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Spinach Vegetarian Lasagna

I’m off to Mexico, which isn’t very Italian of me, but it’s a lot warmer there than it is in Italy. And a ton less expensive. Plus, I’m traveling to Puerto Escondido, a small beach town that has a huge Italian population.

But I doubt they have anything like my very own spinach vegetarian lasagna recipe. [...]

Chicken Sausage and Pepper Pasta Recipe

My neighbors make a lot of noise. Tonight, I thought about throwing this at them. Glad I didn't.

This afternoon, I found a sausage and pasta recipe on epicurious.com that I basically had all the ingredients for.

By basically, I mean that the ingredients in my kitchen were a little different than what they suggested. [...]

MTV's Jersey Shore vs. Barilla Commercials - What's Worse?

All kinds of Italian American groups are having a hissy fit over MTV’s new reality tv show “Jersey Shore.” The show, which airs this Thursday night, documents the exploits of Italian Americans on the Jersey Shore. The critics are freaking out over the way MTV has described the cast as “guidos” in promos for the [...]

Pasta Fritte Recipe: Italian Fried Dough

Check out this video of my mom, my sister and I making pasta fritte. This Northern Italian dish is fried dough, which you then stuff with cold cuts like salami and cheese.

Ingrediants:

Pillsbury Hot Roll Mix, prepared according to directions on box
flour
3 cups olive oil
salami, cheese and other cold cuts

Directions:

How to Avoid Catching the Flu While Sharing Italian Food

It can make you fat and give you the flu.

After 15 people died from the swine flu in Italy, churchgoers stopped dipping their hands into the communal holy water fountains, worried an infected person may have done the same.

So this smartypants invented an electronic holy water fountain for churches. It works like automatic [...]

Italian Food Cures for the Flu and Swine Flu

Will contaminating enemies with the swine flu be a new form of revenge within the Mafia?

I’m no doctor, but I’ve had my fair share of flus, both the regular kind and the Irish kind.

Here are my favorite Italian food cures for the flu (and perhaps the Swine Flu):

Italian Flu Cure #1: Ditalini Noodles [...]

Quiz: What's your Italian food I.Q.?

Think you know it all about Italian food?

Prove it by taking this quiz about pasta, pizza and other Italian goodies.

Pasta Meat Sauce

I like eating this cold at midnight

I love my mom for many reasons. But her meat pasta sauce (aka Bolognese sauce) is right up there in the top five reasons why she rules.

Before you start chopping onions, make sure you have a free afternoon to let this sauce simmer (with occasional stirring) for at [...]

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