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Breakfast Pizza

When I am visiting my family up in Michigan, we often cook together, which requires a few grocery stores runs to buy all the needed ingredients. Whenever we go...

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Pumpkin Spice Muffins

I made these Pumpkin Spice Muffins for Recipe Rebuild, the healthy food blog I share with my daughter, but they turned out so well I wanted to share them...

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Trevi Celery Parmigiana

This is a recipe that probably is not commonly found elsewhere, but that can be found in many restaurants and home kitchens across Umbria in mid to late October...

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Almond Panna Cotta

On our recent trip to Puglia, I’d have to say that our most memorable meal was in Otranto where we ate at L’Altro Baffo, a small seafood restaurant with...

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Slow Cooker Chicken Cacciatore

I must admit that I was late getting on the slow cooker band wagon, and honestly just never felt the need to invest in one. I was finally coaxed...

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Cream Of Celery Soup

Across Umbria every weekend throughout the summer of fall, there are many sagre or food festivals taking place. Over the past five years we’ve visited many of these local...

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Homemade Vanilla Extract

I do a lot of baking here in Umbria for our guests, and the one ingredient I really miss from North America is my vanilla extract. Here in Italy...

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Pumpkin Polenta With Sausage, Fennel, & Roasted Pumpkin Ragu

A month or so ago on one of our excursions outside Umbria, while driving down a country road we spotted a farm selling all sorts of gourds and pumpkins....

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Baked Polenta With Sausage & Mushrooms

My family loves polenta though we only seem to enjoy it in the fall and winter when we seem to crave heartier food. Although we’ve had an extremely warm...

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Chocolate Peanut Butter Marbled Biscotti

I honestly believe that one must have a passion for food to tackle writing a food blog, and since I’ve had my blog Italian Food Forever online for over 11 years now, my...