Posts tagged traditional cooking
How To Tuesday: Ravioli

Everyone loves ravioli.  Delicious little pockets of pasta filled with creamy cheese and laced with sauce or butter are hard to resist.  You can find them in the freezer section of any grocery store.  What you may not know; is that with a little time and patience, you can make them from scratch. 

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Sunday Supper: Sunday Sauce

The sauce for this dish provides a lovely topping to pasta and the ‘bath’ for the meatballs to simmer in.  Once the meatballs are removed, the sauce carries the aroma of the meat and tastes wonderful on pasta.  The meatballs should be served along side the pasta, NOT on top, as that is the true Italian way.

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Everyone has a "Nonna"

So many of the recipes you will find here are from women that cook the food of their homeland, every night for their kids, grandkids, in-laws, stray dogs - anyone that is hungry.  They are recipes that fill the belly and warm the heart because the women that make them stir love into every, single bite.

 

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