Mafalde Bolognese Sauce- Meat Sauce
By · CommentsRecipe: Mafalde with Bolognese Sauce – Meat Sauce
Summary: Mafalde Bolognese Sauce is a hearty, rich , flavorful and filling meat sauce. This is comfort food to me. This dish is even better the next day.
Ingredients
- 1 lb of Mafalde Pasta. (or your choice of pasta)
- ½ lb beef
- ½ lb veal
- ½ lb sausage, no casing.
- 1 carrot, diced
- 1 onion, diced
- about 5 cloves of sliced garlic
- ¼ cup heavy cream- (optional)
- 2 large cans of whole tomato’s , Crushed tomatoes works fine too. So your preference.
- Salt, pepper, and if you like crushed red chili’s. Adjust to your liken.
- Grated cheese ( optional) to your liking.
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Jalapeno Garlic Hummus
By · CommentsRecipe: Jalapeno Garlic Hummus
Summary: Jalapeno Garlic Hummus is an easy dish , you do really need a food processor. You can have fun with this dish, add or subtract Roasted Peppers, Orange Rind, Parsley, Rosemary, Fresh Chili’s, Fennel, etc.
Ingredients
- 2 cans of chick peas, rinsed.
- 1 lemon, its zest & juice, with out pits please.
- 1 Jalapeno pepper.
- 4 cloves of garlic.
- Extra virgin olive oil,
- salt and fresh cracked black pepper.
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Chocolate Covered Bacon
By · CommentsRecipe: Chocolate Covered Bacon
Summary: Chocolate Covered Bacon
Chocolate Covered Bacon Ingredients
- 1 lb of bacon
- 1 cup of chocolate
- 1 tlb spoon olive oil
Spicy Crispy Onions
By · CommentsRecipe: Spicy Crispy Onions
Summary: Spicy Crispy Onions is a great side dish for any burger, steak, sandwich, roast beef, etc.
Ingredients
- 1 large white sweet onion
- 1 egg
- 1/4 cup of your favorite hot sauce (Tabasco)
- ¼ cup flour
- salt & pepper
- olive oil.
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Pasta Fagioli
By · CommentsRecipe: Pasta Fagioli
Summary: Pasta Fagioli could also be a vegetarian soup, just leave out the pork.
Ingredients
- I use canned bean just because it’s easier and faster, 2 large cans of fagioli or cannallini beans their the same.
- ½ a lb of bacon try not to use a flavored bacon. Panchetta’s even better, use what you have.
- 4 cloves of garlic
- 1 large onion or 2 medium sized onions
- 2 peeled carrots
- medium size dry chilli flakes
- about a tea spoon full salt,
- ground pepper
- extra virgin olive oil
- grated cheese a hard firm Italian cheese like pecorino romano, granna padanna or a parmigiano-reggiano.
- 1 can of tomato sauce, or a can of tomato paste you can even use ketchup about a 4-7 second squeeze
- About a pound of dry pasta, whatever shape you have you can combine partial boxes and then cut them on a board when their cooked.
- About a quart of chicken stock, vegetable stock or water. DONT use beef stock .
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Raw Beets with Mascarpone Cheese
By · CommentsRecipe: Raw Beets with Mascarpone Cheese
Summary: Raw Beets with Mascarpone Cheese- This is a very easy dish. And not no mention healthy. It also works as a bruschetta spread.
Ingredients
- 2 medium fresh beets
- 2 table spoons of mascarpone cheese
- ½ fresh lemon, squeezed for its juice.
- ½ lb of baby arugula.
- Salt & pepper
- extra virgin olive.
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Spinach Egg Soup (Strachetella)
By · CommentsRecipe: Spinach Egg Soup (Strachetella)
Summary: Spinach Egg Soup (Strachetella)-
Ingredients
- 1 large bag of fresh spinach, your choice of spinach.
- 1 ½ quarts of water
- 1 large egg or 2 small eggs your choice
- Italian grated cheese
- salt and pepper
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Watermelon Salad with Feta Cheese and Black Olives
By · CommentsRecipe: Watermelon Salad with Feta Cheese and Black Olives
Summary: Watermelon Salad with Feta Cheese and Black Olives is a great summertime salad, due to the fact that melons are best in season. Watermelon salad is a refreshing & cool, with bright flavors, and great red, green & white colors. The sweet watermelon against the dry flavorful feta cheese, combined with the saltiness of the black cured olives, topped with micro greens (I love pea shoots) lemon, olive oil. Very clean tasty and unique flavors.
Ingredients
- half a watermelon
- 1 cup black oil cured olives
- 1 cup of feta cheese
- 1 lemon
- 2 bunches of watercress or a good micro green
- olive oil
- coarse sea salt
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Sauteed Baby Artichokes – Roman Style
By · CommentsRecipe: Sauteed Baby Artichokes (Roman Style)
Summary: Sauteed Baby Artichokes Roman Style is a great side dish. You can take it a step further and add chicken and pasta for a main coarse. Baby artichokes are very healthy, and extremely tasty. I like a little lemon zest on mine it really makes the dish pop with refreshing flavor.
Ingredients
- 12 baby artichokes.
- 1 whole lemon and it’s zest. (that means zest the lemon first)
- 1 cup of black olives, I like Kalamata, or an oil cured olive.
- About 12 pieces of shaved Pecorino Romano cheese. (cheese optional)
- 1 cup of rinsed fresh mint, whole or rough chop is fine.
- Extra virgin olive oil
- salt
- a pinch of crushed red pepper.
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Stuffed Artichokes with Sausage or Not?
By · CommentsRecipe: Stuffed Artichokes with Sausage or Not?
Summary: Stuffed Artichokes with Sausage or substitute for vegetarians
Ingredients
- 4 large artichokes
- 3 spicy links of Italian hot sausage. Casing off the sausage
- 3 cloves of garlic Chopped.
- add 1 tbs of crushed red chili’s ( optional ).
- 1 cup of chopped olives. I like kalamata or oil cured black olives.
- ½ cup of fresh grated cheese.
- 2 whole lemons.
- 1 ½ cups of breadcrumbs. Your call.
