As each new season passes into the next, I find myself thinking that each new season must be my favorite. Being an avid home cook, I look forward to...
The holidays are just around the corner, in fact, Canadian Thanksgiving is this weekend, a month later American Thanksgiving is celebrated, and a month after that Christmas will be...
My husband could eat pasta every day, and growing up in an Italian family that served pasta most days, if we go more than two or three days without...
I have now been back in North America for a week tomorrow and will be traveling up to Canada to visit family on Sunday. Although I miss Italy, it...
One aspect I love about living in Italy is that the produce is so seasonal. As one season passes on to the next, a new selection of fruits and...
We will be leaving Umbria in less than two weeks now, so here I am once again trying to use up all the food in our refrigerator and freezer...
We returned from Sardinia last week to find that fall has arrived in Umbria which is very welcome after the scorcher of a summer that we had. The temperatures...
We struggled all summer long with our zucchini, and no matter how hard we tried we just could get the zucchini to grow large enough to be harvested. We...
The essence of Italian cooking today is simplicity. One uses the freshest seasonal ingredients and basic cooking techniques to simply enhance the natural flavor of the food.
