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Occhipinti Ricotta Filled Ravioli with Norma Sauce
Have you dreamed of visiting Sicily? One way we like to experience places from home is by making authentic recipes and drinking regional wines. If you’re dreaming of an escape to Sicily, find some eggplants, ricotta, and flour, and try your hand at making Baglioni Occhipinti‘s Sicilian Ricotta Filled Ravioli with Norma Sauce. This... Continue Reading
Easy Shepherd’s Pie
Have you been craving cozy comfort food lately? We certainly have, especially on cool rainy days. We used leftover mashed potatoes to make our Shepherd’s pie in one pan. Brown the meat, sautée the veggies, top it with fluffy mashed potatoes, and then send the pan straight into the oven until the top... Continue Reading
Italian Sausage and Pepper Orecchiette Pasta
This recipe is a super easy pasta. We had a few links of sausage left in the fridge, as well as a few fresh Italian peppers, so we decided to make a quick weeknight pasta with it. You can use a spicy Italian sausage (what we had) or a sweet fennel sausage. Whatever you... Continue Reading
Handmixed Yeasted Focaccia
Since we’re spending so much time at home now, we’ve finally have time to work on things we’ve wanted to do for so long, like learn how to bake bread. Baking has become one of our preferred ways to relax and calm nerves – rather than fixating on the news. It’s also amazing... Continue Reading
Dante’s White Negroni
You’ve probably heard of a classic Negroni or even a Sbagliato (mistaken Negroni) but have you tried a white Negroni? The Negroni Bianco, or White Negroni, is one of the most popular cocktails on the menu at Dante in New York City. Dante has an extensive Negroni menu. Most of them are batched, or made ahead... Continue Reading
Italian Shrimp Pasta with Cherry Tomatoes
If you loved our Bucatini Pasta Fish recipe, inspired by our time in Italy, you’ll love this shrimp pasta! It’s very similar, but uses shrimp instead of fish. Frozen shrimp can be found most everywhere in North America. Growing up in Florida, I took it for granted that we could always find fresh shrimp. Now that we live in California, we typically have a big bag in the freezer of individually quick frozen shrimp on hand, unless it’s prawn season - then we'll substitute huge, head-on live prawns!
Simple Orange Cake
We’ve been watching one of our favorite Italian chefs, Massimo Bottura and his family, who started an Instagram Live series called Kitchen Quarantine cooking from their home. It’s entertaining and educational. Bottura made his friend, Jean Francois Piege’s orange cake recipe for dessert this week. He topped it with vanilla whipped cream, blueberries, and strawberries. We decided to... Continue Reading
