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No-Knead Rustic Crusty Bread (NYT Slow Recipe)

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The Basic No-Knead Bread Recipe Adapted From Sullivan Street Bakery You don’t need a brick oven to make an incredible rustic bread. Nobody will believe that it’s home made. If it’s your first time I’d recommend to use a mix of  bread flour and whole wheat flour. Bread flour (similarly to […]

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Maltagliati – Traditional Pasta Fresca from Emilia and Tuscany

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The maltagliati are irregular pieces of egg pasta usually produced from the scraps of the pasta with which the tagliatelle or the lasagne are made. They have different shapes, from triangles, to strips, to round or rhombus shapes and also vary in thickness and size. This particular uneven pasta is characteristic of the Emilia Romagna region and of […]

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Italian Breadsticks – Grissini!

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These grissini are a wonderful snack, antipasto (if served with ham or cheese), a delicious bread substitute and a smart idea for your kids’ and picnic lunchbox, A bit of history: Grissini, or Traditional Italian Bread Sticks, originated in Torino (Turin) in Piemonte, a region of northwest Italy. Grissini were actually invented […]

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Yummy Whole Wheat Panini!

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The whole wheat bread that you usually get from a store or from a deli doesn’t taste good.  Crumbly and tasteless, you think that’s the price of eating a bit more healthily.  I think most people in America think under these assumptions: that you must either eat healthily, or eat food […]

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How to Make Tomato Sauce for Canning

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I was really surprised  and pleased when I recently found out that some of my friends and neighbors still make tomato sauce!  I thought it was a lost culinary tradition!!  Well, a warm welcome to the “Salsa Fan” Club : ) There isn’t only one way to make a nice […]