Pasta Tuna Salad With Sliced Green Olives
This is for green olive lovers! I got this recipe from a co-worker years ago and i make it every summer. It’s inexpensive, easy to throw together and makes a great summer meal.
Pasta Salad With Smoked Salmon And Fava Beans
This salad comes from an italian cooking magazine called “subito pronto”. That translates to immediately ready. (update: after the first review i double checked the recipe and it does call for 1 cup of olive oil; it might be an…
Pasta Puttanesca The Madame S Pasta
I would rather have a plate of this over spaghetti any day. In the absence of a tomato sauce… The flavors really stand out. This dish originated in the red light districts of italy when the ladies of the night…
Pasta Pizzoloto
This is a dish prepared at one of the local italian eateries. They won’t give me the recipe, so i bought a huge bowl of it, took it home and dissected it so i could make it. It is very…
Pasta Alla Puttanesca
This is a simple pasta dish for those of us who enjoy pasta but prefer a light meal without sauces that take long to prepare. This is the new trend in italian cooking. The secret in these fast sauces is…
Party Size Giardiniera Antipasto
A tasty, make-ahead antipasto, which will please your guests, and deviates from the usual “chips-and-dips”, appetizers. Served with pumpernickle cocktail rounds, sliced baguette, pita rounds or several differently shaped crackers, your guests will feel comfortable enjoying this vitamin-rich natural, delight.…
Party Tray Wrap Up
This was lunch the day after a game-day dinner at my house. The ingredients i used were leftovers from my antipasto tray, but you could use the same idea for a sandwich using any snack-tray holdovers in the fridge.
Parsley Pesto Useful For Many Dishes
Simple throw-together recipe, for which you really must have garden-fresh flat-leafed parsley. Use lime juice if possible, it’s so tangy. Parsley is one of the most nutritious herbs, packed with antioxidants, but seldom used in quantity. I can eat this…
Panzanella Salad
Capers will work in place of the olives, if you prefer. You really need to use ripe tomatoes so that the juices soak into the bread nicely.
Oven Baked Spanish Chicken With Rice
If you have a large enough baking dish you can throw in a few more pieces of chicken, i made this in my small roaster, but i think it would work in a 13 x 9-inch baking dish, adjust all…