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Essentials of Classic Italian Cooking

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Pasta e Fagioli reviewed by kaye16

17th October 2022

An easy and delicious soup. I used lardons for the meat. We were thinking that chicken sausages would be good, saucisse de volaille or merguez de volaille, cut in quarters lenghtwise, then into little wedges. Might be nice to add some red pepper flakes...
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Grilled Swordfish Steaks, Sicilian Salmoriglio Style reviewed by kateq

21st September 2020

What perhaps I love most about Italian food--such respect for the ingredients. Here the swordfish is grilled and then dressed with salmoriglio--lemon oil salt and herbs. But it's perfect--the simple dressing makes the swordfish sing.
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Lentil Soup reviewed by kateq

5th April 2020

A classic version indeed--and all with pantry ingredients. I double the recipe and leave out the butter at the end till I've ladled out the freezer portions. I find it benefits from a bit of spicing up.
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Ciambella (Grandmother's Pastry Ring) reviewed by kaye16

9th February 2018

Sorry to see I hadn't written anything about this here. Just thinking about making it again. I wrote a blog post about it when I made it last.
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