Aperol Spritz
A modern riff on the classic Italian cocktail. The addition of orange-flavored hard seltzer gives your drink a refreshing, and unexpected, upgrade.
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Italian-Style Turkey Meatballs
Meatballs are meatballs, right? Not even close. These little babies take ground turkey and make it taste like a healthier, umami-packed heaven.
Balsamic Roasted Potatoes
Such a brilliantly simple idea: Roast chunks of potatoes, red onions, pancetta, and garlic in oil and balsamic vinegar. Boo-yah!
Pasta with Anchovies and Onions
If you know Chris McDade, you know he loves the salty umami bombs known as anchovies. Let this effortless pasta show you why we’re obsessed, too.
Spaghetti with Scallops
Elegant and easy, Guiliano Hazan’s recipe for a stunning 30-minute pasta dinner turns out classic Italian fare without any fuss at all.
Spaghetti al Limone Amalfitano
This Italian classic is “a cook’s recipe,” which is to say, we give you all the components and how-tos that you need. You get to tweak it to your pantry and your preference.
Focaccia
Easier to shape than a boule, focaccia is the next bread you may want to master making at home. Just slice it and eat it as-is with its dimpled herb-flecked surface.
Homemade Tagliatelle
Making pasta at home is much easier than you may think. This recipe walks you through making silken, tender tagliatelle that’s perfect for tossing and twirling with anything.
Focaccia with Olives and Rosemary
Dimpled with a lightly salted top, focaccia is a chewy and tender Italian bread that’s also impressively light and airy when made properly. This recipe shows you how.
Sautéed Escarole
A classic Italian treatment for an everyday green that tastes anything but ordinary thanks to the perfect technique.
Tuna Salad with White Beans
Crisp onion and creamy white beans turn tuna into a light dinner, courtesy of the always impressive Stanley Tucci.
Lasagne Bolognese
Think you know lasagne? As Giuliano Hazan explains, what you know may be sadly mistaken. His recipe will fix that.
Filone
Filone’s chewy crust and light, airy crumb make this everyday Italian bread a standout. Especially doable if it’s your first-time with sourdough bread baking.
Panna Cotta
Panna cotta translates to “cooked cream,” which really doesn’t do justice to this creamy as sin, subtly flavored, lightly sweetened, sublime Italian classic.
Jessie James Decker’s Lemon Basil Pasta
This bright and creamy lemon basil pasta from Jessie James Decker is a delight for vegetarians and meat eaters alike. Lemon lovers unite!
Slow Cooked Lamb and Cannellini Beans
A comforting lamb and bean stew to tide you over in the depths of winter with a splash of verve from gremolata.
Italian Breadsticks ~ Grissini Torinesi
Most Americans know grissini as those pale breadsticks in the long waxen envelopes at old-time Italian restaurants. How sad for us. Perhaps we can do something about that.
Pasta Soup with Potatoes and Pancetta
This good old-fashioned soup has a frugal heartiness once needed by day laborers. And a satiating subtleness now appreciated by foodies.
Braised Beef with Red Wine Pasta
With all due respect, your go-to recipe for beef stew falls short of this magnificent melding of beef, wine, and pasta. No contest.
Quick Pizza Dough
A quick pizza dough—the easiest we’ve ever worked with—that rests for a mere hour yet turns out spectacularly well. Because pizza cravings don’t wait. Or at least ours don’t.
Mushroom Pizza with Ricotta
A pizza that takes white pizza up a level with several kinds of cheeses and mushrooms and a dough that’s a cinch to toss together.
Pork Loin in the Style of Porchetta
A mashup of two Italian classics—arista and porchetta—that’s essentially pork roast stuffed with rosemary and more ground pork. Ridiculously easy to make. And even easier to devour.
Brodo di Pollo ~ Italian Chicken Soup
Brodo di pollo is, in essence, Italian chicken soup. And it’s a strong contender for the most soothing chicken noodle soup anywhere. Made by nonnas everywhere.
Beef Stew with Red Wine
An Italian tradition that, in true form, transforms simple ingredients into something sublime.
Easy Raised Doughnuts ~ Cuddureddi
Cuddureddi. It means “a cause for celebration” if you’re from Italy. Well, actually, it means “a sort of doughnut.” Sorta the same thing.