Recipes

Buon Natale

December 24, 2012

Dear Friends, I want to thank you all for reading, and especially for sticking with me in what turned out to be an off-kilter year ~ starting with that bizarre kitchen injury last January. I feel like I spent the rest of 2012 trying to catch up but always three steps behind. I hope you’ll [...]

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Dicembre Dolce: Panna Cotta alle Spezie

December 12, 2012

Raise your hand if… * yours is always the last house on the cul de sac to put up holiday lights. * you have yet to buy ~ let alone decorate ~ a tree. * the only batch of Christmas cookies you baked is long gone and you have yet to bake more. * haven’t [...]

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Dicembre Dolce: Cherry Republic Biscotti

December 2, 2012

There is more than one way to slice biscotti. There are at least sixty. Or there will be when I’m through with them. Which is a roundabout way of saying I’ve just started work on a new book project. Subject: Biscotti. It won’t be an exhaustive project ~ just a fun little homage to one [...]

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A Love Child at the Thanksgiving Table

November 18, 2012

I recently posted this Instagram photo of something new (to me) called Kaleidoscope sprouts. I discovered that lots of others had never heard of them either. My friend Colleen commented, “My two favorite veggies had a love child?” That is exactly what happened. Kaleidoscope sprouts, also known as flower sprouts, are a clever cross between [...]

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Happy Anniversary!

November 14, 2012

Today marks 20 years I’ve been married….to the same guy! Here we are in Puglia this past summer. Wishing you all a beautiful day, and I promise to start posting again soon. – Domenica

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Waiting for Fall’s Gold Rush

October 17, 2012

Honeycrisp may be the apple of the moment, but the apple of my eye is the GoldRush, a late-maturing variety that isn’t ready to pick until the end of October. Bright yellow, lightly speckled, with a deep rose—almost russet—blush, GoldRush is one gorgeous apple. Its ivory-colored flesh is firm and dense—so dense that when I [...]

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Nose-to-Tail Fennel

October 8, 2012

Fennel is a generous vegetable. It graces the table in spring and early summer, where it keeps company with asparagus and baby onions, and then again in fall, when it cozies up to eggplant and peppers, then apples and winter squash. In supermarkets I often see bulbs of fennel tightly wrapped in plastic, their stalks [...]

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Hello, Tomato Season…

August 23, 2012

Right now, across the country, farmers’ market stalls are teeming with tomatoes. Fat, lopsided heirlooms, green-striped zebras, shiny round cherries, and plump Romas among them. When it’s tomato season I eat them every day. Every day. I make tomato salad, with or without mozzarella. I put them on pizza and poke them into focaccia. I [...]

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Q & A with Giuliano Hazan and a Recipe for Cold Minestrone with Rice

July 3, 2012

I feel a certain kinship with Giuliano Hazan. I do not have a famous cookbook author for a mother. But Marcella Hazan and my mom are contemporaries, both born and raised in pre-World War II Italy. And while Marcella Hazan is from Emilia-Romagna and my mother from Abruzzo, both grew up in communities along [...]

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Strawberry-Apricot Pie

June 20, 2012

I hope they have health food in Dublin and strawberry apricot pie If they don’t have those things in Dublin we’ll probably die For years—decades—I have wanted to make this pie. Strawberry-apricot pie. Ever since I first heard those three words strung together in the song “The Troubles” by The Roches. This was back in 1979 or [...]

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