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Low GI Recipe: Grandma’s Stuffed Artichokes
Artichokes, especially from Sicily, start appearing in green grocer markets all over Italy by early spring. Their hearty green leaves and full bodied shapes invite shoppers to bring them home for the...
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Low GI Recipe: Zucchine in Agrodolce
Nothing beats early homegrown summer squash fresh grown. Zucchine are tender and lusciously filled with the flavors of the fertile earth they grow out of. This is an old traditional Sicilian recipe...
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Low GI Recipe: Marinated Eggplant Slices
According to some sources, Italians have been cooking with eggplants since the 14th Century. I know that it has been on our family’s table and those of every one of my relatives’ tables for my entire...
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Low GI Recipe: Broccoli Rabe Tricolore
“Tricolore” is how the Italians refer to their national flag. It has “three colors:” green white and red. And those are the colors you will see looking at you from this dish. Broccoli rabe is more...
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Low GI Recipe: Sweet Springtime Escarole
Most Italians enjoy the bitter taste inherent in escarole. And because it has its own confident and distinctive flavor, it pairs nicely with other flavors. The classic winter soup, Escarole and...
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Low GI Recipe: Beet Greens Frittelle
Italians love to use every part of every vegetable plant they can. This recipe incorporates the slightly bitter-tasting leaves of the rootbeet in a simple, quick and wholesome vegetable side dish or...
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Low GI Recipe: Tiziana’s Roasted Peppers
Tiziana is my amazing sister-in-law. I won’t divulge her age but suffice it to say that, if she lived here in the States, her Medicare card would long be rumpled and weather beaten. Her body is...
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Low GI Recipe: Winter Vegetable Mix
Leave it to the Italians to take the humdrum vegetables that everybody has been eating all winter long and ZAP! them with shout-in-your-mouth flavor. What a combination of well groomed flavors! Feel...
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Roasted Summer Grape Tomatoes
If vegetables were ever in a parade, tomatoes would be the marching band, color guard and the festival queen! This recipe elevates the humble grape tomato to its rightful position of peerless...
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Vinegar – A Culinary Acid to Love
Vinegar is 95% water, contains no protein, fat, vitamins, or hardly any other nutrient (it only “weighs in” at 2 calories/tablespoon). Yet the ancient Babylonians, Greeks and Romans praised it for its...
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