I love simple recipes. And this one cannot be any simpler. This is my favorite recipe for homemade foccacia. My parents altered a recipe that they found in an Italian cookbook and it has become a weekly staple in our house. Whether as the side for a bowl of soup, the base for homemade pizza, or…
Turkey Meatballs
Of all the meals my mom makes, these turkey meatballs are probably the #1 most-requested dinner in our house. They are delicious, super easy to pull together, and freeze like a dream. They are SO freezer-friendly that my mom will make a huge batch and freeze half of it to bring to E’s place so…
Hunger Action Month: Bean and Pasta Soup
Happy Wednesday, everyone! I hope you are having a great week. We are now halfway through Hunger Action Month (!), which means that I want to share my absolute favorite recipe that I developed for my local food pantry – Bean and Pasta Soup. This soup was my lunchtime staple during my study abroad in…
Caprese Pizza
One of my fondest food memories as a child is homemade-pizza-for-dinner night. My dad would whip up homemade pizza dough, slather it with sauce and cheese, and bake it until the house smelled like a pizzeria. In my opinion, homemade pizza is a million times better than pizza from a pizzeria… you can control what…
Turkey Bolognese
It’s E’s big birthday weekend, so I decided to take the train up and help celebrate with her work friends – they are a fun bunch and it was so nice to meet all of them in person! Yesterday, while E was at work, I decided to do a little studying for my RD exam…
Italian Vegetable Quesadillas
Hi there! How are you? Did you have a good long holiday weekend? Oh good! I had an amazing weekend too! With my parents visiting with friends at the beach, I had a big Tex-Mex BBQ at my house with my close friends. It was a great time filled with good food and even better…
Chicken Faux-sala
Hi there! How are you? Life has gotten insanely busy as I have passed the “Three Weeks Until Graduation” mark this weekend. And when life gets busy, all I want to eat is comfort food. Nothing says comfort food like Chicken Marsala. Or Chicken Faux-sala… It’s faux-sala because this chicken dish actually doesn’t have any…