My wife took over the blog for the day. Here is Dana! I am from Queens, NY and one of the main Italian cuisine staples is vodka sauce! I wanted to make a delicious vodka sauce to celebrate our 2nd anniversary. We both loved this meal. I hope you enjoy it! Dana’s Rigatoni a La [...]
My Father-In-Law Bill came down to visit a while back and he made some awesome Marinara. It was so delicious, I had to get the recipe to share. The Sauce had great color, texture and best of all – taste. It is a simple recipe that uses the best ingredients. The best types of recipes [...]
I know that when the average foodie hears the like of Rachel Ray they cringe, but I just tried a take on one of her recipes and it was pretty darn good. As a man that likes to eat I will try just about anything once. Granted I have tried a couple of her recipes [...]
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This week Dana got a year older. For her sake, we will not divulge the exact age. However, her only request was to have lasagna made with beef and not Italian sausage. So I whipped up some homemade noodles and put together her Birthday Lasagna. It was a great little lasagna. I may not be Italian, but I [...]
Italian food is one of my vices. I love the sauce, the pasta and the bread. The main problem is that my favorite recipe chicken Parmesan takes a while to cook, it requires a full chicken breast per person. Doesn’t seem like that big of a problem, but when you start cooking a bunch and [...]
Posted in Chicken, Italian, Recipes, Sauces Tags: chicken parm, chicken parmesan, easy, one pan meals, quick, recipe 1 Comment »The other day I was reading the December issue of Food and Wine and I came across this recipe and I had to try it. Roasted tomato sauce and eggs. So simple yet I had never even thought of trying it. Although it takes a bit to make it, the tomato sauce can be made [...]
Posted in Breakfast, eggs, Italian, Recipes, Sauces Tags: eggs, eggs in roasted tomato sauce, eggs in tomato sauce, Garlic, homemade sauce, roasted tomato sauce, tomatoes 5 Comments »Sometimes I get tired and want to take a shortcut. Making meatballs from scratch takes a lot of time and effort. So the other day when I received a shipment of turkey meatballs from my advertisers Shadybrook Farms and Foodbuzz.com I was excited. Shadybrook Farms is known for Turkey. The turkey meatballs that I received [...]
Posted in Italian, Recipes, Sauces, Turkey Tags: Foodbuzz, hoagies, homemade marinara, meatball subs, Shadybrook Farms Meatballs, subs, Turkey 7 Comments »If you have been watching TV lately, Dominos has been advertising their new Bread Bowl Pasta. It is Carbs on Carbs, so basically it is amazing. So I wanted to make my own version to see how great pasta in a bread bowl could actually be. Spoiler Alert – It was amazing. The bread bowl [...]
Posted in Baking, Bread, Cooking, Italian, Pasta, Pizza, Sauces, Sourdough Tags: bread bowl, bread bowl pasta, carb overload, dominos, Food, Marinara, Pasta, pizza, recipe, Recipes 28 Comments »Every once in a while you need a quick meal and don’t have any jars of marinara lying around. Or, if you are like me you like to make your own, but don’t have time to let it simmer for 2 hours. I made this quick sauce that took only 15 minutes to make.
Posted in Italian, Pasta, Pizza, Recipes, Sauces Tags: basic marinara, Italian, Marinara, quick and easy marinara, Recipes, sauce, whole tomatoes 8 Comments »
