The Secret Ingredient Is Always Love
Are you wondering what is a good dessert with pasta? Well how about taking fresh egg pasta and turning it into irresistible Sweet Crispy Pasta Nests! This sweet pasta dessert is deep fried till golden and then soaked in an orange infused honey syrup. As a finishing touch, you can top the honey soaked pasta…
Ciambella Italian Lemon Sponge Cake is a traditional Italian ring shaped cake. It’s so incredibly light with an airy fluffy crumb and infused with both the juice and zest of lemons. It makes for one very simple yet elegant dessert recipe. Italians are notoriously known for their dolci, or rather sweet treats. Especially those yummy…
This Gnocchi Soup with Butternut Squash and Kale is one big warm hug in a bowl. It’s a meatless soup chock full of cubed butternut squash, kale, tinned tomatoes, fennel, and mini potato gnocchi. Although made with chicken broth, you can substitute with any vegetable broth of your choice. And, you’ll have a perfectly delicious…
Castagnole Fritte, Italian Carnival Fritters are sweet, deep fried dough balls. These Italian-style fritters are lemon scented and rolled in granulated sugar while still warm for an extra sweet bite! Although immensely popular during Carnival season in Italy, these Italian fritters always made an appearance up until our Easter holiday. Lemon was the choice of…
This Potato and Rosemary Focaccia bread recipe is extremely light, airy and ever so fluffy. It rises beautifully and holds up well to the topping of thinly sliced layered potatoes. Both the dough and sliced red potatoes are brushed with an aromatic garlic and rosemary oil just before it hits the oven. If putting mashed…
A bright and bold Lemon Spaghetti with Shrimp recipe that’s always a winner at my house! You’ll love this dish for it’s simplicity and for how quickly it can be put together on a busy weeknight! Or even for those very special weekend dinners too! This dish features succulent colossal shrimp, marinated in an Italian…
Stracciatella Soup with Mini Meatballs is an Italian egg drop soup. It’s packed with shreds of eggs, cheese and parsley mixture and mini veal meatballs for a soul satisfying meal. What is Stracciatella Soup? Stracciatella soup is a classic broth based, egg drop soup and quite popular in the Lazian countryside of Italy where I…
The Ultimate Biscotti Box is a compilation of some of my very favourite biscotti recipes. All are truly easy to make, flavourful and perfectly dippable with a crisp tender bite. Although there are quite a few biscotti recipes here on the blog, today we are going back to basics on how you can easily put…
Learn how to make a spectacular Chocolate Cranberry Twist Star Bread that is sure to impress family and friends. This homemade sweet bread is loaded with walnuts, dried cranberries and dark chocolate pieces with some aromatic cinnamon flavour in every bite. There is something so magical by taking a few simple ingredients, which you probably…
These Wild Blueberry Lemon Biscotti get a lovely lemony kick from both the lemon zest and one of Italy’s favourite liqueur, Limoncello. They’re studded with dried wild blueberries, almonds and pure white chocolate chips then drizzled with more melted white chocolate for some extra sweetness in every bite. If you’ve been following my blog for…
Learn how to make your own homemade vanilla sugar to use in your favourite cookie recipes or other baked goods. All you need is some granulated sugar, a fresh vanilla bean and a few minutes of your time. So easy! I think that it’s pretty safe to say that this is by far the easiest…