This Spicy Cucumber Salad Recipe is really amazing. It has everything going for it including crunchy, sweet, acidic, nutty, and spicy flavors. Plus it's beautiful and so easy to make- a perfect side dish ready in just 20 minutes. A mere 7 ingredients and a couple simple techniques go a long way towards making the...
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Leftover Pasta Frittata Recipe
This Zucchini, Bean & Pasta Frittata Recipe is one of my favorite ways to use up leftover pasta. It's nutritious, hearty, and filling, making it a great recipe for meal prepping a week's worth of breakfasts on-the-go. Plus it's extremely customizable. You can substitute whatever vegetables, beans, and cooked pasta you have in your kitchen....
Fresh Tomato Spaghetti Sauce Recipe
This easy, 6-ingredient Fresh Tomato Spaghetti Sauce Recipe will transport you straight to Italy, or at the very least, New Jersey, where tomato season is a whole vibe. The Garden State really does grow some of the best fresh produce in the country, and juicy tomatoes play a huge role in our summer cooking. This...
Easy Blackberry Mojito Recipe
This easy, delicious blackberry mojito recipe has everything a summer cocktail should have. It's cold and refreshing and loaded with fresh ingredients, plus it's absolutely stunning, like most blackberry cocktails are. The best time of year to make any mojito is summertime, when the warm weather makes you crave ice cold fruity cocktails. In fact,...
Best Italian Tomato Salad (Recipe)
Like many other Italian Recipes, a simple tomato salad relies on delicious, quality ingredients and techniques to achieve the most flavor.
The Best Penne Pomodoro Recipe
The secret to making the best Penne al Pomodoro recipe lies in a few high quality ingredients and techniques.
Pastina with Cream and Sugar
Pastina, a word Italians use to describe any tine pasta shape, typically refers more specifically to star-shaped pasta here in the U.S. There are a few main styles of preparing pastina, which I talk about in my other 2 pastina recipes on this site, Pastina with Egg and Cheese, and Pastina Soup. The third way...
Pastina with Egg
Pastina with Egg and Cheese is the definition of comfort food. In fact, some people even refer to it as "Italian Penicillin." It's a soft food, but it's not boring. The egg gives it protein, the parmesan gives it real flavor, and a little butter gives it its silky smooth texture. It's very similar to...
Tomato and Mascarpone Risotto
This luscious Tomato and Mascarpone Risotto is easy to make and absolutely to die for. It relies on high quality ingredients and good technique to achieve the most flavor out of only 7 ingredients. Hot salted water is the best cooking liquid for this risotto, as it allows the fresh tomatoes and mascarpone to really...
Pink Sauce Pasta (Italian Pink Sauce)
Pink Sauce Pasta is a very popular Italian-American dish consisting of pasta (usually penne) and a simple pink tomato cream sauce. With just 7 ingredients, the tomato and garlic flavors really shine. Plus it's a quick sauce that only simmers for about 30 minutes. The flavors have just enough time to mingle while remaining bright...