A Palermo Style Italian Steak Recipe or Bistecche alla Palermitana. A perfectly grilled rib-eye steak topped with a salty crunchy mixture of garlicky capers over a bed of wine broiled tomatoes. Finally I got the Italian Steak of your dreams! I’m serious, been meaning to post this since we got back from Sicily, because duhh, Palermo-Style Italian Steak is a thing around there ! First let me just say: I miss Palermo, the poster child for the perfection of imperfection, we really had a thing ...
Quick Italian Recipes
Banana Bread Cake
An easy, to die for banana bread cake filled with creamy Mascarpone cheese and covered in a silky lemon glaze! Ok, so Is it banana bread or cake ? What's the difference? Well, it is a cake like banana bread technically. Like a bread but way better. Like the best banana bread cake I’ve ever made, because on top of the moist ricotta cheese dough, it also has little pockets of Mascarpone cheese all throughout. Killer! And just because it is the holiday season, I also whipped up a ...
Squid Ink Linguine and Clams Recipe
The linguine and clams recipe you need in your life: squid Ink linguine pasta in a garlic and herb white wine sauce Sicilian style. Insane! I’ve been waiting since Sicily to share this linguine and clam sauce recipe with you! Because I just had to have the wild baby clams in here and that was the hold up. Extra garlicky in a white wine clam and lemon sauce, please don’t fight over this you guys. For my entire Sicily travel adventure this summer, I ate some variation of this dish like ...
Healthy Green Pea Soup Recipe with Leeks
A simple and healthy homemade green pea soup made with frozen peas and lots of flavorful leeks, chive oil and served with a poached egg. This healthy leek soup recipe is my gift to us: the leek and green pea lovers! By all means feel free to use fresh peas here If you have them, I figure most people probably just have the organic frozen bags in the back of their freezer handy at all times, which makes this recipe very convenient. Without ham and ham hock you guys, because ...
Sicilian Pistachio Pesto Recipe
An authentic Sicilian Pistachio Pesto brought to you straight from Sicily! Today I bring to you a Sicilian Pistachio Pesto all the way from Sicily. I have been dying to share with you my Sicilian spaghetti vongole recipe, made with the squid ink linguine I managed to bring home in one piece, but I found myself without any wild baby clams. Panic all around ! All summer long I can count on Costco to bring me the best wild clams, but yesterday they let me down. Nothing. I won’t even go into ...
11 Goat Cheese Log Recipe Ideas
11 Epic Ways to Dress Up a Goat Cheese Log! From cranberries to chocolate, pistachio and chives, these goat cheese logs are sure to steal the show! Please don’t hate, but this week has been all about discovering goat cheese log recipe ideas. Because everyone loves a cheese board, and how can you have a cheese board without the incredible goat cheese log display, right ?! Impossible! Yes, you can buy some gourmet goat cheese logs at the store, but they won’t be anything like what you can ...
Vegetarian Kale Soup Recipe
A healthy, good for you, easy vegetarian kale soup that is loaded with nutrition and pureed into a smooth bowl of goodness! Simply replace the dairy with coconut cream and keep it vegan If you prefer. Supernatural spinach, kale, a zucchini for texture, together with a bunch of herbs and a little kick from green chili peppers make this simply perfect! Feel free to add a cup of cooked quinoa at the end to make it more of a hearty stew. I suspect this recipe is going to be on rotation at the ...
Mushroom Bruschetta Appetizer Recipe
Mushroom Bruschetta, a true rustic Italian appetizer of garlic bread topped with wild mushrooms cooked in white wine! This wild mushroom bruschetta appetizer was first mentioned when I wrote the about Florentina page, here on Ciao Florentina. That’s where I first talked about my grandpa who would plop me on the back seat of his old rusty bike after the rain, and we would go search for wild mushrooms. So we could make this exact mushroom bruschetta. I call it an appetizer, but for us it was the ...
Burrata Bruschetta Recipe
Heavenly Burrata Bruschetta with Oven Roasted Cherry Tomatoes on Crusty Italian Garlic Bread ! Let’s talk about real burrata bruschetta! The rustic grilled piece of garlic bread that would be my last meal on Planet Earth, If I was asked that question. Unless I said that about some other meal on here, in which case I take that one back; unless of course I said the rustic chicken stew over creamy polenta..I probably did, didn’t I…? So let me just add this burrata bruschetta to that to make ...
Garlic Clams Recipe
The easiest and tastiest Garlic Clams Recipe. Small wild clams sauteed with olive oil, garlic & lots of fresh citrus juice served with garlic bruschetta to soak up all the amazing juices. The las time I ordered a bucket of garlic clams was a couple of weeks ago at a seafood restaurant in Kauai. It made me ask myself, why don't I make garlic clams at home more often ...? They are really easy to throw together and extremely fast. Plus we love garlic clams at the shack. So I decided I was ...