Posts Tagged: Cooking

Super Simple Italian – Pasta Piselli (pasta with peas)

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 […]

Cooking Barefoot

I rarely buy cookbooks that do not contain the words cookies, cakes or dessert in the title but, while holiday shopping in Marshalls, I was lucky to find two Ina Garten cookbooks, The Barefoot Contessa Cookbook and Barefoot Contessa Back to Basics.  Knowing full well my history of buying cookbooks that remain unopened and collect […]

Bunco Beef Stew

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 […]