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Pasta with Peaches, Prosciutto and Arugula: Cooking in Italy

July 3, 2015 By Laura 9 Comments

Pasta with Peaches, Prosciutto and Arugula: a delicious and healthy meal I whipped up one evening while we were living in Italy!

Pasta with Peaches, Prosciutto and Arugula is a fresh, healthy and delicious celebration of the flavors of Italy. Affiliate links were used in this post to link to items I am discussing. I was torn about whether to post this–the dish was delicious, but the pictures not so much. I obviously did not have any… 

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Filed Under: Arugula, Italian, Italy 2015, pasta, peaches, tomatoes, travel Tagged With: arugula, Italian, Italy, lemons, pasta, peaches, tomatoes, travel, trofie, white wine, wine

Upside Down Rhubarb Cake; Beaches of Southern Italy pt 1

June 23, 2015 By Laura 10 Comments

Rhubarb Upside Down Cake served with Strawberries--an AMAZING spring dessert!

Upside Down Rhubarb Cake with Rhubarb-Sugar Marinated Strawberries celebrates spring in color, aroma and, most important, taste! Affiliate links have been used to link to items I am discussing.  Another seasonal dish I am getting to late. Ack! Sorry about that, but come on, if you were in Italy would you be posting about food or

Filed Under: cakes, fruit, Italy 2015, oranges, rhubarb, strawberries, travel Tagged With: beach, cake, Italy, rhubarb, strawberries, Tropea, upside down cakes

Citrus Olive Oil Cake with Strawberries

June 17, 2015 By Laura 10 Comments

Lemon Olive Oil Cake Topped with Strawberries

I have been having trouble with this next post–as you may have noticed from my extended silence. It is kind of a bridge post, or an odds-n-ends post. It does not fit any good theme, but whatever I am just going to go for it!

Filed Under: cakes, Italy 2015, lemon baked goods, strawberries, travel, yogurt Tagged With: cake, citrus, Cosenza, Greek yogurt, Italy, lemon, olive oil, orange, Rende, strawberries, yogurt

Mafalde Pasta with Morel Mushrooms and Asparagus

June 10, 2015 By Laura 12 Comments

Mafalde Pasta with Morel Mushrooms and Asparagus--super easy and delicious!

Mafalde Pasta with Morel Mushrooms and Asparagus encompasses everything magical about spring: bright, tender shoots of green asparagus, and mushrooms that can only be found with a walk in the woods, suddenly pleasant after several months of cold. I am tardy with sharing this recipe, however, since my own spring turned magical with a trip… 

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Filed Under: asparagus, Italy 2015, mushrooms, pasta, travel, vegetarian Tagged With: asparagus, driving in Italy, Italy, leftovers, lemon, mafalde, mafalde pasta, morel mushrooms, mushrooms, pasta, travel

Paestum: An Open Letter Home

June 8, 2015 By Laura 4 Comments

Sammy in front of Hera temple in Paestum

Much like Positano was overwhelming in its sheer beauty and impossibility, Paestum was also overwhelming, but for different reasons. I came to Italy prepared and excited to be immersed in ancient Rome and instead discovered that the far south of Italy is even more a treasure trove of Magna Graecia, i.e., ancient Greece.

Filed Under: Italy 2015, travel Tagged With: ancient Greece, ancient Rome, forum, Italy, Paestum, Poseidonia, ruins, temples

Positano: An Open Letter Home

June 7, 2015 By Laura 1 Comment

Amalfi Coast by water

I think I have been avoiding this post because I am overwhelmed by it. Not that being in Positano was overwhelming–far from it. But expressing just how lovely and unique it was seems beyond my exhausted brain.

Filed Under: Italy 2015, travel Tagged With: Amalfi, Italy, Positano, travel

Porchetta Marinade for Pork Tenderloin: Review of Marinades; Rome to Calabria!

June 1, 2015 By Laura 9 Comments

Porchetta Marinated Pork Tenderloin: easy and so delicious!

This porchetta marinade for pork tenderloin is a fabulously easy marinade to have in your back pocket. A copy of Marinades: The Quick-Fix Way to Turn Everyday Food Into Exceptional Fare, with 400 Recipes was provided to me by the publisher for the purposes of an honest review. Affiliate links have been used to link to… 

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Filed Under: cookbooks, Italian, Italy 2015, pork, reviews, travel Tagged With: fennel, garlic, Italy, lemon, marinades, porchetta, pork, pork tenderloin, simple lunches

Wandering Rome II: An Open Letter Home

May 26, 2015 By Laura 4 Comments

kids in front of Nile river god in fountain of the four rivers, Piazza Navona, Rome

I don’t expect to have 1 post per day or half day for most of this trip, but Rome was like that. Just packing as much in as we could. We are coming back to Rome at the end of the trip, and then we will be more organized,

Filed Under: Italy 2015, travel

Wandering Rome: An Open Letter Home

May 24, 2015 By Laura 6 Comments

Piazza del popolo May 2015

So I have decided the only way to stay sane and also keep a decent record of what we are doing (both for my sake later and my friends’ and family’s sake now) is to have some posts without food. So this is one of those. After the food tour, we took our hotel’s bus to… 

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Filed Under: Italy 2015, travel Tagged With: Italy, Piazza del Popolo, Rome, travel, travel with kids, Twin Churches

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Hi! I’m Laura and I am a recovering history major who has re-channeled all of my passion for learning about the history of different countries to learning about their food culture. That doesn’t mean every dish on here is strictly authentic, but it does mean that even my adaptations are not undertaken lightly. My goal is to show you–by doing–that these dishes are possible in your kitchen. Including desserts because I have quite the sweet tooth! Read More…

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