the big JC wasn’t the only one resurrected this Easter — little a is back, too!
hope everyone is enjoying the start of spring! with a tupperware full of Mom’s Easter cookies and a thrift-store find-of-the-century (an embroidered scene of The Last Supper), mine is off to a good start.
my contribution to the Easter dessert table this year was a ricotta cheesecake. this recipe, from The Sopranos Family Cookbook, combines the cool creaminess of the ricotta with a healthy dose of citrus flavor and doesn’t fuss with a crust. the result is a lighter, more refreshing dessert option than a traditional cheesecake; perfect for after my fifth slice of ham, third slice of grandma’s meat-and-cheese-filled pizza rustica, and fourth cookie.
if you don’t have this cookbook, you can borrow one of the ten copies of it i received the Christmas it came out, or you can find the recipe here. it tastes better cold, right-out-of-the-fridge the day after and/or if you eat it while watching The Sopranos, but, really, what italian dish doesn’t?
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Welcome back little a. Love the recipe and got a real kick out of the flea market find. My mom had one of those JC last supper pictures in her dining room.
thanks, lisa! this one’s going over the kitchen table. hopefully the first in a collection…