Rustic Italian Sausage Recipe My Italian grandmother emigrated from Italy in the very early 1900’s. She was from a little town in Puglia called San Paolo di Civitate. My sister found a cookbook called “Puglia, A Culinary Memoir” and sent it to me as a present. I found this Rustic Italian Sausage Recipe and […]
Chicken Fillets with Lemon and Parsley You can find the original of this Chicken fillets with Lemon and Parsley in Essentials of Italian Cooking by Marcella Hazan. Some of the recipes in the book seem just too simple and easy to be true and this sure is one of them. But, like all the […]
Chicken Murphy Growing up in Northern New Jersey, and as a part of the process wandering over to lower Manhattan and Brooklyn, I enjoyed Chicken Murphy in lots of different Italian restaurants and Italian friends homes, done lots of different ways. This is the best. Our mom was a working mom. Our neighbor, Nan […]
Friday Night Fish Dinner When I was a preschool kid back in New Jersey we had an Italian neighbor called Nan Papparella. Nan used to look after my sister and I while our mom was at work. She had a big boxer dog called Baron that loved and protected us. And, slobbered our faces. When […]