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How To Make Stay Green Basil Pesto

Deborah — Thu, 25 Sep 2025 11:00:00 +0000

Basil has to be hands down my favorite Italian herb, and we always plant it in pots or in our veggie garden each spring so I can enjoy fresh basil to use in my kitchen right through to the first hard frost. We returned home in Umbria last Tuesday, and after being away for a...

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How To Make Trofie Step By Step

Deborah — Wed, 05 Jun 2024 11:00:00 +0000

I tasted my first plate of Trofie with Pesto Sauce many years ago when we lived in Milan and had taken a brief trip to Liguria. The basil that grows in that area is the most flavorful I’ve ever tasted, and makes a glorious pesto sauce that is delicious on many types of pasta, particularly...

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How To Make Strozzapreti Step By Step

Deborah — Mon, 28 Sep 2015 04:50:29 +0000

I must admit that although I love just about any well-prepared pasta dish, I am particularly fond of handmade artisan pasta shapes such as this one. There is just something about starting with flour and water and ending up with a delicious pasta dish that is so satisfying. This particular pasta is called strozzapreti, which...

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Whole Wheat Pumpkin Stuffed Mezzaluna Pasta – A Step by Step Tutorial

Deborah — Thu, 11 Dec 2014 11:17:15 +0000

I have been cooking with fresh pumpkin frequently over the past few months, using it often in my baking or pasta dishes. Recently I began to crave a stuffed pumpkin pasta, but wanted to use whole grain dough. I have never made a whole grain stuffed pasta dough in the past, having used the traditional...

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How To Make Garden Fresh Tomato Sauce Step by Step

Deborah — Tue, 17 Sep 2013 09:28:50 +0000

Every year when late summer rolls around and we enter into “tomato season” I begin to crave this simple, flavorsome tomato sauce. There is no other tomato sauce so pure of flavor as one made from garden fresh ripe tomatoes that are heated just long enough to thicken into a sauce. I first enjoyed this...

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Homemade Lasagna Noodles

Deborah — Fri, 31 Aug 2012 14:52:25 +0000

I try and use fresh pasta sheets for any type of lasagna I may make just because I think fresh egg pasta sheets always taste better in a lasagna than dried ones do. Here in Umbria we are lucky enough to be able to buy great quality fresh pasta sheets that are very inexpensive in...

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How To Make Ricotta Cheese At Home

Deborah — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 19:14:23 +0000

Ricotta cheese is widely used in Italian cooking in everything from appetizers to desserts. It is a very soft, low-fat cheese that is actually a by-product of cheese making because it is made from the whey that has been separated from the curd in the process of actually making cheese. It is in fact, technically...

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How To Make Orecchiette Step By Step

Deborah — Sat, 22 Oct 2011 15:42:47 +0000

Orecchiette pasta resemble little ears, which is where they get their name. This unique pasta shape can be found across Italy, but is traditionally a typical pasta of Puglia. Although there are many variations of ingredients used to make this pasta, traditionally it is made simply with a combination of fine semolina flour and water...

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