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Lil' Italy Burger
It's all there, distinct flavors of Italy-prosciutto, fontina cheese, porcini mushrooms, grilled tomatoes, and fresh basil-in each and every bite. We surrounded ours with toasted Caramelized Onion...
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Insalata di Riso - Italian Rice Salad (Pressure Cooker)
1 commentSimple, refreshing and wholly Italian, salad should be an addition to summer repertoire. It is called a salad, but it is often served as a meal in a plate - with nothing other than some chilled...
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Chicken Cacciatore, Creole-Style
Chicken Cacciatore is a light tomato sauce with hearty mushrooms and accents of fresh basil. The Creole seasoning infuses a pleasant heat and depth in the sauce, wrapping each strand of pasta in...
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Rigatoni alla Castellana
In addition to thinly sliced pork and thick, chewy rigatoni pasta, this Pasta alla Castellna soaks up flavor from bacon, cream, brandy and cheese. But the fattening ingredients are balanced by a...
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Prosciutto-Wrapped Caprese Salad Appetizer
Caprese salad is all about impeccably fresh ingredients, there is no room for compromise when the ingredients are few.
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Carbonara ai Carciofi - Arichoke, Pancetta & Egg Sauce (Pressure Cooker)
The luxurious and silky Carbonara sauce, dotted with smoky pancetta, helps the artichoke's naturally nutty and sweet flavor bloom. Carbonara is a fairly new traditional dish in Italy ...
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Finding My Christmas Spirit
I think I just found my Christmas spirit...Grappa enhances this crumbly, Italian torte called Fregolotta, and is also served alongside. Fregolotta s a crumbly, cracker-like confection from...
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Bollito con Salsa Verde Rustica- Italian Pressure Cooker Boiled Beef with Rustic Green Sauce
Boiling meat in the pressure cooker can turn chewy nerves and ligaments from a cheap cut of eat into gelatin in about an hour. What really makes this dish unique is the rustic green sauce - a tangy...
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Potage di Marroni - Pressure Cooked Chestnut Potage
The fruits of autumn are a bright spot of what would ordinarily be a dull, gray season. Chestnuts, in particular, are so versatile. They can be served both in savory and sweet dishes, they can be...
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Better Pressure Cooker Pasta: Mezzemaniche Pasticciate - "Baked" Half-sleeve Mess
In Italy, whenever you bake a pasta that is not a specifically designed to be baked (like lasagne and cannelloni) you get a delicious pasticcio... mess! This recipe can actually end up as one of...
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Better Pressure Cooker Pasta: Pipe Cacio e Pepe - the Roman Mac 'n Cheese
This recipe is the Roman version of Mac 'n Cheese - fresher, lighter and well... Italian! Even though you add the "sauce" after pressure cooking, this recipe takes advantage of the...
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Pressure Cooker Pasta: Farfalle all'Arrabbiata - Angry (spicy) Butterflies - the secret to al dente pressure cooked pasta!
The literal translation of Arrabiata is Angry but that what Italians call something hot and spicy like this pasta! Cooked in the sauce, and not just coated with it, the pasta changes color and...
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Pressure Cooker Wine "Poached" Figs on Yougurt Creme (it's low-fat, shhhh!)
Sticky sweet figs burst with flavor and freshness when paired with yogurt creme and crunchy pine nuts! The wine used in the steaming liquid and then reduced with a little sugar or honey to make...
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Italian Plum Tart
I made this beautiful Italian Plum Tart for a Roman cuisine themed picnic. It's made with Italian plums I found at our local Farmers' Market that morning. Italian plums, sometimes...
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Insalata di Patate: Italian Potato Salad (Pressure Cooker)
1 commentThis salad, and slight variations of the same in France (Salade de Pommes de Terre), Germany and Austria (Kartoffelsalat), is a popular summer dish in Europe.
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Easy Pressure Steamed Fish alla Mediterranea
Do you always eat fish with lemon? Try using tarty and sweet cherry tomatoes and vinegary capers, instead! Salty olives and husky Thyme add excitement to an otherwise ho-hum white fish fillet.
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Crispy Braised Chicken Thighs, with olives, lemon and fennel
2 commentsThis Crispy Braised Chicken with Olives, Lemon and Fennel is from Thomas Keller's Ad Hoc at Home. The flavors meld beautifully together with the help of quite a bit of chicken fat, but...
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Alfredo Penne with Cedar Plank Grilled Chicken
4 commentsI like this recipe for its accents of garlic, lemon, and mix of Parmesan and Romano cheeses. Remarkably easy to prepare at home, this simple sauce creates the perfect canvas for all sorts of...
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Spaghetti Bolognese: Ragu Magnifico!
2 commentsOver the years, this rich, meaty sauce has won a special place in the hearts of family and friends—it feels like I am giving away a secret family recipe, but what is food if you cannot share...
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A New Venitian Dish form your pressure cooker!
A unique appetizer that continues cooking right in front of you! The mussels are steamed for one minute in the pressure cooker and served on a bed of radicchio and spinach that wilts in the briny...
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Pressure Cooker Creme Caramel
This is a dessert that never fails to impress. It is incredibly easy, but requires you to learn a new skill - making caramel. Pressure cook this flan in 10 minutes and the transformation to...
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Spaghetti alla Lucana
Inspired by a local Italian restaurant's special menu featuring the food and wine from the Basilicata region of Italy, I made this Spaghetti alla Lucana from the region...
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Pressure Cooked Milk-poached Fennel
1 commentFive minutes at low pressure you'll have a healthy, delicious and unexpected side dish to accompany meat or poultry.
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Pasta e Ceci - Cozy Pressure Cooker Minestrone
A peasant dish has never been so tasty, or fast!
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Faggiolini in Umido - "Wet" Freen Beans - Pressure Cooker
A multi-use recipe that can be served as a side dish, or used as a sauce to be enjoyed with pasta, polenta or rice! In umido, literally translated to "wet", is actually a reference to Italian cooking...
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Goat Cheese with Honey, Aged Balsamic & Pear
Simple, clean, yet full and harmonious, this combination can be served with crackers or crusty bread as an appetizer, side dish, or dessert.
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Osso Buco Style Beef Short Ribs
2 commentsDo you ever make a new recipe and feel like you just discovered gold? This is one of those recipes. Succulent beef and tender vegetables that just melt in your mouth-low and slow deliver braised beef...
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Meyer Lemon and Basil Panna Cotta with Blackberry Puree
Panna cotta ("cooked cream") is a silken, eggless, Italian custard, made by simmering cream, milk and sugar, mixing with gelatin, and then allowing the custard to chill until set. It is an...
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My New Kitchen Treasure
3 commentsMy quest for one of these beautiful and unique artisanal pasta tools began when I saw Fine Cooking's video series on handmade pastas (Fine Cooking Culinary School: Handmade Pastas). One of the videos...
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Easy & Elegant Shrimp Scampi
This simple yet elegant dish makes any occasion special. Serve with crusty bread to capture every garlic-lemon-butter bite. Recently served this as an accent over a grilled filet -- amazing!
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Torta di Sant' Antonio - Apple and Red Wine Crostata
This gorgeous, rustic, Italian crostata is from the Alpine village of Oulx. It's made with apples, red wine, cinnamon, and orange zest, and pairs beautifully with whipped cream or vanilla ice...
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Brown Butter Pasta with Pine Nuts and Fried Eggs
This simple and deeply satisfying pasta is from Gabrielle Hamilton, chef-owner of Prune in New York City. It is featured in her article, Open House, the hard-won pleasures of Sunday lunch. Gabriella...
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Jam-Filled Ricotta Pastries - Sharing the Tuscan Tradition
Jam-Filled Ricotta Pastries, from Twelve: A Tuscan Cookbook. Use your own homemade jam, or a nice gourmet jam from the market, for these Tuscan "Pop-Tarts." Lovely for dessert, morning...
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Chicken with Mustard Mascarpone Marsala Sauce
2 commentsIn Giada's version of Chicken Marsala, the chicken breasts are not pounded or coated in flour. She also adds Mascarpone cheese and Dijon mustard, which provide a rich, velvety creaminess...
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Pasta in Creamy Asparagus & Green Pea Pesto
You can go wild with the ingredients you put together in making a pasta sauce. But the best way to be creative as well as enjoy some fresh flavors of a pasta recipe is to try seasonal ingredients and...
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Pineapple and Pear Mostarda
Mostarda, an Italian condiment made with candied fruit and a mustard-wine syrup, pairs nicely with roasted meat. This version, with pineapple and pear, is especially tasty with pork roast or...
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