Tag: Italian

Daring Bakers: Cannoli

The November 2009 Daring Bakers Challenge was chosen and hosted by Lisa Michele of Parsley, Sage, Desserts and Line Drives. She chose the Italian Pastry, Cannolo (Cannoli is plural), using the cookbooks Lidia's Italian-American Kitchen by Lidia Matticchio Bastianich and...

Sweet Potato Ravioli with Browned Butter

Our first winter CSA share was potatoes, potatoes, potatoes. Ok, there were plenty of other things too, but I'm not kidding about the potatoes: russet, fingerling and sweet. What to do with such autumnal bounty? Something rich and warming, perhaps?...

Pasta Cabonara

I have always loved pasta carbona, starting back when my mom made it with bacon and a cooked egg and cheese sauce (remember, foodies, that this was during the Salmonella scare, a movement that had a much larger effect...

Homemade Pasta

With my first try at making homemade pasta, one thing was immediately clear: pasta-making is the epitome of "easy to learn, hard to master." I used the instructions from Marcella Hazan's Essentials of Classic Italian Cooking, a book I...