Cannelloni with Meat and Spinach (Cannelloni di Carne e Spinaci)
An authentic Italian recipe from our kitchen to yours. Buon Appetito!
Ingredients for the Filling
Grandmama's Recipes
Traditional Italian Pear Tart (Crostata di Pere)
Ingredients
- 1 package prepared puff pastry dough
- 2/3 cup fresh fruit such as plums, apricots, pears, apples, berries, etc.
Italian Easter Egg Cookies
I started this tradition with my daughter when she younger as she loved to decorate the egg shaped cookies. It is not Easter in our house without the Easter Egg Cookies
Potatoes and Carrots (Patate e Carote)
An authentic Italian recipe from our kitchen to yours. Buon Appetito!
Ingredients
Herb Oil (Olio alle Erbe)
An authentic Italian recipe from our kitchen to yours. Buon Appetito!
Ingredients
Chicken with Peppers and Olives (Pollo con Peperoni e Olive)
Delicious roast chicken with savory peppers and olives make this a special dish. An authentic Italian recipe from our kitchen to yours. Buon Appetito!
Neapolitan Stuffed Easter Bread
The casatiello is a savory filled Neapolitan Easter bread that nonna Galasso made from memory. For her it held all the symbolism of faith. Casatiello derives from case, which in Neapolitan dialect means “cheese”, because of the use of cheese in the dough and in the filling. The rising dough meant the promise of new life; the shape of the bread symbolized a crown and the eggs meant rebirth. There are many variations of this stuffed bread, but it is one of those antique recipes not made at home anymore and Neapolitans are likely to buy them at their local bakery. That is a pity!
Chocolate Syrup (kinda like Hershey's)
Chocolate Sauce
1/2 cup of cocoa
1 cup of water
1 1/2 to 2 cups of sugar
1/8 tsp of salt
1/2 tsp of vanilla
Mix the cocoa and water in a saucepan. Heat and stir until the cocoa is dissolved. Add the sugar, stir until dissolved. Boil for 2 minutes and then add the salt and vanilla. Then store in the frig and use as needed. It will last a long time in the frig, but because of our daughter ours always disappears quickly!
Grandma Giro's Potica Bread
DOUGH
2 C milk scalded and cooled to lukewarm
2 TBSP butter
1/2 C sugar
2 tsp salt
1 cake yeast dissolved in 1/4 c warm water
5 1/2 C flour
2 well beaten eggs
Let rise, punch once, roll on floured board.
FILLING
2 LBS walnuts ground
1/2 C sugar
1 tsp vanilla
Half and Half cream to make paste
Grease 3 loaf pans. Butter top of bread and pierce with tooth pick.
Bake 375 for 15 minutes
Bake 300 for 30 minutes
Chicken Cacciatore
Ingredients
* 1 tablespoon butter
* 1 large onion, chopped
* 1 large green bell pepper, sliced thin
* 1 teaspoon crushed garlic
* 2 (14.5 ounce) cans diced tomatoes, drained and juice reserved
* 1 cup Burgundy wine
* 1 1/2 tablespoons Italian seasoning
* 1 teaspoon salt
* 1 teaspoon ground black pepper
* 1/2 teaspoon garlic salt
* 1 whole chicken, cut into pieces
* 2 tablespoons all-purpose flour
* 1 (16 ounce) package spaghetti
Directions