Honeymoon Ravioli
Nutella Bread for Dessert or for Breakfast!
Learn to Make Fresh Pasta (with a video!)
Easy Italian Pulled Pork
Tips for Homemade Marinara Sauce
Breakfast Fruit Walkaway is a family favorite
A Delicious Vegetarian Dish: Pasta alla Norma
Love knitting? Come read my knitting blog, Italian Dish Knits.
Chocolate Zucchini Cake
Eating Our Way Through the Amalfi Coast
Make Whipped Cream Firm
My Favorite Chocolate Cake Recipe
Eggplant Lasagna
Lemon Cake from Capri
Cacio e Pepe
Learn to Make Arancini
Learn How to Make Artisan Bread with no Kneading for Pennies
Thanks, Mom!
Strawberry Cheesecake Parfaits Require No Baking
Make Pie Dough in 60 Seconds!
Make Your Own Vanilla Extract
My Five Inexpensive Kitchen Essentials
Beet Ravioli with Goat Cheese
January 29, 2012 
Pasta Making Class
I will be holding an evening pasta making class on Friday, March 9th at my home. Come join the fun and learn how to make fresh pasta!
Please click on the "Cooking Classes" tab in my navigation bar above for the details.
Space is limited.
January 16, 2012 
Pomegranates have become so popular - they're delicious and healthy. But they can be a pain to deseed, squirting juice everywhere and making a mess. I'll show you how to easily clean a pomegranate and get all those seeds out.
I'm going to be posting a lot of pasta dishes this winter, so I thought I would give you a nice refreshing, light salad first! The key to making a great salad is two things: 1) make your own dressing and 2) only lightly dress the greens. Salad dressing shouldn't weigh down a salad - it should just lightly coat it. The greens and the fruit or vegetables should be the star. The salad should be refreshing, not a soggy mess.
January 2, 2012 
Well, the holidays are over and what a whirlwind it was. And so much fun. My brothers and their families came to visit and I did a ton of cooking for that, including an enormous batch of chicken ragu, which I smartly froze ahead of time. That was a timesaver. I made big pork loins stuffed with one of my favorite stuffings. I also made Jamie's Peanut Butter Parfaits which were a big hit. We decorated Oreo cookies and I made Cranberry Upside Down Cake. It was all a lot of fun.
I also got to reveal something that I had kept a bit of a secret all year. I started a knitting blog last spring but did not talk about it at all here because I couldn't let my family know about it. In March, I started a big project to knit something for every person in my family by Christmas. I ended up knitting 17 projects for everyone. What a thrill it was to finally present them to everyone during their visit. It was hours of knitting and thousands of stitches and lots of tinking, but a whole lot of love knitted into every item.
