by Flora Caputo | Nov 20, 2017 | Recipes, Uncategorized
Semolina is not just for pasta! One of my favorite desserts that my mom handed down to me is a semolina egg cake. Her cake was handed down by her mother, and that recipe used lard. The semolina creates a cake that has more of a flan-custard texture versus a flour...
by Flora Caputo | Nov 15, 2017 | Recipes, Uncategorized
*******************Thanksgiving is around the corner and I am sure many of you are roughing out menu plans, as I was doing last night! My favorite course is dessert. I love pies, and they are often a focal point of the dessert course. I gathered all my favorite...
by Flora Caputo | Nov 13, 2017 | Recipes, Uncategorized
My mom has been sharing tasty-esque videos on Facebook, which is totally cute. But they are all in Italian. They are often delicious looking, but converting things to our measurements can get tedious, and don’t always end up being perfect rounded...
by Flora Caputo | Nov 11, 2017 | Recipes, Uncategorized
Everyone has that dog-eared, well-loved old cookbook that is there go-to, that cookbook that may need to end up in the coffin with you when you go to the great beyond? That cookbook for me is one I found in a thrift store from an Italian cook, Maria Esposito....
by Flora Caputo | Nov 5, 2017 | Recipes, Uncategorized
Girls’ night and weekends at our house means hubby is fishing with the guys, and we have the kitchen to ourselves. So I tend to cook what monkey-girl prefers. Seafood is definitely one of the things on the list. We usually cook up some shrimp in some...
by Flora Caputo | Nov 2, 2017 | Recipes, Uncategorized
Eggplant Involtini (Eggplant Cheese Roll Ups)Ingredients eggplants2 large eggplants or 4 small/medium ones, peeled and ends cut off 3 eggs, gently beaten 1 cup of flour 1 tablespoon of dried parsley 1/2 teaspoon of garlic powder 1/2...
