Tag: Garlic
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Slow-cooked Carrots (Carote di Bianca)
An amazing recipe for slow-cooked carrots! Bianca is my mother-in-law, who I’ve mentioned quite a few times before in various posts. Every so often she makes these wonderful carrots as a side dish…….I have to admit that it doesn’t happen that often as they take a long time to make and a lot of…
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How To Make Pesto alla Genovese At Home
How to make pesto alla genovese at home I just realized the Summer is fast coming to a close (though with the temperatures over 30 degrees here, it’s hard to imagine that Autumn is on its way), and before all the wonderful basil is gone for the year, I should write about…
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Juicy Orange Salad (Insalata di Arance) From Sicily
The orange salad you can’t ignore in Sicily When we were in Sicily, this salad was served up in every restaurant before we even looked at the menus. Deliciously sweet and tart at the same time, it gets you in the mood for the wonderful dishes that you’re about to enjoy. Is…
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Bistecche alla Pizzaiola (Beef Filets with Tomato Sauce)
A delicious meal in a hurry that the whole family loves Bistecche alla Pizzaiola are a great do in a hurry meal that almost everybody in the family will like (of course, unless they’re vegetarian, hate beef, or hate tomato, but you can’t please all of the people all of the time). I…
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Spaghetti con Aglio, Olio e Peperoncino
Yes, yes, I know….you’re looking at the photo of this dish, saying, “So what??? It looks like a plate of white spaghetti…..what’s the big deal, and why on earth are you putting this in front of me??” Well, that’s what I thought years ago when my husband, made it for me in the…
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Fava Bean Spread With Parmesan Shavings
Places that are hard to leave once you stay there a while Too many years ago, we lived in California in our pre-kid era and didn’t appreciate enough how easy it was to go out, like, whenever we felt like it to where-ever we wanted to go at the drop of a…
