Tag: Italian food

One-Skillet Creamy Cajun Chicken Pasta

Pasta comes in many appealing shapes and sizes, and one of the most delightful is Campanella. The pastas name in Italian means “Bellflowers.” The pasta is delicate with a sturdy shape. It has fluted, petal-like edges and a hollow center for capturing sauce. And that’s exactly what you need with this One-Skillet Creamy Cajun Chicken […]

One Skillet Tortellini With Pizza Sauce & Fontina

This One Skillet Tortellini With Pizza Sauce & Fontina is a delicious and easy to make weeknight meal that’s loaded with awesome pizza flavored sauce that your whole family will love. Everything is prepared in one skillet then put under the broiler to melt the Fontina cheese. It will taste as if you ordered out […]

Cashew Pesto Ravioli

A simple Italian inspired dinner, made with a fresh creamy cashew pesto sauce. The pesto sauce is creamy thanks to the buttery and mild salty sweet flavor of cashews. You’ll be amazed at the velvety texture of the pesto sauce achieved with raw cashews, heavy cream and the pasta water. Read More Here – The […]

Caprese Tomato Tower Salad

A classic but simple salad that can be found anywhere in Italy. But only the city of Capri can claim it as their culinary invention, the Caprese salad. No other salad could have more simplicity than the Caprese. It’s made with acidic tomatoes contrasted against slices of creamy mozzarella, the cinnamony herbal bite of fresh […]

Instant Pot Zuppa Toscana

When a Danish chef travels to Tuscany to sell his father’s business, he meets a local woman who inspires him to rethink his approach to life and love. That’s a description of the recent 2022 movie ‘Toscana.’ Zuppa Toscana is exactly that, a very hearty, rustic, savory and creamy Italian soup, that is loaded with […]

Baked Cheese Tortellini with Bacon Vegetables & A Rosemary Alfredo Sauce

Alfredo sauce has many faces. You can go the simple route, and make it with only three ingredients: butter, cream and Parmigiano Reggiano cheese. Or you can do it like Jamie Oliver did for Goldie Hawn and add egg, nutmeg, and truffle oil. You can also go the Olive Garden route, in which case you’ll […]

Orecchiette with Chorizo and Chickpeas

This Orecchiette pasta dish is almost a one-skillet meal, as you’ll need to cook the pasta in a separate cooking utensil. But the meal is finished altogether in a skillet and it’s ready in about 30 minutes. The spiciness of the Mexican chorizo is tempered by chickpeas with their mild, soft, creamy nutty but grainy […]

Italian Five Cheese Chicken Roll Ups

With little more than your favorite spaghetti sauce (we used a sauce made with cream and vodka – from the Whole Foods Market), cream cheese and a shredded Italian cheese blend, you can have yourself some chicken roll-ups. They are super easy to prepare. Here is what you will need: 2 oz. of cream cheese […]

Spaghetti Carbonara

Carbonara is a wildly popular dish throughout Italy and around the world. The dish is also subject to continuous tweaks by both chefs and home cooks alike. There are countless speculations as to the origin of the name Carbonara. Not knowing the origins of Carbonara has not stopped anyone from making it. The love for […]