Italian Cuisine

Cannoli

January 8, 2010 |

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Holy Cannoli, these are awesome!! As a good Italian girl, I’ve been enjoying cannoli for a long time, but I had yet to learn how they were actually made, until this holiday season. Sure you could buy the shells and fill them with a homemade filling, but I’m talking honest-to-goodness homemade, from start to finish. [...]

Italian Sausage, Red Pepper and Mushroom Risotto

September 27, 2009 |

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This risotto dish is one of the very first meals that I taught myself how to cook and it quickly became a favorite with my family. Yesterday was my mom’s birthday and I offered to make her dinner and told her to pick the menu and I’d make whatever she wanted. It took her all [...]

Polenta Pizza

September 11, 2009 |

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You may remember that a couple of weeks back my polenta pizza was featured on In Jennie’s Kitchen as a guest post. As I wrote in that post, the first time I made this dish I made it as a thin-crust pizza (the polenta serving as the crust) for dinner and it was absolutely fabulous. [...]

Polenta Pizza: Guest Post on In Jennie’s Kitchen

August 28, 2009 |

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Arancini: Italian Rice Balls

August 10, 2009 |

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You all may remember back when I made pizzelles earlier this summer that I had found the recipe in a book, Always on Sunday, written about Italian family traditions. As it turns out, the author’s daughter came across her mom’s recipe here on Brown Eyed Baker, shared it with her mom, who then emailed me [...]

Italian Wedding Soup: Guest Post on Carrie’s Kitchen Creations

August 6, 2009 |

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Carrie of Carrie’s Kitchen Creations reached out to fellow bloggers asking if anyone would be interested in guest posting while she adjusts to life with a newborn, and I was happy to volunteer. I decided to do a throw back to the very first post here on Brown Eyed Baker – Italian Wedding Soup – [...]

Spumoni Ice Cream Terrine

July 31, 2009 |

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When I asked my Chief Culinary Consultant last week if he had any ideas for new ice cream flavors since I still had two more Fridays left for celebrating July’s National Ice Cream Month, he offered up quite a few great ones, but the one we both got excited about was spumoni. I haven’t had [...]