Italian

Eggplant Parmesan: Midweek Dinner if You Fry the Eggplant Ahead of Time

April 15, 2010 by Ellen · Leave a Comment 

On Sunday I picked up a gorgeous eggplant at the grocer  and decided to make Eggplant Parmesan sometime this week. However, it always takes a long time to fry the eggplant. In the past I’ve fried a LOT at once and then made half into eggplant parmesan and frozen the other half for later. (If [...]

Spaghetti with Meat Sauce by Katie Lee Joel

March 29, 2010 by Ellen · Leave a Comment 

I hesitated to try this but yet was intrigued somehow. I cut the recipe mostly in half as I was just looking to feed two  of us plus provide a lunch or two. My daughter packs a lunch for school every day and LOVES leftover spaghetti and sauce. Recently a neighbor had shown her his [...]

Remake: Vegetarian Lasagna with Roasted Red Peppers and Artichoke Hearts

February 4, 2010 by Ellen · 1 Comment 

This vegetarian lasagna is delicious and very hearty! I’ve made it for friends twice and got rave reviews both times and my daughter loves it as well. I got the original recipe from my sister, who made it at Christmas. I made it over the holidays as well, but slightly different. Tonight I made it [...]

Vegetarian Lasagna: Spinach, Artichoke Hearts & Roasted Red Peppers

December 31, 2009 by Ellen · 1 Comment 

This lasagna is full of spinach, chopped mushrooms, artichoke hearts, roasted red peppers and cheese. It has a great flavor and body. My sister made it for Christmas and I made it last night for some friends. It’s great for entertaining, as you make it ahead a bit and then pop into the oven about [...]

Stracciatelle Soup with Meatballs, Pasta, Spinach and Carrots

December 14, 2009 by Ellen · Leave a Comment 

This soup is full of carrots, tiny pasta, little meatballs, spinach and egg. I usually make it with chicken broth but this time used some of the turkey broth I made over the holiday.

Basil Pesto

October 1, 2009 by Ellen · Leave a Comment 

I am going to freeze some of this pesto, so I left out the cheese in the main batch, following my former mother-in-law’s rule as well as Mark Bittman’s advice in How To Cook Everything: Simple Recipes for Great Food, one of my favorite go-to cookbooks. I’ve added some as I went using this on [...]

Chicken Cutlets, Cucumber & Tomato Salad with Cheesy Pasta

August 30, 2009 by Ellen · Leave a Comment 

Chicken cutlets are a favorite around here. I vary them now and then but our absolute favorite is how I prepared them tonight.   The variations I’ve done over the years include pounding rather than slicing thinly, eggs and water for the binding rather than eggs and soy sauce and lemon juice, not marinading at all, [...]

Dom DeLuise Dinner: Egg Croquettes

May 5, 2009 by Ellen · Leave a Comment 

Dom DeLuise died today. I have two of his cookbooks, Eat This .. It’ll Make You Feel Better and Eat This Too: It’ll Make You Feel Better. Both have some great recipes and are fun to read besides. So after hearing he died I decided to alter my dinner plans and cook something from one [...]

Cheese and Spinach Stuffed Shells

March 30, 2009 by Ellen · Leave a Comment 

These were good! The girls protested the spinach a bit, but ate them up. It’s funny because they would each happily eat spinach alone as a side dish. I don’t really like cooked spinach so liked it this way. I started with this recipe from Karen Cooks. I used half a small onion instead of [...]

Prosciutto Breakfast Bagel

February 23, 2009 by Ellen · Leave a Comment 

When I was looking through the Scarpetta cookbook, I spotted Marino’s Breakfast Bagel Sandwich and noted it mentally. Then when I went shopping the prosciutto just about jumped into my shopping basket. NOT cheap cooking. But very delicious. I bought some onion bagels, prosciutto, and Swiss cheese. Split the bagels in half and toasted one [...]

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