Lately I am on a bit of a roll with Italian soup recipes. And why not? Soups provide a lot of bang for your buck. They can be so easy to imagine and cook up, the return on investment is high. I cooked up this Italian Soup With Orrechiette Pasta, Spinach and Pancetta the other night for dinner, and it was quite the hit. Admittedly, I am not the biggest tomato fan (unless it is a tomato sauce, yeah ...
Appetizers
Creamy Tomato Soup (without the cream)
We Italians sure do love our tomatoes. Obviously, we love them in our spaghetti sauce. But we can eat it just as well in our soups. Enter the tomato soup ... in this case Creamy Tomato Soup (without the cream). How in the world is tomato soup different from tomato sauce? Well, it is. You just thin it out by adding some vegetable broth. I decided to go with a creamy tomato soup version for this ...
Italian Wedding Soup
I will admit to a bit of confusion about Italian Wedding Soup myself. It's so obvious when you hear the name, it must be served at Italian weddings right? Nope, wrong. This soup has nothing to do with weddings. Marriages maybe, but not weddings. Okay, what the heck am I talking about? Italian Wedding Soup was another of these so-called peasant soup dishes, made with ingredients that were ...
Mozzarella en Carrozza With Marinara Sauce
Mozzarella en Carrozza with Marinara Sauce is one of my favorite special snack foods. Perhaps it will make a great snack food tonight for the Golden Globes? I don’t make it too often because it’s a bit of work and it is one of those guilty pleasures to enjoy in self-imposed moderation. And admittedly, it can be easier to just cook up some ready-made mozzarella sticks. But you know they are not ...
Spicy Sausage and Bean Soup with Escarole
Ahh, the ole Spicy Sausage and Bean Soup with Escarole recipe was perfect on this chilly snowy Saturday. Last night and into this morning saw a minor snow storm (being from the North this was but a minor dusting) hitting our area. Knowing it was coming, last night I went to the grocery to get the ingredients for this rather simple Italian soup and enough food for a few days, just in case. Every ...
Authentic Pasta Fazool
I think Dean Martin knew from experience when he sang "When the stars make you drool, just like pasta fazool, that's amore." Can you beat a piping hot bowl of authentic pasta fazool, err, fagioli, on a cold and rainy winter day, or anytime for that matter? Not really! My wife and I absolutely love pasta fazool! When we lived back on Long Island in New York, authentic pasta fazool was our go-to ...