Thanksgiving alla Florentina

Hot Off The Press – the Ciao Florentina Food Magazine

November 30, 2011

I hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving celebration and enjoyed the time with your loved ones.  Thank you from the bottom of my heart for stopping by CiaoFlorentina.com to find some inspiration for your holiday menus. I’ve been a real busy bee putting together the ” Ciao Florentina Magazine ” project and I am [...]

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Holiday Truffle Roasted Chicken Recipe

November 22, 2011
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Around this time of year I think about my grandfather a lot.  I think about the times when our family shared one small chicken for our Sunday dinner, yet somehow it seemed that we had more than enough.  I miss the times when after a long day in the fields he would come home and [...]

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Blueberry and Ricotta Muffins Recipe

November 20, 2010
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” When I am in trouble, eating is the only thing that consoles me…. At the present moment I am eating muffins because I am unhappy. Besides, I am particularly fond of muffins ” -Oscar Wilde Browsing through this journal you probably figured out by now that I am not much of a baker. But [...]

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Roasted Eggplant Dip Recipe or Salata de Vinete

November 17, 2010
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With all the bloggers busy busy working on yet another turkey recipe, I decided to give you an appetizer, because let’s be honest: you need to munch on something while you smell that turkey cooking in the oven. I don’t know many people that get excited about eggplants, including myself, unless I say eggplant dip. [...]

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Chive and Sour Cream Biscuit Recipe

November 12, 2010
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With less than two weeks away from Thanksgiving Day, I can’t help but wonder what your menu looks like… Besides the bird we all have a couple of special things we make, or someone else makes that we are really looking forward to this time of year. Is it grandma’s apple pie or mom’s sugar cookies [...]

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Roasted Butternut Squash and Apple Soup

October 26, 2010
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Oh, Butternut Squash ! A sweet fruit with a nutty taste and orange flesh that grows on a vine, one of my favorite winter delicacies next to blood oranges. In Italy, one of the most popular ways to use butternut squash is is in a risotto, which is gonna be next on my menu for [...]

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Chocolate Covered Orange Slices Treats

October 24, 2010
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Juicy and sweet, oranges are one of the most popular fruits in the world. I love oranges, they remind me of Christmas and how my mom used to throw the peels in the fire to make the house smell good. I’ve gone a little bit orange crazy this week, starting with my Blood Orange Cranberry [...]

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Blood Orange, Cranberry & Ricotta Muffins

October 18, 2010
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” Do you know the land where lemons bloom and grow, where amidst the dark foliage the golden oranges glow ? “ -Goethe Blood oranges, with their beautiful crimson colored flesh are a mutation of sweet orange and they constitute more than three-quarters of Sicily’s orange production. They are a winter fruit native to Sicily [...]

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Blood Orange Cranberry Sauce Recipe

October 18, 2010
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As little kids walking to the fields with our grandpa, we would pass by dozens of cranberry bushes on the side of the road. We always stuffed our pockets with them and have cranberry fights along the way. As I matured I stopped using cranberries to hit my brother and started using them in muffins [...]

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Refreshing Calamari Salad

September 16, 2010
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It was a nice summer for me with plenty of sunny days laying by the pool watching the palm trees swaying in the wind, and  the big hawk teaching her babies how to fly. I love a hot lazy summer day and some refreshing treats.  And as much as I love the idea of eating [...]

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