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marriage Barb and I celebrated 45 years of marriage May 15th. Since it was a special occasion, she took a week's staycation to rest and...

One post I wrote that gets reads every week is my post on Canascione. Go to my post of April 8, 2012 for full details and the recipe. It rea...

Easter is 2 weeks away. Since we will be having a gang, the menu will be modified slightly. I like lamb and lasagna at Easter. But there are...

Zeppole are very popular for people from my region in Italy. They are often attributed to other areas like Naples and Sicily too. It was a p...

Gnocchi is a favourite pasta dish from Ciociaria. It is like an English dumpling or a Polish porogi or not. It is really an Italian dish. I ...

This dish is a good one to use up leftover sauce and pasta. When I was little and we would visit a farm it would often be made as it used up...

Adolph's Ragu or Meat Sauce Most Italian regional cooking has their own version of the Ragu- Meat Sauce. Ciociaria cooking is no differe...

I learned and began to enjoy  cooking when helping my Mother to prepare meals when I returned home from school and especially from universit...

The Italian dishes I make come from the Lazio region, province of Frosinone. The area is known as Ciociaria. The slang for the people wh...

My wife Barbara convinced me to blog about my cooking. I am not a chef. I just love to cook because I love to eat good food. There are sever...