I was getting seriously tired of the same old sides. Macaroni salad? Again?Green salad? Again?Another steamed or roasted vegetable? Please. Then came zucchini. Or, as we Italians might call it, cucuzza—or gagootz in my family’s Italian dialect. I originally had plans to turn these zucchini into zucchini noodles, but then I had another idea: stuffed…
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Crispy Calabrian Chili Chicken Cutlets with Fresh Garden Tomato Salad | Easy Italian-Inspired Summer Dinner
Crispy Calabrian Chili Chicken Cutlets with Garden Fresh Tomato Salad – The Summer Dinner You’ll Crave Again and Again There are certain meals that disappear before they ever make it to the dinner table, and these spicy chicken cutlets are one of them. I don’t know about your house, but whenever I make chicken cutlets,…
The BEST Hot & Spicy White Pasta e Fagioli You’ll Ever Make (No Tomatoes Needed!)
This White Pasta Fazool Changed Everything I never thought I’d say it, but I may have just created the best pasta e fagioli of my life. As an Italian-American Jersey girl, I’ve made countless pots of pasta fazool over the years. Traditionally, mine always included tomatoes, and I swore by that rich red broth. But…
