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
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.
Christmas Eve Calamari
The much-ballyhooed Italian Christmas classic, Feast of the Seven Fishes, stars one fish in Domenica Marchetti’s home. Calamari. And it’s the centerpiece of her Christmas Eve dinner.
Spinach with Raisins and Pine Nuts
When prepared simply yet perfectly as here, this classic side dish will leave a lingering memory of just how lovely something healthy can be.
Pumpkin Pasta Dough
Spectacularly stunning—and unbelievably easy—handmade pasta that takes its lovely color and subtle flavor from sweetly savory pumpkin or other winter squash.
Brussels Sprouts with Guanciale
Restaurant-worthy Brussels sprouts but with the ease of making them at home any darn time you like. You’re welcome.
Dorie Greenspan’s Spaghetti and Meatballs
Everything you’d expect from a Dorie Greenspan recipe—easy, utterly delicious, and crowd-pleasing.