This is one of my favorite pasta dishes and it’s simple to make.  I’d pass over a plate of lasagna any day for a dish of pasta with rapini.  Italians go wild over rapini. Literally – well almost.  It grows wild in the Mediterranean and also in areas of Southern California.  In its wild form […]

This morning I woke up to some glorious sunshine, so I set out for our local farmers market and lucked out finding some beautiful Swiss chard.  I know it’s silly, but I get excited when I see vegetables at their finest.  My father Pino grows the most exquisite chard I have ever seen.  Funny thing […]

The Sicilian word affucato, or affogato in Italian, means to drown.  Which is what these eggs are – drowned in a savory broth enriched with asparagus and potatoes. My mother Maria can do wonderful things with eggs.  This is my favorite of all of her egg dishes.  It’s a really unique recipe – unusual as far […]

Making fresh pasta is not as hard as it seems if you have the right equipment.  I use my Kitchen Aid mixer with a pasta roller attachment – it takes the headache out of cranking that ole pasta machine all day.  It cranks out pasta in short time: otherwise, it can be a long drawn […]