Cucidati – Sicilian Fig Cookies
As each holiday approaches, I look forward to baking my favorite recipes of the season. Being Italian, this means ricotta pie and …
Pasta with White Clam Sauce
If you love shrimp scampi served over spaghetti, it’s a sure bet you’ll love spaghetti with white clam sauce or, as my …
Olive Garden’s Tuscan Garlic Chicken
Did you know that Olive Garden has a lot of their recipes on their website? There probably isn’t a more dangerous website …
Shrimp Francesca
When I was first looking over this recipe for Shrimp Francesca, I wondered whether or not the dish would be worthy of …
Pesto Spaghetti Squash
Last week, two of my colleagues came in to work and said that they each had, coincidentally, made spaghetti squash the night …
Santa Fe Pizza
I have subscribed to Bon Appétit magazine for more years than I care to admit to and eagerly thumb through its pages …
Italian Sesame Seed Cookies
I’ve been trying to remember how old I was the first time I ever had a homemade chocolate chip cookie. Hard as …
Mama Musto’s Meatballs
Those of you with a keen eye may have noted the lack of one basic recipe in my Italian offerings. What is …
Potato and Sausage Mini Frittatas
Sara and her boyfriend Luke came home for a visit last weekend; and, of course, that meant I’d be making some special …
Mama Musto’s Lentil Soup
This lentil soup is one of many in my Sicilian mom’s arsenal of pasta e fagioli (pasta and beans) recipes. Of course, …