Cooking with nonna

Thanks giving weekend just passed in Canada and here in southern Ontario we have been enjoying what are probably our last days of sunny warm…

The Tomato!! Believe it or not, the tomato does not originate from Italy, not even Europe. In fact, it is quite a newcomer to Italian…

Roasting peppers over a fire, out of all the autumn preserving, I think, is my favorite. It might be because I’m a wee bit of…

One of the first and last things to grow in an Italian garden is rapini, a collard green of which there are many varieties.

0 We can’t very well have a blog about Italian food without covering the ins and outs of homemade pasta! For some reason it is…

Everyone raves about this ‘polpette’ recipe, Italian for ‘meatballs’, that nonna Francesca has been making for over 50 years.

I would say that for Italians, Easter is the second most popular holiday of the year next to Christmas.