Ciao di nuovo! It's been another long while since I've posted. I have not been cooking anything interesting. In fact before m...

While reading my previous post about Mariangela's Pizza dough , my boyfriend and his parents went through a range of emotions: Upon s...

I'm back! Sort of :).  In May of 2008, I first fell in love with Italy. For my first solo trip abroad, I visited Firenze, Pisa,...

Whenever my mother comes to visit, I know that there are two places she will want to visit: 1) Her favorite bubble tea place - Tap...

My blog has caused me to realize that I like Italian food more than any other International food. The reason could also lie in the fact that...

I wrote "Daring Cooks" with a question mark in the title because I didn't really follow the instructions in this challenge (a...

My mom's pizza: tomatoes, olives, mushrooms, jalapeños, onions, sauce, and mozzarella cheese. In May of last year, I made this clone re...

Click on the above photo and enlarge it to see this beautiful pasta closely. On our way back from the berry farm , my mother and I stopped ...

Chicken Carbonara?! What?! But Carbonara is supposed to have guanciale (pork cheek), pancetta or at least bacon! Well, I didn't have any...

When I went to Italy a few years ago, I was able to try my very first gelato al limone (Lemon Gelato). It was a hot, dusty day in Firenze (...

More than three years ago, I joined an online weight-loss group on xanga.com . I had lost a lot of weight, gained it back, lost it again, an...