May 12
I love a good Alfredo sauce! Sometimes I am in the mood for the nouveaux version, which is cheesier than the traditional Alfredo which is just four, simple, ingredients. The real “alfredo” was invented by a chef named Alfredo di Lelio, in Rome, in the early 1900’s. He created it to help his poor wife who …
May 10
Parmigiana, short for Parmigiana di melanzane, is an Italian dish similar in someways to lasagne, but instead of pasta sheets, eggplant (aubergine) is used instead to form the layers. However since the original dish, people have used breaded veal or chicken cutlets instead. Confusingly the name Parmigiana di melanzane does not relate to the city …
Apr 28
I live in a lovely area of New Jersey that is absolutely nothing like Newark or The Jersey Shore. We have horse farms, alpaca farms, bee farms & even an ostrich farm. We have everything from full-fledged fruit & vegetable farms: with huge produce stands, to little tables & honor-boxes at the end of …
Apr 26
When I first told my mom that I had received a sausage making attachment for the Kitchen Aid, her first response was that I would have to make Uncle Nicky’s Pork and Provolone Sausages. My response was “Do you have the recipe?” There was no recipe, just the memories of my mother and her cousins …
Apr 15
The steps required to make a pasta sauce with Italian sausage is much simpler then you realize. There are two requirements: Marinara Sauce and Italian Sausage. One way to prepare this Italian Sausage (Sweet or Hot) with Marinara is to brown (pan / pot fry) sliced raw sausage in the pot that you will use …
