Author's note: My secret is to add a little bit of oil to the dough; it helps make the texture every so slightly chewy. - makes 50 to 60 cookies, depending on the size and shape - Ingredients 2...
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This unusual sweet apple omelet recipe I've adapted from Babbo pastry chef and Serious Eats pal and contributor Gina DePalma's fantastic book Dolce Italiano. I use Honeycrisp apples, everyone's current fave these days, instead of Gina's recommended Golden Delicious, Rome,...
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When Ed asked me to contribute some holiday cookie recipes for serious eaters, I instantly thought of something I haven’t so much as glanced at for at least a dozen years—
my mother’s time worn recipe box that sits on her kitchen shelf. The irony is that the ignored recipe box exists entirely because of me; I made it for Mom as a Christmas gift when I was about 10 years old.
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Eggs are essential ingredients in
Italian Easter celebrations, playing a role that extends beyond the huge, elaborately decorated chocolate eggs that decorate every shop window in the weeks before the holiday. Romans are likely to enjoy a light first course of
Brodetto Pasquale at their Easter table, the local version of a soup that features eggs as well as lamb, another iconic Easter food.
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Spring vegetables arrive shockingly early in Rome to the eyes of this American. As the availability of puntarelle has waned, artichokes have burst onto the scene as the first harbingers of
primavera.
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I went on a little shopping spree at the Mercato Rionale in Prati last week. The covered market is a beautiful example of the graceful, Liberty-style architecture found in this Roman neighborhood, not far from the Vatican. Inside, the...
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For this week's Sunday brunch recipe I want to allay any fears about my pumpkin pie position. Just because I don't love pumpkin pie doesn't mean that I don't appreciate other pumpkin dishes. These pumpkin fritters from Gina DePalma (it's...
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And so we've come to the end of the line with this week's featured Cook the Book, Gina DePalma's Dolce Italiano: Desserts From the Babbo Kitchen. DePalma decided to call this Venetian Apple Cake because "it contains spices, which came...
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Gina DePalma, author of Dolce Italiano: Desserts From the Babbo Kitchen, recommended that we feature her Chocolate and Date Pudding Cake recipe, saying it has a "soft, gooey, spoon food, and the flavor of the dates really shines through the...
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Today's Cook the Book recipe is for zaletti, a polenta cookie studded with grappa-soaked currants. When I talked with Gina DePalma, the author of Dolce Italiano: Desserts From the Babbo Kitchen, she listed it as one of her favorites. It's...
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