Category: Italian
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Chicken Alfredo over Pasta
When I originally started this blog, my thought was to keep a record of what I cooked, not just record new recipes. Last night’s dinner was “barely” cooking. As were sitting around with a nice bottle of Blackstone Cabernet that my friend had brought over discussing what to fix for dinner, pasta was high on…
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Pasta and Ricotta Cheese: Kids’ New Favorite
My girls love this little tiny round pasta I buy to make what we’ve nicknamed Frog’s Eye Soup. It’s basically just chicken broth, carrots, and little tiny pastas. Sometimes I buy the little alphabet pastas for fun, but usually I use this tiny little round one, called ancini di pepe. (By the way when I…
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Fried Dough / Sfingi
Also from an old Italian cookbook… Pizza Fritta says the cookbook but I think my ex MIL called it Sfingi. To me, they are like a raised doughnut without the hole. You can use any basic white bread dough. If you don’t have a favorite recipe, try the one below.
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Fried Cauliflower
I’ve been trying to find some ways to get more of a variety of vegetables into our diet. I know frying isn’t healthy, but if the oil is hot enough, the food doesn’t absorb too much. And the kids loved this! This was from an old Italian cookbook. I used half a cauliflower because I…
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Easy Alfredo Sauce
This easy alfredo sauce is good on plain pasta, raviolis or as part of a shrimp and pasta dish or vegetable and pasta.