by Simple Italian Cooking Blog | Jul 15, 2020 | Recipes
Here’s a super easy and simple Italian pasta salad you will love! It’s so easy I have a video to show it’s simplicity below. I recently went through a phase where I was all into pasta salads and experimenting with different ingredients and...
by Simple Italian Cooking Blog | Jul 5, 2020 | Recipes
Ciao Friends, In this recipe post I’m sharing a super easy vegetarian stuffed zucchini recipe that is full of delicious flavors and doesn’t end up a pile of baked mush! While there are multiple ways and variations to make stuffed zucchini, my...
by Simple Italian Cooking Blog | Jun 25, 2020 | Recipes, salads
Italian caprese salad party skewers have to be the best invention ever! First off, caprese salad is an Italian classic recipe and are often served to family and friends at gatherings during the warm summer months. In this version of the recipe, we’ve made a few...
by Simple Italian Cooking Blog | Jun 4, 2020 | basil, Gardening
Every year somewhere between late spring and early summer, one of the most popular Italian herbs makes it coming debut…. Basil. In this article, I explain how to grow fresh basil at home. Anyone can do it, whether you have space outside or inside! First, if you...
by Simple Italian Cooking Blog | May 28, 2020 | Desserts
Jump to Recipe Ciao Friends, Here’s an Italian dessert recipe that is amazing! This Chocolate Almond Orange Cake uses almond extract and orange extract and the flavor is delicious! You can adjust the extracts for more or less depending on...
by Simple Italian Cooking Blog | May 19, 2020 | pizza dough
Jump to Recipe Ciao Friends, Well, it’s finally happened. We have a pizza dough recipe that is simple, easy, quick, and can be used for various types of pizza such as thin, thick or somewhere in between. My goal is to help YOU make a wonderful easy pizza dough...
by Simple Italian Cooking Blog | May 10, 2020 | Recipes
Jump to Recipe Here’s a deliciously simple chicken recipe that uses figs, olives and a handful of other ingredients that make this one of my new favorite ways to bake chicken. To make this recipe, you’ll need: whole chicken (cut in parts) olive oil...
by Simple Italian Cooking Blog | Apr 18, 2020 | Holidays, Side Dishes
Jump to Recipe Ciao Friends, It’s currently early spring and that means asparagus is now growing in backyard gardens, and probably yours too if you grow it. It also means that asparagus is “in season” from the grocery store. This recipe for wrapped asparagus...
by Simple Italian Cooking Blog | Feb 19, 2020 | Recipes, soup
It’s no surprise that chickpeas are commonly used in Italian cooking and recipes since they are found throughout the Mediterranean region. This is a pureed chickpea soup recipe that uses canned chickpeas along with cannellini beans. It’s an awesome...
by Simple Italian Cooking Blog | Feb 14, 2020 | desserts, Recipes
Jump to Recipe If you are not familiar with what an Italian lemon ricotta pie is or have never made one yourself, don’t worry, either had I until a few years into my marriage. This is in my opinion one of the easiest Italian dessert recipes I know...