Tortellini Soup
Ingredients: Instructions:
Chicken Marsala
From the brief research I did, this is considered an Italian-american dish because it was brought to America, became popular there yet is not popular in Italy (Sicily). One blog I found suggested it may have been invented by a Sicilian chef who was cooking for a French family living in Sicily. I actually stuck pretty closely to this one, apart from using red vermouth instead of marsala, dried thyme and no parsley (if I had fresh I would have…
Three Cheese Lasagna Roll-ups
Pasta Puttanesca
This “modern” version of Puttanesca was popularized in Naples in the early 1960s but the dish has roots dating back much further. Attempts to translate the word a little too literally (“whore’s sauce”) have led to the theory it was invented by the “working class” in the bordellos common in Naples at the time. According to Wikipedia, Italians use “puttana” similar to the way we use “shit” – as in “throw some shit together from the fridge / pantry” and…
Chicken Tetrazzini
My mom got this recipe from a coworker, liked it and then made it her own over time. The copy we have was hand written by mom to Esther, who wanted to try her hand at making it years ago. There’s a sticky note attached with further context to the effect of this is the recipe but I don’t precisely measure things so it’s close. Birthday dinners at our house growing up were whatever the birthday boy (or girl) wanted…