Eggplant are a bit out of season, but we’re in ‘merica, so you can find most vegetables all year round. I can’t say that this is a good thing, they usually (...)
I missed my 8 year anniversary of Italicious, it should feel like a great sense of accomplishment, 8 years is a long time to keep something like this going. I (...)
My dear friend Angie offered to trim my baby’s bangs the other day and not only did she clean up her little head, I got to enjoy her company and she sent me (...)
Bursts of inspiration, we haven’t had a lot of them, at least I haven’t. My husband, on the other hand, has been having a lot of fun in kitchen, much of it is (...)
It’s martedì grasso, or Mardis Gras. Sadly they don’t celebrate around these parts, or if they do it isn’t something that children attend, it’s just another (...)
I’ve been a little harried since we moved to Washington, I will not lie. With all of the moves that I have experienced, back and forth from Italy, experiencing (...)
Late! Late by 21 days, or 2 months! I’ll let you be the judge. These are my New Years Day black eyed peas, because like any true Southern Girl, I have my (...)
Never again will a deviled egg go unpickled in this house. What started as an aesthetic curiosity has now become a cult following, I am that cult, a cult of (...)
7 years! It is shocking that another year has gone by and we find ourselves on the opposite end of the world, again. Italicious has served in some ways as a (...)
Farfalle with Roman beans, tomato confit and salmon
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The hiatus has been too long, the blog world must be worried that we aren’t eating here in Seattle, or closer to the reality, eating poorly. I can’t say that (...)
I read an article some time ago about the giant octopi that live in Puget Sound, knowing that we would eventually be moving to Seattle, I got really excited by (...)
Two things that we tried our best to use up before we left Italy, capers that our neighbor cultivated and cured, and our giant jar of alacce, which are like (...)
Orecchiette with basil and pistachio pesto and green Pesto beans
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An excuse? Yes, I have several excuses for not having posted in a month. My most obvious is summer with two kids at home, one a very small (yet swiftly (...)
Despite the fact that my daughter is no longer elated with a plate of pink pasta, and instead of diving into a steaming plate of fucshia, she questions it with (...)
With the celebration of my daughter’s 3 month birthday, I thought that I would post my first actual recipe after a long and exhaustive pause. Despite the fact (...)
Orecchiette with grated squash, walnuts, and ricotta salata
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Living in Puglia we eat a lot of orecchiette with broccoli rabe, I order it at most restaurants and according to my husband I have perfected the dish in my own (...)
I’m going back to a recipe that I posted in my first years of blogging, La Genovese, which is a classic Neapolitan dish, or dishes for that matter. A roast (...)
Neapolitan comfort food. This is a favorite of my husband’s and was a must have when his mother was here. He has attempted this recipe several times and I (...)
I had the best intentions of posting regularly when my mother-in-law was in town or at least after she left, but it has been over 2 weeks since her departure (...)
Stuffed esacarole and escarole pizza are two very important staples at the Neapolitan Christmas table. My mother-in-law has been here since the beginning of (...)
We have very generous neighbors, they bring us delicious fresh ricotta, farm fresh eggs, jarred tomatoes and their own wine. I am always at a loss as to what I (...)
I can’t say that veggie burgers have ever really been my thing, therefore the desire to make them in my own kitchen really never existed. I do love lentils and (...)
I have made many an ode to octopus and feel as though my time in Puglia has been all about the discovery of this highly intelligent creature and all of the (...)
