Fried ricotta clouds dusted with sugar to celebrate Carnevale here in Italy.
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Here we have slow-cooked greens turned silky once they spend a bit of time sizzling in a bit of olive oil, all the while taking on the spicy, sharp flavor of the garlic balanced nicely by the mild, creamy white beans and jolted awake with a little hot pepper. Served with a little bread and potatoes or sausage on the side, it will be your favorite new favorite week night meal.
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Here we've got chicken cooked crisp on the outside and juicy on the inside, ultra flavor-packed after a long simmer in a bath of wine, rosemary, sage, and garlic, livened up with a handful or two of briny green olives as a finishing touch.
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A lovely, fragrant, fluffy lemon cake perfect for snack, tea, or dessert.
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Red Wine Chocolate Truffles, a Valentine’s Day treat that are far better than a bouquet of thorny roses or a bottle of potentially-cloying perfume, and they hands down put any box of store-bought chocolates to shame. But I think I had you at "Red Wine Chocolate Truffles" anyways, didn't I?
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Fresh tonnarelli, dressed to the nines in a luscious, cheese-y sauce whose richness is interrupted only by the underlying heat of the black pepper. A dish of this will transport you directly to the Eternal City, guaranteed.
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Kicking off 2017 with a trip to one of my favorite cities in the whole world.
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Sticky Toffee Pudding consists of a cake that is soft and fluffy and just barely sweet, tinged with a caramel-y date flavor, and, while good on its own, reaches its full potential when it meets is soulmate, or rather, an intensely buttery and brown sugary, served-warm-off-the-stove toffee sauce, that is so good, I could've eaten the whole pot of it with a spoon.
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A salad that is a whole party of textures, flavors, and colors that would put the usual pile of iceberg lettuce to shame: here we've got paper-thin, super crisp anise-flavored fennel, sweet juicy oranges, buttery, crunchy pine nuts, sharp, biting red onion, and salty rich olives, served over a bed of leafy greens, tossed with a splash of fruity olive oil and sunny orange juice.
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Homemade granola bars made wit just 5 ingredients — incredibly easy to make and so much better than storebought.
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Positively addictive, crunchy, crispy, redolent of olive oil and wine — these homemade taralli are my very favorite snack.
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A delicious, festive Christmas or New Year’s Eve dessert to make use of leftover panettone.
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Spending the holidays in my home state!
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Bread dumplings hailing from the North of Italy, light and fluffy and, jam-packed with gooey melt-y cheese, salty rich speck, and sunny bright parsley, divine when served with a spoonful or two or three of toasty sage brown butter.
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A deeply spicey, ginger-y cake divine when paired with a dollop of cold freshly whipped cream and warm, caramelized pears.
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Brownie Cookies, for when you can’t decide whether or not you want a chocolate chip cookie or a brownie..
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A long weekend in the way north of Italy!
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A perfect edible Christmas gift — a slice of this packs a deeply chocolate-y punch thanks to the combined forces of cocoa powder and melted chocolate, with a smooth fudginess interrupted only by crunchy pieces of cookie, sweetened slightly by a snowy dusting of powdered sugar over the top.
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Spicy, garlicky, slightly bitter greens — a Roman classic.
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