When I learned pasta was the theme for this month’s love bloghop, I had dozens upon dozens of recipes go through my mind. You see, pasta of any kind is a huge pantry staple here – I’m 1/4th Italian (which pretty much like being 100% Italian) and I was pratically weaned onto semolina flour. My …
It was 60° over the weekend. Yippee! (My kids even rummaged around in the bins of stored summer clothes and found some shorts to wear.) March appears to be coming in like a lamb. And we’re just week’s away from spring but while fresh local produce is still months many days away, I find myself itching …
When I was a kid, my mom would make escarole pastina soup or “ska-role” soup as my Italian-American family from South Philly would call it. She would serve me and my sister bowlfuls with one limp escarole leaf and one cooked carrot that we had to try as a “learning taste.” I remember holding my …