Seasonal Recipes

Lemon Pasta With Grilled Shrimp This pasta has a delicate lemon flavor that is delicious topped with grilled seafood such as shrimp as shown in the picture below. It is also a perfect first course without the shrimp, served before …

My idea of supper in Venice is eating at a finely set table on-board a flat-bottom boat enjoying the calm, cool quiet of the lagoon after a day of sailing its secret estuaries and hopping its tiny islands with their …

The farmer’s markets in Los Angeles are finally filling up with summer vegetables. Summer squash of all shapes and colors, Italian and Japanese eggplant, bell peppers of all varieties. And fresh summer vegetables are the perfect ingredient for antipasti platters. …

Linguine with Blue Crabs Sauce… a seafood sauce with a very sweet flavor.  Ingredients: 3 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil, 4 cloves garlic, chopped, pinch of peperoncino, 1 dozen blue crabs, with top shell removed and washed, 1 cup chablis …

Rossella and Nonna Carmela D’Angelo are making Stuffed Mushrooms, a specialty appetizer that Nonna Carmela makes at all holidays. Nonna Carmela hails from Palo del Colle, Bari (Puglia) Italy.   Ingredients For the Sauce: 2 Tbs Extra Virgin Olive Oil …

I’ve fallen in love with No Bake Tarts! They’re quick and easy to prepare and can be made with so many fun fillings. You can absolutely switch up the cookies in the crust and use a store bought lemon curd …

As the heat of summer gives way to the cooler chill of fall, my garden harvest begins to slow.  The last of the tomatoes remain on the vine waiting for a last gasp of heat. The little eggplants struggle for …

As summer’s heat bears down on folks from Italy to America, time is best spent under a striped beach umbrella at la spiaggia or under a shaded pergola with a chilled, frosty spritz in hand. One needs some fresh, simple …

In 1624 the populace of Palermo fell victim to the Black Death, the Plague.  As the Palermitani prayed, built fires, and collected the dead they waited for Salvation from Above.  Salvation came in a citizen’s fever dream, in which Santa …

Bring on summer in all its beautiful glory! Life always feels so much more colorful during the summer months – sort of like the iconic scene in the Wizard of Oz when Dorothy emerges from her sepia-hued Kansas landscape to …