Category Archives: Summer
white lasagna with zucchini
LASAGNA BIANCA ALLE ZUCCHINE. You are looking for a zucchini recipe, are you? Are you getting weekly gifts of zucchini from your gardening friends? What should you do with it? Everybody is looking for a zucchini recipe at this time … Continue reading
grilled lemon-and-garlic marinated eggplants
I think nobody who doesn’t know me already is ever going to find this recipe. There’s 1 million and 970 thousand hits for “grilled eggplants” on Google. With more than 2 million people out there who can grill eggplants this … Continue reading
Filed under Recipes, Summer, Vegetables
potato gateau
SAVORY POTATO PIE a.k.a. GATO’ DI PATATE. There are moments I so miss my mother presenting one of her meals with that special look in her eyes. She had it when she knew she had made something really delicious. She … Continue reading
Filed under Appetizers, Fall, Potatoes, Recipes, Spring, Summer, Vegetables
pasta alla puttanesca
PUTTANESCA aka THE WHORE’S SAUCE. With a name like this you can only expect something spectacular. There are several metropolitan legends that try to explain the peculiar name. The one that makes more sense to me refers to prostitutes not … Continue reading
potato gnocchi
Potato gnocchi for me are the symbol of selfless love. My mother made the best gnocchi, but she did not eat them, not even one. After all that work she would just have a plate of simple spaghetti while we … Continue reading
