Italian Beef Roast

Delicious for dinner, delicious as leftovers; doesn’t everyone love a simple roast beef? Served with cipollini onions and peas, this dish has an Italian flair.

Semi Sweet Chocolate Clusters with
Hazelnuts and Almonds

This chocolate candy brings back memories of the Bronx. I remember making large batches of these sweets and couldn't wait to share them with my neighbors. I look forward to making these irresistible sweets on holidays-like Easter and Christmas and especially Valentine's Day!

Zucchini Arugula Potato Frittata

Arugula is not only for salads, it enhances many dishes like pasta and great in omelets. A perfect fall omelet for those hurried nights when time is limited and potato eggs and arugula come to mind. Serve this frittata for lunch or dinner with Italian bread and wine.

Eggplant Parmigiana

Appetizer:
Black Figs & Procicutto

Sweet delicious figs, tempting prosciutto and seasoned fennel with olive oil and black pepper.

Stuffed Pork Tenderloin
with Porcini Mushrooms

Barbequed Pork Loin
with Onions and Peas

Lemon Taralle

Homemade orange flavored taralle baked then coated with
sweet and tangy lemon icing and colored confetti. Nestle one or two lemon tarelle next to your favorite coffee or tea. A perfect treat for the holidays.

Flavored Olive Oil

Bottled Flavored Olive Oil can decorate your kitchen counters and make wonderful gift ideas for an added feature to your holiday food gift basket.

Italian Vegetable Herb Stuffing

Simple garden vegetables combined with Italian squash cucuzza make this stuffing unique and delicious. Surprisingly full of flavor, each morsel will never taste the same. Make sure you serve this stuffing next to your Turkey this year.


Pork Tenderloin Stuffed with Broccoli Rabe


Roasted Red Bell Peppers

Delicious red roasted peppers flavored with garlic and extra virgin olive oil. The aroma and flavor of these peppers are ideal for your antipasto platter and make a tempting topping for your favorite sandwich.

Black Figs & Prosciutto

Sweet delicious figs, tempting prosciutto and seasoned fennel with olive oil and black pepper.

Italian Red Russet Potato Salad

Red russet potatoes seasoned with white scallion, celery, and gaeta olives. Add a fourth of July touch with red hot cherry slices.

Rigatoni with Sirloin

Hearty pasta with tasty sirloin strips, mushrooms and eggplant tossed in a crushed tomato sauce. Serve with a glass of your favorite wine to complete this meal.

Crab Arabiata

For that red, white and blue celebration begin this July 4th festivities with a hot and spicy spaghetti crab sauce,
Blue shell crab with red tangy sauce served with a chilled glass of white wine.

Spinach Pie

Using fresh flat leaf spinach with gaeta olives and fresh anchovies baked in a homemade seasoned herb dough. Healthy, appetizing, and the taste is heavenly

Traditonal Italian Sauce
(tomato sauce cooked with meats served over pasta)

Serve this rich delicious sauce over vour favonte pasta. Customarily made by Southern Italians on Sundays, and enjoyed again as "left overs" during the week with an alternate pasta. Using tender meats like braciola (beef cutlets) stuffed with basic seasonings perfumes the sauce. Frying the meatballs gently with assorted ground meats combined gives the sauce a spectacular flavor.

Drying Basil

You will find that dried basil will come in very handy when you are preparing many recipes such as assorted homemade breads, marinating vegetables, seasoning fish, chicken, meats, battering, added to broths, stuffings and more. What a delight to have this wonderful herb readily available throughout the year.

Steamed Turbo with Garden Vegetables

White, tender fresh turbo steamed in a red rich tomato puree sauce steamed with baby peas, string beans and capers. Light, healthy, appetizing and tasty.

Silverfish Rosemarina

Fresh from the waters, these tiny white fresh fish are simply delightful when they are fried into small size patties. Seasoned with herbs with hints of garlic make an exceptional and most unusual hot appetizer.

Ziti with Shrimps & Clams (Fra Diavolo)

Red tangy thick tomato sauce cooked with clams, mussels and shrimp and smothered in ziti pasta is the ultimate for satisfaction and flavor.

Castellane (Long Shells) With Ricotta

Fresh ricotta cheese and a quickly prepared marinara sauce topped on tossed pasta makes this dish ideal.

Basic Marinara Sauce

This simple sauce using red plum tomatoes and fresh green basil combined, creates an aroma that will perfume your kitchen.

Creamy Orzo

This pasta dish is quick, creamy and tasty.   Served in a warm bowl, it's a tempting sight.

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