Category: Italian

Chicken Cutlets

Chicken Cutlets This basic bread crumb mixture will work with anything including beef, veal, chicken or even fish (maybe not as much grated...

Italian Lentils

Italian Lentils Lentils in my house were traditionally served on New Year's Day as a sign of health and wealth, as they are in other...

Tuscan Meatballs

Tuscan Meatballs These are a break from the regular red gravy meatballs and have a more savory taste with the use of mushrooms and brown gravy....

Escarole & Beans

Escarole & Beans This is one of those simplest peasant dishes any family could afford for pennies per serving. All you need is a handful of...

Stuffed Mushrooms

Stuffed Mushrooms INGREDIENTS 1/4 cup fresh chopped parsley 1/2 cup panko breadcrumbs 1 clove fresh garlic 1/4 cup grated...

Meatloaf

Meatloaf This is my own invention.  It simply derived from leftover feta cheese I did not want to throw out, and an abundance of sun-dried...

Caprese Pasta

Caprese Pasta No time to cook? No problem. Boil the pasta and by time it takes you to shower this could be ready. If you have time to pour wine,...

Sunday Gravy

Sunday Gravy Sauce Sunday Gravy, meat sauce, or, the “Red Lead” as the character Tony Soprano used to call it.  My family too came from Newark,...

Meatballs

Meatballs INGREDIENTS:  1 pound Ground beef, pork, lamb (combined) 1/4 cup (1 small onion) chopped fine 3/4 cup fresh breadcrumbs OR...