So you like tomato sauces as much as I do? Well, it turns out there are countless varieties out there! Italian tomato sauces rule the world. This is certain and it definitely shows in this list of tomato sauces. I thought it would be nice to see and compare between the variations of tomato sauces. This should clear some doubts and … [Read more...]
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Gnocchi Pomodoro Recipe
Gnocchi Pomodoro is a simple delicious Italian dinner meal prepared with tomatoes, olive oil, and basil. This dish is for you if you like Italian pasta and tomato sauce. 📕 What are gnocchi? Gnocchi are a pasta/ dumpling variation. The most famous ones are the North Italian potato gnocchi. Gnocchi can include eggs, but may not. They are boiled in salt … [Read more...]
Skillet Chicken Cordon Bleu Recipe
One-pan juicy skillet chicken cordon bleu, stuffed with melt in your mouth cheese and ham, coated with a crispy golden breading. Discover how to easily make this family dinner favorite from scratch at home. 🍗 Ingredients You will need the following ingredients to make chicken cordon bleu from scratch at home: You can also choose to season the ham and cheese … [Read more...]
Brazil Nut - What is it and How to use it?
The Brazil Nut is a little known nut from Central America. It has been gaining popularity. Here you will learn everything you need to know about this exotic nut. 📕 What is the Brazil Nut? Brazil nuts come from tropical trees that grow in South America, including Brazil, Colombia, Peru, Bolivia, Venezuela, and Ecuador. The trees reach a majestic height of … [Read more...]
Creamy Mushrooms Recipe
Creamy mushrooms are flavorful and can be used with various food. In this recipe post, you will learn how to make it, and I share some great uses and storing options too. This creamy mushroom recipe resembles a mushroom gravy. 🍄 Ingredients Here is what you will need to make homemade creamy mushrooms from scratch. Mushrooms You can use regular white … [Read more...]
Broccoli Radish Salad Recipe
Light and easy broccoli radish salad with a simple vinegar based dressing. Makes a healthy side dish salad. 🥦 Ingredients You will need: Other ingredients that you can add to call this salad your own: cranberries, crispy bacon, feta, walnuts, cashews, raisins, and grapes. 🔪 How to make this salad? This is one of the simplest and at the same time … [Read more...]
Beef Tenderloin Roast with Garlic and Herb in the Dutch Oven
Juicy and perfect oven roasted beef tenderloin seasoned with garlic and herbs and prepared in the Dutch oven. A great meal to celebrate the holidays with your loved ones such as Christmas, Easter, and Thanksgiving. You might also enjoy my Roasted Garlic Pork Tenderloin or this Herb-Roasted Turkey Tenderloin Recipe. 📕 What is Beef Tenderloin? Beef … [Read more...]
Roasted Pork Tenderloin with Garlic Recipe
Roasted Garlic Pork Tenderloin cooked and served in a flavorful sauce. This recipe will help you to learn how to cook pork tenderloin in the oven. 📕 What is pork Tenderloin? Pork tenderloin is also known as fillet, which is a long boneless meat cut in a pig. It's the most tender and usually most expensive meat cut in any animal. The tenderloin should … [Read more...]
Quick Creamed Spinach with Cream Cheese Recipe
Quick creamed spinach prepared with cream cheese within minutes over the stovetop. Recipe includes instructions for fresh and frozen spinach and some ideas to enhance the dish further to your needs. 📕 What's Creamed Spinach? Creamed Spinach is served as a side dish. Fresh or frozen spinach is cooked in a creamy cheese sauce. The creamed spinach was mainly … [Read more...]
Baked Spiced Salmon Fillet Recipe
Perfectly cooked moist oven-baked salmon fillet prepared and enhanced with healthy spices. This dish isn't spicy hot but rather aromatic. Prepare your salmon fillet and enjoy a low-carb quick and easy dinner meal. 🧄 Ingredients that you will need 🔪 How to bake this spiced salmon dish? Here is an overview of how to prepare this dish from scratch within … [Read more...]
Baked Cannelloni with Spinach Recipe
Baked creamy, cheesy Cannelloni with spinach. A perfect splendid family dinner meal! 📕 What are Cannelloni? Cannelloni are a tube shaped Italian pasta variety. They can be stuffed and baked similiar to other pasta shells. Manicotti are much like cannelloni and can be used as a substitute instead of cannelloni. You can fill your pasta tubes with … [Read more...]
How to can Mushrooms
Your guide on how to can mushrooms of all kinds at home from scratch. Learn how to stock up your modern homestead with home canned mushrooms. 📕 What are canned mushrooms? Mushrooms that are preserved in a can or jar are called canned mushrooms. It's the stuff that you can buy in cans in your local grocery store. But before commercially canned mushrooms … [Read more...]
How to cook Spaghetti Squash in the oven
Your guide on how to cook spaghetti squash easily from scratch in the oven. That's the simplest and most effortless option! 📕 What's Spaghetti Squash? Spaghetti Squash is a winter squash variety and is just one of many squash varieties out there. They come in yellow, orange and white variations and can grow to different sizes. Spaghetti squash are … [Read more...]
Mediterranean Couscous Salad Recipe
A light and healthy Mediterranean couscous salad. Perfect and refreshing for a hot summer day, this salad is quick and easy to make and is packed with nutrition. It is a good source of vitamins, minerals, and protein. 📕 What is couscous? Couscous is a grain preparation made of small granules of crushed durum wheat semolina. Dishes made from couscous … [Read more...]
Cream Cheese Spinach Stuffed Chicken Breast Recipe
Cream cheese and spinach stuffed chicken breast in a creamy flavorful sauce baked in the oven. This quick and easy healthier low carb dish will please your family! 🔪 How to prepare this dish? We love to prepare dish stuffed chicken dinner meal because it's easy to prepare, and creamy cheese and spinach is a delicious combination. Here is an overview how … [Read more...]
Guide to Italian Food in Italy
So, you are planning a trip to Italy and Italian food is your passion? This guide covers dishes and drinks that you will come across in Italy and that you will need to try if you love food! You will also learn everything you need to know to get around with your taste buds. No matter where you are in Italy, the food is always awesome! Yet, sometimes it can get … [Read more...]
Guide to Florence Italy
A transparent travel guide to Florence in Italy. Plan your vacation to the great Tuscan city after social distancing times. This guide has a focus on getting there by car at the bottom of the article. What is Florence Italy famous for? Florence (called Firenze by the locals) is located in Tuscany, a region in central Italy, Europe. The city is known for being … [Read more...]
Fava Beans - How to prep, cook and store
Fava beans (aka broad beans) are incredibly nutritious beans! In this post, you will learn how to prep cook and store them. 📕 What are fava beans? Fava beans are also called broad beans in some regions in this world. They are large green beans growing and sitting in a thick, slightly hairy, thick green pod. The pods can get about 6-7 inches long and one … [Read more...]
Balsamic Chicken Breast Recipe
A quick recipe for Balsamic Chicken Breasts cooked in one-pan. With a simple seasoning and without honey all low-carb. This flavorful chicken prepared with balsamic vinegar marination counts as an easy meal idea. I discuss the marination ingredients, explain how you can make it from scratch and share my serving ideas with you in this post. 📕 The … [Read more...]
Lemon Chicken Piccata Recipe
Irresistible Chicken Piccata coated with Parmesan and served with a citrusy lemon sauce. My low-carb chicken dinner meal is quickly and easily prepared in one skillet. What is Chicken Piccata? Chicken Piccata is an Italian dish, which originally was prepared with thin slices of veal meat. The chicken version is called Piccata di pollo in Italian. Piccata refers … [Read more...]
Bolognese Sauce Recipe
Get carried away to Italy with a homemade beef bolognese sauce. The flavors are spot on! Use the tomato meat sauce over spaghetti or in a lasagne and serve it up on a weeknight! 📕 What is Bolognese Sauce? A bolognese sauce consists mainly of ground meat, wine, and tomato sauce (amongst other seasonings). This sauce originated in the Italian city of … [Read more...]
Bechamel Sauce Recipe
Bechamel Sauce is a basic french sauce, also called and known as the white sauce. This sauce is used in lasagne, in casserole dishes, pasta meals and more. 📕 What is Bechamel? Bechamel Sauce (actually spelled Béchamel) is one of the five basic mother sauces in French classic cuisine. They are called mother sauces because other french sauces can be based on … [Read more...]
+20 Copycat Restaurant Recipes
Collection of copycat recipes to get us through these tough times. That way we can still bring some normalcy into our lives and at least make and eat food from our favorite food chains at home. This will be especially useful, if delivery services in your area are not delivering your favorite take out food to your home or if the food chains had to temporarily close … [Read more...]
Creamy Avocado Dressing Recipe
Green creamy avocado dressing is delightfully good in so many ways. The simple dressing is vegan dairy-free, perfect for a plant-based diet, and healthy because it's low carb and gluten-free. 🔪 How to prepare the dressing? You will only need a handful of ingredients to make this avocado dressing. Get fresh ripe avocados and you are almost good to go. Here … [Read more...]
Oregano Herb Uses and Recipes
Oregano is a versatile culinary herb! Here you will learn everything you need to know about this amazing herb and how you can use it in your daily cooking. 📕 What is Oregano? Oregano is a culinary green herb. The leaves are spade-shaped and are about 1/2-1 inch or 1-2 cm big. The leaves can be used fresh or dried in our cooking. Dried leaves are more … [Read more...]
Italian Seasoning Recipe
Your homemade Italian seasoning recipe to make endless quantities of this amazing flavorful blend. That way you will never run out of this essential mix of herbs and spices. 📕 What is Italian Seasoning? Italian Seasoning is an invention from folks who are not Italian and living in Italy. The idea is to infuse food with the typical Italian flavors by using … [Read more...]
20 min Tomato Basil Soup Recipe
Homemade Tomato Basil Soup makes for a lovely comforting dinner and I can never get enough of this recipe. This soup is for you if you are looking for an easy dinner meal prepared with fresh tomatoes within 20 minutes. Originally, back in 2012, I called it a soup a la provencale. The soup is inspired by the south french, Provence region, which means it's a … [Read more...]
Penne Alla Vodka Recipe
Penne alla vodka is a quick and easy vegetarian dinner meal. This recipe is for you if you are looking for homemade comfort food prepared in less than 30 minutes. Penne alla vodka is such a popular dish in Italian restaurants, that you need to try it. I make it when I need a quick weeknight meal and I’m feeling uninspired in my kitchen. This dish is ready within … [Read more...]
Turmeric Spice, Uses + Recipes
Turmeric spice can be easily included in your cooking. I show you how in this post. Also, why is turmeric such a great spice, which one should you buy and a selection of recipes with turmeric to choose from. 📕 What is turmeric? Turmeric is a yellow-orange root that has been used as a spice in Indian and Asian cooking for centuries. Turmeric is also known … [Read more...]
Italian Caprese Salad Recipe
Caprese Salad is an easy Mediterranean salad prepared with a handful of fresh ingredients. Make this Italian salad all year round and enjoy for lunch or as an appetizer or make it your own with my flavor options! Caprese Salad makes me happy, and I can eat it all the time, not just in summer. My husband was mesmerized by the flavors the moment he was introduced to … [Read more...]
Chicken Marsala with Mushrooms Recipe
Creamy flavorful chicken marsala, served up with an elegant quick and easy to prepare mushroom sauce for dinner. This is a great date night, one pan skillet, low carb/keto chicken recipe! (yep all that) This creamy chicken marsala with mushrooms was inspired by the olive garden dish. So, in a way, it's a copycat recipe, but I wanted to stay true to the classic … [Read more...]
Pastina Soup Recipe
A quick, simple pastina soup for when the days are cold, and you are feeling under the weather. Make this clear Italian pasta soup within minutes in one pot only. 📕 What is Pastina? Pastina is a soup made with a variety of tiny shaped pasta that originated in Italy. The most common pastina pasta soups are made with the star shaped stelline, which may or may … [Read more...]
3 Cheese Tortellini Soup with Ham Recipe
3 cheese tortellini soup enriched with ham pieces makes a comforting winter meal for the family. Stuffed with incredible satisfying flavors, this soup is sure to make an impact. I love tortellini and one of the best ways to enjoy them, besides topped with a creamy cheese sauce, is to make a soup with them. Tortellini are stuffed Italian pasta, so combining them … [Read more...]
Individual Beef Wellington Recipe
An Individual Beef Wellington makes for a delicious, pretty and elegant main course meal this holiday season. Serve them up to your family and friends for Christmas or New Year's for dinner. 📕 What is Beef Wellington? Beef Wellington tenderloin filet steak topped with a mushroom duxelles and wrapped into a puff pastry. The English dish is also known as boeuf … [Read more...]
Ebly - How to cook Instant French Wheat Berries
Here is how we cook ebly, instant wheat berries, in France. Cooked wheat berries make for a lovely side dish that you can serve up instead of rice. I explain further below all the details about ebly wheatberries and what to look out for. 🌾 What are Wheat Berries? Wheat Berries are whole wheat kernels without the hull and husk. They come in yellow or red … [Read more...]
Salmon in Parchment Paper with Herbs
Salmon in parchment paper is an elegant and healthy fish meal. The fish fillet cooked in parchment in the oven is low carb, nutritious and incredibly easy to prepare. 📕 What is it? Salmon in parchment is a salmon filet wrapped in parchment. The French Mediterranean dish is also known as salmon en papillote or a salmon fish pouch. En Papillote is a … [Read more...]
Sauteed Swiss Chard Recipe with Bacon
One Pan sauteed swiss chard with bacon is a delightful low carb dinner meal idea. Watch how I prepare this easy recipe from scratch with garden-fresh swiss chard in my video further below. The complete recipe with tips and more is waiting for you further below in the post. Do you enjoy low carb one pan skillet dinner meals just like this sauteed swiss chard with … [Read more...]
Classic Jägerschnitzel Recipe
Enjoy this classic Jägerschnitzel recipe in a creamy mushroom sauce this fall. The meat dish is also spelled as Jagerschnitzel or Jaegerschnitzel or Jager Schnitzel. 📕 What is Jägerschnitzel? The classic Jägerschnitzel is a flattened non-breaded Schnitzel meat variation cooked and served in a creamy white wine mushroom sauce. The dish is popular in Austria, … [Read more...]
How to make Spaetzle Recipe
Best Spaetzle recipe, delicious and so easy to make! Spaetzle are made with a spaetzle maker or spaetzle press. Learn how I make my homemade Spaetzle recipe further below with the video and step by step instructions. 📕 What are Spaetzle? I love to make fresh pasta and noodles because it tastes amazing. What I don't like about fresh pasta is … [Read more...]
Basil Cashew Pesto Recipe
Nothing beats freshly made basil cashew pesto! You can use a mortar and pestle or food processor to prepare this flavorful basil cashew pesto sauce from scratch. This pesto recipe with cashews is based on the traditional Genoa Pesto from Italy. You can use it as a bread spread or in pasta, such as in this mozzarella pesto pasta. Discover more ideas and uses further … [Read more...]