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Category: Red Sauce Italian

Pasta & Grains/Recipes/Red Sauce Italian

Easy Pepperoni Stromboli

This simple to make Stromboli is a family favorite, and loaded with pepperoni. The Stromboli started its roots in American culture back in the…

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Chicken & Fowl/Pasta & Grains/Recipes/Red Sauce Italian

Ricotta and Chicken Sausage Stuffed Shells

I miss my Josephine dearly. She and I were good friends, in the end, and I spoke to her on the phone many times…

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Pasta & Grains/Pork/Recipes/Red Sauce Italian

Calabrese-Style Rigatoni with Spicy Pork Ragu

Once upon a time in Brooklyn, there was an Italian restaurant called Sam’s. This was old-school, red sauce Brooklyn, and Sam’s was the flickering…

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Pasta & Grains/Recipes/Red Sauce Italian

Gnudi in Sage Butter with Fresh Tomatoes

Gnudi, pronounced “Nudee”, is a ricotta-based dumpling, a sort of ravioli in the buff. Hence, gnudi – it means naked! I clothed these fat…

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Fruits & Vegetables/Recipes/Red Sauce Italian

Josephine’s Italian-Style Stuffed Artichokes

My grandmother never taught me how to make her famous stuffed artichokes. I had to rely on over-the-phone oral tradition – a conversation with…

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Recipes/Red Sauce Italian/Soups & Stews

Escarole Soup

With apologies to my dear, departed Josephine, this is the best escarole soup ever made. And she has no one to blame but herself.…

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Appetizers/Recipes/Red Sauce Italian/Seafood

Clams Casino

Growing up in Maine, I was used to pretty simple seafood preparations. In Maine (and particularly in the 1980s), most of the clams, mussels,…

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Breakfast/Fruits & Vegetables/Recipes/Red Sauce Italian

Potato and Pepper Frittata

My great-grandmother lived in a tall building in a big city not so far away. She was old. Wig-wearing old. Old country old. She…

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Pasta & Grains/Recipes/Red Sauce Italian

Handmade Ricotta Cavatelli with Pepperoni Tomato Sauce

This is going to require patience. But it’s worth it. This is a pasta you make by hand. It is a little labor-intensive, so…

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Recipes/Red Sauce Italian/Seafood

Swordfish Puttanesca

Never having cared much for either olives or capers, I was surprised by how much I have been enjoying the local supermarket’s “Tuscan Gorgonzola”…

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Classics/Pasta & Grains/Recipes/Red Sauce Italian/Seafood

Linguine with Mussels and Clams

A wader-wearing fisherman steps out smiling from the refrigerated barnlike structure, where haddock and other local fishes are getting sorted and processed, cleaned, scaled and filleted,…

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Pasta & Grains/Recipes/Red Sauce Italian

Oven Risotto with Sausage and Peppers

Risotto thinks it’s so superior. So delicate, so capricious, so high maintenance. A pretty girl who won’t get dirty. At least, that’s how it…

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Recipes/Red Sauce Italian/Soups & Stews

Lasagna Soup

This post is not for the lactose intolerant among you. It’s not for people who don’t love, and I mean really, really love, cheese.…

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Pasta & Grains/Recipes/Red Sauce Italian

Rigatoni with Roasted Peppers and Sausage

Right now, in my kitchen, there is sauce bubbling on the stove. And it is rich and good. The cutting board is green with…

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Recipes/Red Sauce Italian/Signature Series

Classic Lasagna Recipe

This fantastic classic lasagna recipe is bursting with flavor, and it is our pleasure to share it! It is our goal to craft every…

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Beef/Makin' Meatballs/Recipes/Red Sauce Italian

How to Make Meatballs

Josephine, daughter of Anna, taught me to cook in her tiny kitchen on Ruth Street. My grandmother was the child of immigrants, following the…

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