Nonna’s best and most popular recipes. Our most loved traditional Italian dishes made the way Nonna made them back in Italy.
Nonna’s Easy Chicken Pastina Soup recipe is Italian comfort food at its best. This very simple recipe, is the perfect meal when the weather is starting to get cooler and you just want something homey and cozy. Nonna (my mom, but Nonna to everyone else) …
Homemade Sicilian eggplant caponata is delicious served as an appetizer with crostini or as an accompaniment to chicken or fish. It is a blend of eggplant, olives, celery, tomato, and capers. The bold flavors of these simple vegetables are heightened and complemented by the sweet and sour “agrodolce” sauce that it is cooked in.
Cannoli filled with ricotta and chocolate chips is a classic Sicilian dessert. This delicious pastry filling is sweet, decadent and incredibly easy to make.
These incredibly tasty Grilled Lollipop Lamb chops make an impressive appetizer or a scrumptious summer dinner.
Italian Chocolate Spice Cookies are soft chocolatey cookies flavored with warm spices including cinnamon and clove.
Sicilian Almond Paste cookies are scrumptious and easy to make! I am so happy to be sharing my mother’s recipe, also known as “Pasticcini alla Pasta di Mandorla”. These are the most incredibly special cookies that we make.
It just would not be Christmas at our house, or any Sicilian house for that matter, without Cuccidati, Italian Fig cookies. These wonderful treats may just be the most famous of all Italian cookies. Do not even think about comparing these to Fig Newtons. Cuccidati are a whole different kind of “good”.
Eggplants are in season and I have really been enjoying my mother’s Grilled Eggplant with Balsamic and Garlic. The eggplant is charred on the grill and then topped with oregano, garlic and balsamic vinegar. It is so easy but yet so incredibly flavorful. I think …
My mom’s chicken cutlets are absolutely delicious. The breading is perfectly seasoned with a combination of blended pecorino romano and parmesan cheeses and a little bit of mint.
Stuffed Italian Chicken Rolls are savory tender little packages of goodness disguised as dinner! These chicken roll ups are filled with Rosmarino ham, cheese and tomatoes. One bite and you will be in your happy place! My Sicilian mother has been making this for years …
