This spicy, homemade arrabbiata sauce is super easy to make: all you need is 6 ingredients and 20 minutes to cook! My secret is adding a handful fresh cherry tomatoes (in addition canned tomatoes), to lighten & brighten the sauce. Arrabbiata sauce (sugo all’Arrabbiata) is a spicy, Italian pasta sauce made with 5 simple ingredients: crushed canned tomatoes, garlic, olive…
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Best Sourdough Gingerbread Cake
A simple, step-by-step recipe for THE BEST moist and fluffy sourdough gingerbread cake made with sourdough discard. It’s so soft it will melt in your mouth! My secret ingredients include toasty brown butter, vanilla extract and luscious sour cream. I will go on record stating that Nigella Lawson’s gingerbread recipe, and I’m referring to her gingerbread “cake” not the cookie…
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How To Make Italian Pignoli Cookies
These 6 ingredient pignoli cookies (classic Italian pine nut cookies) are soft, chewy and delicious. Made with almond paste, sugar and egg whites, my recipe is less sweet than most; it comes together in 30 minutes or less. To me, there’s nothing more nostalgic than creating Italian bakery classics at home. Think: golden Italian sesame cookies, anise biscotti, soft Italian…
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Italian Anise Biscotti
These sweet and crunchy anise biscotti will transport you to Italy in just one bite! I love that you can make these cookies in advance to enjoy anytime, anywhere (they freeze beautifully). When you think of biscotti, the crunchy, twice-baked Italian cookies destined for dunking, what flavor comes to mind first? Vanilla biscotti? Almond? Chocolate? If anise biscotti are not…
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Fresh Homemade Butternut Squash Ravioli
A simple, delicious recipe for homemade butternut squash ravioli from scratch! The roasted butternut squash filling and assembled ravioli can be made in advance. It’s way better than store-bought! Are you making fresh homemade ravioli yet? In this post, I’ll walk you through a recipe variation with sweet butternut squash using my easy whole-roasted method (which you’ll love because you…
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