Parmesan potatoes: an incredibly easy recipe that takes red potatoes up a notch and creates something wonderful with that magic ingredient, Parmesan cheese.
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Italian recipes
Ravioli with Walnuts and Rosemary
The sauce for this pasta recipe, ravioli with walnuts and rosemary, is so simple to make that you can quickly throw together the sauce in the time it takes for the pasta to cook. The dish is easy, easy, easy and takes no time to make!
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Pork Marsala
Orzo with Dried Cherries and Almonds
Orzo with dried cherries and almonds becomes a wonderful side dish for any kind of meat or roast. And it contains a secret ingredient: saffron.
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I Heart Marcella Hazan
Photo by Jane Arnold
Although Marcella Hazan passed away more than a year ago, and since my blog is fairly new, this is my first chance to pay tribute to this great lady. During the last quarter of the last century, it was Marcella who taught Americans how to cook simple, traditional Italian food.
I’ll set the stage when Marcella first came into my life. I was single and living in Los Angeles and could barely cook anything. I had about 5-6 index cards with some of my mother’s recipes and a cookbook she had recently sent me for my birthday, Betty Crocker’s Cookbook. This is the orange one with the three-hole punch pages and the pretty pictures. Pot roast, cheesecake, brownies, etc. Traditional Amercan fare. I still have it. I still like it.
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