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...
by Flora Caputo | Oct 30, 2017 | Recipes, Uncategorized
I had a moment of ingenuity in the kitchen last week. I hate when I have more than one egg white left over from a recipe. So I decided to whip up some healthy treats using two egg whites for me and my hubby. We are trying to cut down on gluten and sugar, and these fit...
by Flora Caputo | Oct 25, 2017 | Recipes, Uncategorized
If you are a follower of my little blog, you may have noticed a plethora of apple pie recipes. I made it my mission a few years ago to win my parish’s apple pie contest. And as everything I set my mind to, I practiced, developed and experimented each year with...
by Flora Caputo | Oct 18, 2017 | Recipes, Uncategorized
We are having some lagging summer fruit that needed to be “dealt with”. I know that sounds really negative as if our fruit was throwing a temper tantrum and needed to go in time out. That’s not the case at all. But we had some fresh, late-season...
by Flora Caputo | Oct 17, 2017 | Crafting, Uncategorized
Have you shopped for chairs lately? Geeze-a-loo! They are a couple hundred bucks a chair! If you want to seat at least 6 people, then add a nice sized table with leaves, you are looking at a lot of money. Add to the fact that sometimes these pieces of furniture...
by Flora Caputo | Oct 14, 2017 | Recipes, Uncategorized
My 70 year Italian mom is so cute on Facebook. Lately, she has been sharing Italian “Tasty” videos like the rest of us Americans. But I have to say, the Italian ones are a lot more labor intensive yet look a lot more fresh and delicious. Just...
