
My mom makes a wonderful Italian meal featuring pasta and beans, and it’s called pasta fazool. We kind of changed her recipe just a bit. Normally it’s a meatless dish, but since Kemal and I had some prosciutto in the fridge that needed to be eaten, we decided to add it to the soup to … [read more]

Focaccia is a popular Italian flat bread that’s dimpled and topped with olive oil and herbs. It’s quite versatile because changing herbs will change the flavor of the bread, making it highly adaptable from meal to meal. It can be topped with sage, rosemary, course sea salt, onions, garlic or olives. I topped mine with … [read more]

This Italian appetizer is rich, filling, and tasty like you wouldn’t believe. It’s basically a salad with meat, cheese, peppers, herbs, and olive oil. It’s not a “diet” type of salad by any means, but it definitely will give you a lot of energy on a cold winter day.
It can be eaten by itself, with … [read more]

Schiacciata (pronounced skee-ah-cha-tah) means “squashed” or “flattened” in Italian. Schiacciata bread is a classic flat bread from Tuscany, and this Tuscan flat bread can be made in a variety of ways. It can be made with roasted grapes on top. It can be stuffed with vegetables and meat, and it can also be topped … [read more]