Gorgonzola Sauce
This sauce was great. It was very easy to put together and it had a wonderful flavor. I started with a creamy gorgonzola that we sell at our store. Marcella is very clear that the quality of the cheese is … Continue reading →
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Cream and Butter Sauce
Oh my people – do your hear your arteries clenching? Cream, butter, cheese? Oh my! This is Marcella’s version of the classic ‘Roman’ sauce: Alfredo. We’ve all had Alfredo sauce. We’ve all seen it in small plastic containers in the … Continue reading →
Borro Oro e Salvia
This week’s challenge for Pomodori e Vino is ‘Borro Oro e Salvia’ ~Golden Butter and Sage~ Doesn’t that just sound like a pinch of heaven? I have some lovely sage in the garden. This recipe couldn’t be simpler. First you … Continue reading →
Butter and Parmesan Cheese Sauce
Today’s pasta is a very simple, but delicious one. I know that many of us have been calling some of the pasta sauces comfort food, and that’s what this one was to me. Marcella says that this sauce has been … Continue reading →
Baked Pasta con le Sarde with Toasted Almonds
There is a lot going on with this recipe. It has more ingredients than my previous sauces. I got to use fennel from my own garden, which was fun. The layers of flavor are intriguing – anchovies, raisins, pine nuts, … Continue reading →
Sicilian Sardine Sauce
This week’s ingredient list is eclectic. The star ingredient is sardines which I will admit I was less than enthusiastic about. Fennel tops, raisins, onion, anchovy fillets, pine nuts, saffron, tomato paste, and bread crumbs round out the supporting ingredients. … Continue reading →
Fish Sauce
Well, we all have a recipe on our list that we are not looking forward to making. This week was mine. It is fish sauce made from whole fish heads. I had a bad experience in college when I was … Continue reading →
Scallop Sauce with Olive Oil, Garlic and Hot Pepper
I have been home from Italy for four days, and am still in a food coma from my three weeks in Bologna. I have been cooking amazing pasta dishes from Emilia-Romagna to give my husband a taste of what he … Continue reading →
Sardinian Botarga Sauce
This recipe had a really special aspect to it. Early on, I realized that, not only would I be in Venice to make it(I would never have been able to find Botarga in Tallahassee) but that Sandi would be there, … Continue reading →
White Clam Sauce
I’m so happy cooking my way through Marcella Hazan’s Essentials of Classic Italian Cooking. And I’m also happy that I’m still cooking pastas-my favorite. I was very happy to see that one of the recipes I get to cook is … Continue reading →
Tuna Sauce with Tomatoes and Garlic
I’ve never prepared a pasta sauce with tuna. Not because it doesn’t sound good. Rather, because it just never occurred to me that you should. Considering the amount of tuna noodle casserole I served my husband during our poor college … Continue reading →
Black Truffle Sauce
Truffles are highly prized fungi that grow underground near the roots of trees (usually oak but also hazel, beech and a few others). Harvested in Italy and France with the help of trained dogs, they are one of the most … Continue reading →
Pesto with Ricotta
I was so glad that the timing of this recipe worked out to correspond with my first basil harvest of the year. Over the years I have given up growing anything except some herbs. Now, I have basil, rosemary, thyme, … Continue reading →
Pasta and Pesto with Potatoes and Green Beans
I’m cooking ahead here – because I am in Rome baby! Forgive me while I get a tad excited . . . Anyway. Back on track (for now). A few weeks ago Paul made a recipe by Jamie Oliver that … Continue reading →
Pesto~ by the motar method
Don’t y’all just love it when timing is just perfect? It doesn’t happen often in life. This week’s recipe from ‘Essentials of Italian Cooking’ came at the perfect time. I was in Montisi with a garden FULL of fresh Italian … Continue reading →