Baked Whole Sardines in a Vinegar Sauce – An Easy Recipe for Cooking Fresh Sardines Fresh sardines are a staple food along the Mediterennean coast in southern Italy.   A favorite preparation includes cleaning, gutting, and washing the sardines well followed by a quick dusting of standard flour or chickpea flour.  Thereafter, the whole sardines are pan fried and quickly […]

Gilt Taste – An article entitled “how to make rockin risotto” documents the process of making rice in the Italian style, though the author goes overboard suggesting you use a diagram to note the doneness of the rice and use whipped cream to give the rice a light and airy consistency (our view: you don’t need the whipped cream if […]

  The very best pasta recipes are centered on minimal, high quality, ingredients with superb preparation.  Take the pasta recipe for rigatoni with zucchini, mushrooms, and red onion and you’ll experience a perfect, and synchronous, marriage of starchy pasta with earthy mushroom and grassy zucchini.  Add a dash of Italian anchovy sauce, high quality extra virgin olive oil, and freshly grated […]

  The Prickly Pears, or Fichi d’India,  of Calabria  I’ve traveled to Calabria on many occasions (both as a child and adult) and the landscape continually amazes me.  The startling changes in elevation, for example, travelling on the numerous, via Nazionale,  switchbacks from Bagnara Calabra on the coast to Pellegrina in the hills is mind blowing.   And One’s line of vision is intersected […]

My wife surprised our family with baked Italian donuts a few weeks ago and we were thrilled with our early morning treats, so much so that we’re going to abandon our local bakery! The recipe below doesn’t include ricotta (to give it that Italian twist) but it can certainly be added, but you’ll need to adjust the other ingredients.    You […]