A rustic Southern Italian dish traditionally from Calabria, made of stewed peppers with tomatoes, onions and herbs, peperonata Calabrese showcases the beauty of peppers like no other dish. Lovely as a healthy vegetarian side dish scooped over a bed of creamy polenta, as an appetizer on top of ricotta bruschetta or as a main dish tossed together with your favorite short pasta, like rigatoni or pene. This is a really nostalgic dish for me as it reminds me of the man in the photo. So I make it often during pepper season, using a mix of colors and different heirloom tomato varieties. A healthy vegetarian peasant stew that just never gets old. There are different variations you can experiment with, I mostly stick to the more traditional recipe but crumble some goat cheese on top ... continue reading...
Quinoa and Lentil Salad Recipe with Lemon Chive Vinaigrette
Thank you Village Harvest for sponsoring this post. Every day Village Harvest is planting seeds of change and growing possibilities, one bag of goodness at a time. Something Better Starts Here! A tasty, easy and light quinoa lentil salad perfect for summer, loaded with nutrition and full of fresh flavors. Really lovely served warm or as a cold vegan dish with marinated roasted peppers on top ... continue reading...
Easy Pizza Margherita Recipe Video
How to make an easy, authentic pizza Margherita at home, from scratch with just a few simple ingredients and a pizza stone. Anyone can make this, I promise! Video below!Named after Queen Margherita of Italy as history tells us, Margherita pizza is meant to look like the Italian flag: Red, White and Green. The magic comes from the simplicity of the ingredients here: Red tomato sauce - I use ... continue reading...
Compound Garlic Chive Butter Recipe
How to make compound chive butter at home with fresh chives from the garden, garlic and chive flowers. A mixture of butter, herbs or spices, compound butter is a lovely condiment to many dishes.From a fresh piece of crusty bread to grilled steak, salmon, scallops, lobster, or stirred into a risotto or mashed potatoes, compound chive butter is nice to keep on hand in your refrigerator ... continue reading...
Zucchini Patties Recipe with Tzatziki Sauce
Easy and healthy zucchini patties, cakes, fritters or Cucuzze in Calabrian dialect, whatever you wanna call them really, made with shredded zucchini, panko bread crumbs, scallions and tzatziki sauce, then quickly crisped up in a hot cast iron skillet. Like crab cakes but without any crab! Okay you guys, so I'll be honest: the tzatziki sauce was already made so I figured I’d give my ... continue reading...
Pea Goat Cheese Risotto Recipe
An Italian classic, this creamy pea and goat cheese risotto with basil and lemon is sure to rock your taste buds as a side dish or main course. Extra creamy and lemony makes the perfect canvas to serve under some perfectly seared garlic scallops, prawns, garlic spinach and creamy poached eggs, even roasted salmon or chicken. The peas are the sweetest this time of year and they just ... continue reading...
Artichoke Lemon Risotto Recipe
A summery artichoke risotto or Risotto ai Carciofi, with bright notes of zesty lemon, creamy parmesan, perfumed thyme and fresh basil. There just had to be a risotto in the works with the marinated artichoke hearts from the other day. There is so much wonderful flavor happening from the lemon and thyme marinade, I can't even describe it. I used both some butter and the classic ... continue reading...
Spinach Artichoke Pizza Bianca Recipe – Grilled
The best summery Pizza Bianca with ricotta, spinach and marinated artichoke hearts on thin and crispy crust quickly grilled on my cast iron griddle skillet. Pizza Bianca meaning White pizza originally from Naples, basically a pizza without any tomato sauce, but you can add fresh tomatoes as a topping if you prefer. In this recipe I used the marinated artichoke hearts from the other ... continue reading...
Marinated Artichoke Hearts Recipe
Easy and good for you marinated artichoke hearts that taste like summer with a lemony twist. Gluten free and paleo, marinated the Italian way with healthy extra virgin olive oil, fresh lemon juice, herbs and a touch of garlic. You can choose to steam your own artichokes if they are in season, or go for the canned artichoke hearts in water. Very important that they are packed in water and ... continue reading...
Sun Dried Tomato Pesto Steak Recipe
Disclosure: this post and giveaway is sponsored by SABER Grills - For the Love of Food! Quick and easy Italian sun dried tomato pesto with basil and garlic, drizzled over perfectly grilled steak with pistachios and fresh herbs.Because grilling season is officially here you guys. It was so hot today you can actually swim in the pool and not even be cold!And who wants to heat up their ... continue reading...
