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Pizza Rustica

Deborah — Fri, 04 Apr 2025 23:00:00 +0000

Food plays a very important part in Italian holiday celebrations, and Easter in particular has many famous recipes associated with it. Pizza Rustica, also called Easter Pie, Pizza Ripiena, Torta Pasqualina, or Pizzachino is basically a rich quiche type of filling completely enclosed in a buttery pastry. This dish celebrates both Easter, as well the...

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Pizza Chena

Deborah — Wed, 02 Apr 2025 11:00:00 +0000

Pizza Chena, or Pizza Chiena, sometimes pronounced “Pizza Gaina,” is a southern Italian savory “pie” made with a variety of cheese, cold cuts, and eggs baked within a bread crust. There are many different recipes for this traditional Italian specialty, but this is the one I prefer. You can play around with the fillings as...

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Ricotta And Goat Cheese Tomato Tart

Deborah — Mon, 24 Feb 2025 12:00:00 +0000

When we spent six months a year in Italy, we always had a large garden that I could as inspiration for my daily recipes. We planted a variety of Italian tomatoes, my favorite being San Marzano, sweet Datterini, and the Grapolli variety which I use to make my tomato jam. Every summer I ended up...

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Quick & Easy Rustic Summer Tomato Tart

Deborah — Mon, 29 Aug 2022 11:00:54 +0000

Every summer we seem to have an excess of something in our garden. It is often zucchini, although this year our zucchini started off strong but then fizzled out to nothing. Our tomatoes however, have taken over, and our tomatoes plants have outgrown their six-foot stakes and are now either folding over or are growing...

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Eggplant Flan {Sformato di Melanzane}

Deborah — Wed, 02 Aug 2017 08:43:20 +0000

The eggplants in our garden are growing well this summer, and I have been using them to make our favorite Eggplant Parmesan, Eggplant & Tomato Salad, Pasta all Norma, and Roasted Mixed Vegetables pretty often over the last couple of months. I was looking for a new recipe that featured eggplants but just couldn’t seem...

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Fig, Gorgonzola Tart With Prosciutto & Arugula

Deborah — Thu, 20 Jul 2017 07:03:27 +0000

It has been a hot, dry couple of months here in Umbria, and although I swore that I wouldn’t complain about the heat when we arrived in April to very cool temperatures, I honestly am a little tired of sweating. We have only had a little rain in weeks, and in fact, it has been...

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Spinach & Artichoke Rustic Tart

Deborah — Fri, 21 Apr 2017 15:27:16 +0000

Spring in Italy is a glorious time for food lovers as markets are filled with fresh artichokes, tender fava beans, pencil thin stalks of asparagus, strawberries, and apricots. I am counting the days until I get back to Umbria in just a couple of weeks when I can pick artichokes and fava beans right from...

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Cheese And Ham Stuffed Focaccia

Deborah — Wed, 18 Jan 2017 20:10:04 +0000

When I am in Umbria, I typically make focaccia at least once a week. I usually share some with our farmhouse guests, and my husband likes to snack on it throughout the day as he does his daily chores. I also like to cut a couple of larger squares that I freeze for the future...

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