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Regional: Italian

Caprese Salad with Olives

I should have titled this post, ’shamelessly simple’. It’s quick to prepare and contains a powerful blend of flavors from the sweet tomatoes, creamy fresh mozzarella, salty pitted olives, torn basil leaves, salt, cracked pepper, and golden extra virgin olive…

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Casatiello: a Savory Bread

This marks my second indulgent week of deliciously sinful carbs. I enjoy bread baking, especially the lengthy proofing process, and find it therapeutic. However, the amount of bread I’m turning out (and consuming) is the downside to my so-called therapy.…

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Baked Peaches with Amaretti Stuffing

Desserts do not get any easier (or more delicious) than this simple recipe featuring fresh peaches. The tender fruit is stuffed with an amaretti cookie mixture then baked until the peaches are soft and the topping nicely browned. I used…

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Ciabatta catastrophe – how do you measure up?

Don’t let the photo fool you, the bread turned out rather disgusting, both in taste and texture. I guess I’m on a ciabatta roller coaster having great success recently, now followed by a ciabatta disaster.

I enjoyed the ciabatta bread made in…

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