Tag: Italian cooking

Chicken Piccata

Chicken Piccata

Another fast dinner recipe for days I don’t have time to go shopping and come up with elaborate dinner plans. Tonight is Chicken Piccata, a sublime marriage between sauteed floured chicken breast cut into thin cutlets and a lemony-buttery-garlicky sauce topped with lemon slices, capers and parsley. I bet you would pay thick for this dinner at a five star restaurant. Here is your chance to make it yourself!

Wordless Friday – Spinach Ravioli with 4 Cheese Filling

Wordless Friday – Spinach Ravioli with 4 Cheese Filling

Freshly made spinach ravioli with a 4 cheese filling (Blue, Feta, Parmesan and Cream cheese) sprinkled with sauteed sage, and in a fennel-butter-anchovies sauce.

Pasta Basta (or home made pasta)

Pasta Basta (or home made pasta)

No, that’s not a name of an obscure pasta dish, or anything near – just the title for my blog post on how to make pasta from scratch.

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I enjoy cooking with store bought pasta (Barilla) but for certain dishes I like having home made fresh pasta (Pasta Fresca), since it adds a whole new dimension to the equation.

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Pasta Al Brodo – A Quick One

Pasta Al Brodo – A Quick One

Even if there’s nothing Romanian about it, seems like Pasta Al Brodo became a Sunday lunch tradition on our household.

The Universal Mushroom Sauce

The Universal Mushroom Sauce

In days when the inspiration muse doesn’t strike, it is always helpful to fall back on some good old recipes you know and tried before. One of them is my mushroom sauce. A humble sauce but not with a humble attitude, my universal mushroom sauce […]