Pizza regina margherita
In 1889, Regina Margherita, queen of Italy, was offered a pizza containing the colors of the Italian flag. Pizza maker Raffaele Esposito topped the pizza with tomatoes, mozzarella, and basil...
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Pizza margherita
Here is the queen of pizzas, now more than one hundred years old. This original Neapolitan pizza is made without the addition of cherry tomatoes. It’s the simplicity and quality...
Simple pizza sauce
As you can see from the ingredient list, everything about this recipe depends on the quality of the tomatoes. The preferred tomatoes, from the famed San Marzano region of Naples, are deep...
Neapolitan pizza dough
This is Roberto Caporuscio’s recipe for Neapolitan pizza dough. Diane worked side by side with Roberto, learning the finer points of making these pizzas and this dough. Although she tried to duplicate this...
Fettuccine in bianco with white asparagus asiago and cream
One fall day, I came across a beautiful display of white asparagus at a local food market. Because they were in season, they were priced well, and so I bought a bunch,...
Pasta and chickpea soup
This soup has saved me countless times when I’ve been short on time (or ideas) and needed to get a nourishing dinner on the table quickly. Chickpeas, also known as garbanzo beans,...
Ditalini and cannellini bean soup with escarole
Escarole is a popular ingredient in Italian soups, This pale green, curly leaf member of the chicory family is bitter like radicchio when raw. But like its scarlet cousin, escarole loses...
Minestra di pasta e piselli
Soups are always a good way to introduce children to vegetables, and this one is no exception. When my kids were little, I used to put them to work shelling the peas...
Cappelletti in homemade meat broth
Bite-size stuffed pasta hats are simmered in homemade broth and served, piping hot, with a generous shower of freshly grated cheese. This is my family’s traditional first course on Christmas Eve. Making...
Fluffy semolina dumpling soup
Some old fashioned recipes deserve to be revived and appreciated anew. This is one of them. Made from a batter of semolina, milk, eggs, and cheese and poached in chicken broth, these...
Grated spinach pasta soup
Pasta grattata (grated pasta) is a clever way to enjoy the taste of homemade pasta without having to roll out and shape the dough. Instead, you grate the fresh dough against the large holes of a box grater. This version offers a colorful (and healthful) twist: grated...
Basic white cake
This recipe is very similar to the recipe of the basic yellow cake; in fact with only a slight variation, you can prepare both these cakes with same recipe. Ingredients: 2...
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