Fish and Seafood Archives

Cioppino, an Italian-American Classic

9 October 2011

As regular readers will know, this blog is focused on authentic Italian home cooking, the kind that you might eat […]

24 September 2011

Fregola (also called fregula) is a kind of pasta, typical of Sardinia, that looks and tastes much like Israeli couscous.

18 September 2011

We’ve looked at Angelina’s pollo e patate (chicken and potatoes) and agnello e patate (lamb and potatoes). Well, fish is also exquisite

24 July 2011

I don’t know about you, but when temperatures rise into triple-digits (on the Fahrenheit scale) as they have lately in

19 February 2011

A not-so-distant cousin of Provençale brandade de morue, baccalà mantecato is one of the signature dishes of Venetian cuisine and a

4 February 2011

This will be a short post as I’ve come down with a nasty cold. No matter, since this is a

18 January 2011

The new year brought a rush of activity that had made it hard to keep up with my blogging ‘duties’,

14 November 2010

Bagna cauda or, more properly, bagna caôda, means ‘hot sauce’ in English. It refers to a typical Piedmontese dish for

5 November 2010

While Italian or other European dishes appear on our table most days, once in a while I do like to