Italian

Pasta Fagioli soup (pasta e fagioli) translates as pasta with beans in Italian. This classic Italian soup makes a perfect first course or starter. And you can make a full meal with this hearty soup, just add a nice crusty Italian bread.

Nothing better than a homemade fresh pizza. Making your own thin-crust pizza dough is not as difficult as you might think.

I love this fresh and simple to prepare marinated peppers appetizer. Marinated peppers is always a favorite at my table.

Ciambotta is an Italian vegetable stew, in some regions maybe more like a thick Italian vegetable soup. Brimming with all kinds of vegetables, you can think of Ciambotta as an Italian version of the French vegetable dish, Ratatouille.

Chicken Breasts cooked with lemon and fresh sage is a delicious way to sauté chicken and easy to prepare.

Pasta with Olive Tapenade might look a little distrubing because the olive paste turns the pasta a blackish color. Might even remind you of black squid ink (also a great pasta idea). No less tasty and delicious, olive tapenade is a great idea for pasta.

Refer to this recipe to prepare the black olive tapenade.

There is nothing better than Cannellini Beans or Northern White Beans prepared in the Tuscan style from the northern region of Italy.

Pollo Contadino, a wonderful Italian peasant style chicken dish, as the Italian farmer's wife might prepare. Not a difficult chicken recipe to make, very delicious.