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Spumoni Blondies
I have a feeling we’re all a little cookied out. But this year seemed to be the year of the cookie swap, and I’ve loved seeing all the festivities celebrating the multitude of cookies that abound. Recently, my aunt hosted a cookie swap, asking each of us who went to bake 8 dozen cookies! You…
Fresh Pasta Dough Recipe
At the Zani house, there isn’t a Christmas spent without pasta. It’s often hand-cranked, cut, or stuffed. And so while we get ready to prepare the Christmas Eve menu of cavatelli and buttery crabmeat-stuffed sole, I’m simultaneously scavenging for gifts. Except for his year, I was inspired to simplify with handmade fresh pasta. In this…
Sfogliatelle (cheaters version)
Sfogliatelle is one of the Italian pastry seniors. Hailing from Campania, Italy, specifically “a nun’s convent on the Amalfi coast”, the pastry is floral, just like your grandmother’s perfume, layered with decades of history, showing up in Italian pastry cases next to Italian giants, cannoli, pasticciotto, and bomboloni. There are two kinds: sfogliatelle riccia (crispy…
Yellow Cake With Whipped Chocolate Frosting
Over here we like a good cake moment, cue the Baskin Robbins commercial theme song my mom and I love to chant “ice cream and cake and cake!” My favorite cake of all time is a boxed yellow cake mix with canned chocolate frosting. For someone who grew up eating home cooked meals and deeply…
Franki X Sake No Hana & parmigiano
This week I’m telling tales about Parmigiano Reggiano and a Japanese Italian fusion dinner I went to. But first a little background; when I went to Parma over 2 years ago on a press trip to learn about this celebrity of cheeses, I tasted and smelled and learned about the lifecycle of a Parmigiano wheel….