Mmm, mmm good! Pasta Fagioli, a traditional Italian soup, is among the top three of my all-time favorite super-simple Italian dishes. The ingredients: These are pretty much the basics, and you can be somewhat flexible with them. For the beans, I prefer these small, white creamy beans from Goya, but you can use the larger […]
Winter Comfort Food
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Oct
Oct
This is the perfect soup for Sweater Weather. It is as delicious and satisfying as it is easy to make. This is one of Grandma’s recipes, unchanged for who-knows-how-long. Escarole and Bean Soup (Scarola e fagioli) 1 head escarole, trimmed and cut into 2-3″ strips 1 15-16 oz can Great Northern Beans or cannelini beans, […]
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May
May
Here’s the next recipe in my new series “Super Simple Italian”, a collection of first-dish pasta recipes inspired by the tasty meals that my mother-in-law served daily to her family. It is very easy to prepare and (if you like peas) it is simply delicious! Here are the main ingredients…and, of course, you’ll need plenty […]
My Italian-born mother-in-law is a wonderful cook. She has always made delicious “first-dish” pasta meals using relatively few basic ingredients and seasonings, and she has the gift of knowing how to blend these perfectly! On any given day, when faced with my favorite dilemma “what am I going to cook tonight”, my thoughts go directly […]
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Oct
Oct
On the last Monday of every month, you will find me rolling dice and shouting “luck, be a lady”! No. I don’t frequent the “craps tables” at Foxwoods or Mohegan Sun, but I do get together with friends for a fun-filled evening of BUNCO (an easy game of dice, played in rounds). There are 12 […]