recipes

Winter’s Bones

February 6, 2013

(Pardon the excessive typography on the pics in this post. As if I didn’t have enough distractions, I uploaded an iPhone app called Over, which allows you to play around with text and fonts. I couldn’t resist.) * * * * * The stockpots and soup tureens in my house have been getting a workout [...]

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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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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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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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Confettura di Prugne {Plum Jam}

June 17, 2012

I have a giving tree. It’s the plum tree in my side yard, the one I pass every day as I back out of and pull into the garage; the one with overgrown branches that I have to duck under every time I open the gate to take the dog for a walk; the one [...]

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Sage Advice

June 8, 2012

The other day I received a large, lovely bouquet, not of flowers but of sage, which is much nicer in my opinion. The gift was from my good friend (and—lucky me—next-door neighbor) Anne, who happened to be thinning out her herb garden and had more sage than she knew what to do with. I was [...]

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Frances Mayes’s Tuscan Table

March 15, 2012

Virtually everyone who has traveled to Italy can describe a moment in which they were transported by food—whether a platter of plump, cheese-filled ravioli bathed in butter and sage; a silky, paper-thin slice of prosciutto draped over a warm puff of fried dough; a glossy cone of hand-dipped gelato. For Frances Mayes, author of the [...]

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Zuppa di Zucca Gialla {Winter Squash Soup}

November 13, 2011

Photo by Maren Caruso from Williams-Sonoma Rustic Italian (Weldon Owen) I resisted including a recipe for winter squash soup in The Glorious Soups and Stews of Italy. It seemed to me that there were already more than enough to go around, and one of my aims for the book was to shine a light on lesser [...]

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Ciao, Rustic Italian!

October 30, 2011

Meet my latest cookbook, Williams-Sonoma Rustic Italian: Simple, Authentic Recipes for Everyday Cooking. It has just hit the shelves at Williams-Sonoma stores, and will be available on Amazon as of December 6. Among other things, the book has one of those hip, cushioned, jacket-less covers that we’ve been seeing more of lately (aesthetically pleasing but [...]

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