DeCecco Racchette Pasta with Mint and Pancetta
Enjoy a refreshing Spring lunch with this lemony mint pasta featuring pancetta and crispy sugar snap peas, using DeCecco’s unique Racchette.
Seasonal, Adventurous Home Cooking
Pasta & Grains
Quick Chicken Cutlets with Tomato Caper Sauce
Discover this quick and tasty chicken cutlet recipe, featuring a zesty sauce with tomatoes, capers, and lemon. Perfect with buttered noodles!
Asian Dumplings with Pork, Ginger, and Scallions
These delicious dumplings, filled with ginger, scallions, and garlic, are easy and fun to make, especially at a gathering. While creating the pleats may seem daunting, it’s a perfect activity for friends. They reheat well and taste far better than store-bought. Thinner Shanghai-style wrappers yield excellent results when pan-seared.
Classic Meatloaf with Ketchup-Brown Sugar Topping and Butter-Parmesan Egg Fettucine with Peas and Parsley
There are two kinds of people in this world- those who absolutely abhor even the thought of meatloaf and those who could easily slip it into their weekly rotation of dinner recipes, eating it for lunch the next day placed atop soft white bread that …
Creamy Italian Soup with Cheese Sacchetti, Bacon, and Fennel
It’s the most wonderful time of the year! That’s right… you guessed it. It’s Fall!! And I just made the most perfect soup to usher in these cooler Autumnal days. It is loaded with cheese-filled sacchetti, perfectly poached chicken, creamy broth, and tons of Italian …
Cucumber, Carrot, and Avocado Sushi Roll with Thai Sweet Chili Sauce
I was a tad apprehensive to try making sushi at home, having heard rumors that chefs trained for decades to become consummate professionals. Imagine my excitement when I found that making sushi at home is not quite as difficult as one would imagine. It’s far …
Macaroni and Cheese served with Spring Mix Salad with Lemon, Honey and Fresh Herb Vinaigrette
Macaroni and Cheese! How could a food blog be complete without my own spin on this classic recipe? I’ve been working for years trying to find the perfect combination of cheese and I think I’ve finally cracked the code. I use a combination of fontina, …
Spaghetti and Meatballs: Lemon Edition
This recipe is adapted from those wonderful people at Milk Street who bring the flavors of the Mediterranean into our own kitchens. Christopher Kimball has introduced me to a variety of new flavors and recipes including tasty sumac, eggah for breakfast and homemade pita bread. …
Lemon and Spice Marinated Chicken with Farfalline Pasta Salad and Roasted Fennel
This is a wonderful, well-rounded dinner for any night of the week! This is a quick recipe that serves two, but it can easily be doubled or tripled to serve the entire family. The Farfalline pasta salad is absolutely delicious. I make it on its …
Penne Alla Vodka Goes to Provence
Some days I get to wondering what would happen if a certain recipe went to a certain part of the globe. For example, what if my dad’s Penne alla Vodka recipe took a trip to Provence. It would probably encounter licorice-flavored fennel and juicy ripe …