicken Marsala. I [...]
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