We are making focaccia (all the time). Focaccia is my favorite comfort food in the whole wide world. It’s a pan-baked, bread-style of pizza, created with a technique that is a traditional staple from Italy with intense texture, and authentic flavor. Each region of Italy has it’s own flavor and style, and I’m sharing what has been passed down from generation to generation from my mom’s home-country and small town of Tricarico.
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making pizza
It is time I show you how making pizza is done at our home. I’m using either our Italian master dough recipe passed-down to us by Nonna, or my simple no-knead dough recipe, with outstanding results every time. You’ll enjoy the bite of a crisped outer crust, golden bottom, satisfying air pockets throughout, an awesome texture and chew, for amazing flavor, made with any toppings you can dream-up.
Nonna’s Rapini “Stufate”
Nonna is sharing her simple, one-pot recipe for cooking Rapini (or Broccoli Rabe), with an end result that is tender and full of flavor. “Stufate” is a slang term for the authentic Italian method of stewing stubborn or bitter leafy-vegetable greens like rapini, turnip, mustard, or just about any type of greens you would like to cook.
easy ice cream upgrades
Ice cream is my family’s all-time favorite dessert. We regularly go out for premium flavors, and keep our freezer stocked, all year around. It’s fun, and our special little-something to look forward to. Ice cream shops are a great experience, and grocery stores have decent options, but nothing compares to the easy ice cream upgrades we can make at home with plain/base vanilla or chocolate, to be totally transformed into fancy, super-awesome flavors that are beyond-premium.
Italian cucumber-tomato salad
Cucumber-Tomato salad takes me back to my childhood days, and is something I love to eat all the summer-time. The simple, pure-Italian flavor is so good and refreshing. Pair this with crusty bread, and a meal is served. In the heat of the summers growing up, when I was always spending time with my Italian family, we would pick freshness from the garden, and make a great big salad for lunch, because it was just too hot to cook.