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Chicken Cacciatore (Pollo alla Cacciatora)

  Chicken Cacciatore (Pollo alla Cacciatora) is Hunter’s chicken stew, rustic Italian classic with chicken thighs and drumsticks, mushrooms, and olives simmered in red wine to get rustic sauce served with your favorite pasta! Authentic stovetop version.   For decades, my grandmother used to prepare suppers for a group of… Read more »

Spinach Ricotta Rolls

  Spinach Ricotta Rolls are easy spinach roll recipe with low – fat ricotta cheese. Made with store bought puff pasty, you get a week dinner ready to enjoy in 35 minutes !   Besides great healthy vegetarian week dinner, these spinach ricotta rolls are amazing appetizers for parties and… Read more »

Rustic Vegetarian Spinach Tart

  Rustic Vegetarian Spinach Tart:  Mediterranean dish at its best ! The taste is irresistible. Crust recipe is made from scratch and filling for this tart is made of chopped spinach, garlic, parmesan, cheese and eggs. Pastry is home made with sour cream and eggs. It is great base for… Read more »

Spaghetti Fritters

  Spaghetti Fritters also known as Fritelle di Spaghetti are frugal and tasty week dinner recipe made with spaghetti leftovers. It is sooooo obvious we had spaghetti yesterday ! My biggest challenge while cooking is boiling too much pasta. Every single time ! But I guess we all do the same.… Read more »

Cheesy Baked Rice

Cheesy Baked Rice recipe: light and seducing. Perfect for warmer seasons. Italian way ! When started to create this dish, I wondered about the thickness. That is why I chose Arborio thinking if it is good for risotto it will definitely keep the baked ingredients together. I am happy to… Read more »

Tomato Salsa

Tomato Salsa: Frugal and best spaghetti sauce ever ! For the best results, use high quality fresh tomatoes. But, if you have decided to make salsa on your own, and are now reading this, I am sure you already know that. This year, when salsa was done, I have packed… Read more »

Galette Tricolori

Galette Tricolori: Italian dish made of tomatoes, spinach and hard cheese wrapped in puff pastry. My mother’s garden. She managed to maintain heirloom variety tomatoes, garlic, cucumbers and God knows what else that exists in our family for over hundred years. We have always had very special taste of salads… Read more »

Leftovers Galette

  Leftovers Galette is budget friendly savory galette to use all the leftovers, be it Thanksgiving or any other holiday party. Instead of sandwiches, you use pie crust or homemade dough and there you have an easy dinner everybody loves!   Once your party is over I guess your containers… Read more »