This Chicken Marsala, which I first posted several years ago, never gets old. With the weather turning colder this is comfort food at its best. It is cooked in one skillet, large enough to hold the 4 chicken breasts, sauteed mushrooms, and the creamy Marsala sauce. A side of mashed potatoes or your choice of…
Tag: Italian
Lidia’s Rigatoni Woodsman-Style
If you are not familiar with Lidia Bastianich, she is an Italian-American, celebrity chef, television host, author, and restaurateur, specializing in Italian and Italian-American cuisine. The name Woodsman-Style refers to the plentiful mushrooms in the sauce, and the presumption it is the “woodsmen” who find the wild mushrooms in the forest. However, almost any variety…
Pasta with Fennel and Sausage
This recipe comes from Ina Garten’s recent book, Cooking for Jeffrey. Her recipe calls for rigatoni , but I substituted rotini since I was out of rigatoni. It is simple, quick to make and freezes well. If frozen, defrost in refrigerator, then reheat in microwave or warm in oven. If making one day ahead:…
Chicken Marsala
I made this Chicken Marsala last week one evening for dinner. I was surprised to see I had not ever posted a recipe for Chicken Marsala on this blog. I do have one for Chicken Piccata, which is easy and delicious, so you may want to check it out when you have time. It is…
Italian Baked Meatballs
Weeks before Thanksgiving I began cooking and freezing numerous meals to have on hand when my sister and brother arrived. They were coming the week before Thanksgiving. Having some home cooked meals available even after busy days spent sight seeing, shopping,movie-going, walking, and just enjoying Slo was great. And of course we did our share…
Nancy Silverton’s Chopped Salad
Chef Nancy Silverton is the co-owner of Pizzeria Mozza in Los Angeles, where you will find her Chopped Salad on the menu. I was lucky enough to eat there years ago shortly after it opened while we were visiting my son in LA on one of our trips from Maryland. Nancy has said she has…
Chicago Deep-Dish Pizza (or as I like to call it pizza bread)
Having lived in the Chicago area for 15 years we are big fans of Chicago style pizza! Known as deep-dish pizza, stuffed pizza or simply Chicago pizza, it is, as you probably are aware, vastly different from that of the many fantastic pizzas found in Italy, NYC, or almost anywhere else in the US of…
Chicken Cacciatore
Chicken Cacciatore! I love saying it as much as I love eating it! Basically this dish is an Italian chicken stew but you have to agree Chicken Cacciatore sounds much more intriguing! “Cacciatore” means hunter’s style in Italian, and you will find countless versions of this dish. They will most often include onions, garlic,…
Zucchini Lasagne
I created the delicious (happy to say) Zucchini Lasagne you see above when my intention was really to make a recipe I came across in a magazine for Grilled Zucchini Parmigiana. But, a funny thing happened on my way to making it… I’m nothing if not impulsive and determined. I realized in my haste to make…
Quick Tomato Sauce
Sometimes simple is best! And with good ingredients, simple allows the true flavors to shine through. Trying to come up with a quick dinner the other evening, while hungry for pasta, I found this recipe for Tomato Sauce in The Tuscan Sun cookbook, a favorite of mine for Italian dishes. With few ingredients and a super…