Category: Italian
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Provolone Turnovers aka Pardulas
These provolone turnovers from Lidia Cooks from the Heart of Italy: A Feast of 175 Regional Recipes made a fantastic dessert, drizzled with a bit of honey I picked up at the farmer’s market. (And I swear it tastes way better than stuff from the grocer’s.) I’ve been watching her shows on television and this…
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Pizza and Sauce Cooking Class
On Saturday night I had offered to teach a few women how to make pizza. I mixed up some pizza dough early so it would be ready to roll out into pizzas a while after they got here. We started by mixing up another smaller batch of pizza dough and I let them each knead…
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Calzones with Fresh Tomato Sauce
Youngest texted me from school the other day asking if we could have calzones for dinner. I haven’t made them in ages somehow! I had everything I needed but the ricotta cheese so picked that up when I was out running other errands. You could do without of course. Sometimes I just make them with…
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Jamie Oliver’s Pizza Dough (4 pizzas)
I picked up Jamie Oliver’s older book, The Naked Chef, and found a recipe for pizza dough I really like. It makes 4 medium sized pizzas but I’ve been doing as he suggests and prebaking the extras for 5 minutes, then freezing. Makes it very easy to pull out a pizza shell, top it and…
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Summer Marinara Sauce for Eggplant & Zucchini Parmesan
The two of us living here right now LOVE Eggplant Parmesan and I usually do something similar to this eggplant Parmesan recipe. I’ve also made zucchini Parmesan. The first time I made that by just frying the zucchini but not breading them first and it definitely lacked a little something, although it was still good.…