Category: Italian
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Baked Ziti with Meat Sauce
I’ve been going through my freezer trying to use up the odds and ends and ran into half a pound of ground beef cooked with peppers and onions. I thought it would go well in a pasta sauce so quickly cooked up some marinara (from canned tomatoes) and added the meat to simmer for a…
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Pasta with Fresh Lemon and Cream Sauce
A few nights ago I happened to watch an episode of Lidia’s Italy (on PBS) and she made pasta and this cream sauce with fresh lemons. I had everything I needed so that became dinner. The recipe is also in Lidia Cooks from the Heart of Italy: A Feast of 175 Regional Recipes. A year…
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Pasta with Fresh Tomatoes, Onions and Cheese
This recipe for Pasta with Fresh Tomatoes, Onions and Cheese is such a flexible “recipe” — I love it! All you REALLY need are fresh tomatoes and some kind of cheese and pasta. My original inspiration from this came from Don’t Eat Your Heart Out Cookbook. (That’s an affiliate link. I’ll make a small bit…
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Lidia’s Italy in America
Last night I tried a new recipe for Italian Wedding Soup, adapted from Lidia’s Italy in America. In the past, I’ve made it with chicken broth and used pre-cooked meatballs. I was worried that this version, with water instead of broth, might be a bit bland but the girls and I loved it. The long…
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Vegetable Soup aka Zuppa di Verdure all’Agliata
This is another recipe from Lidia Cooks from the Heart of Italy: A Feast of 175 Regional Recipes. (see my earlier Provolone Turnovers) Except I followed this recipe much less. For one, I used turkey broth rather than water because I had this delicious turkey broth to use up. But I also was NOT going…