Your favorite picnic staple took a trip to Italy and was forever changed. Spicy sopressata, fiery chilies, sun dried tomatoes, blistered cherry tomatoes, and peppery olive oil, tossed with penne rigate add a little Calabrese to your life.
Ingredient: garlic
Serrano Chicken with Cilantro-Lime Sauce
On days where time is in short supply or you need a last minute meal, this is your saving grace. Grilled chicken gets marinated in lime and serrano chilies AFTER cooking—yeah, you read it right—and served with a cooling cilantro-lime sauce for truly fast summer fare.
Fresh Tomato Sauce
Using canned tomatoes for a sauce is the perfect way to make a quick and flavorful tomato sauce, but when tomatoes are in season and the garden is bursting with them, this Fresh Tomato Sauce is a fabulous way to taste these beauties in a totally different way.
Vegetable Stock
Nothing quite replaces a good, homemade vegetable stock. Sure, store-bought can be very good, but homemade is levels above even that. It’s incredibly simple and takes very little time to make, too, and can be adjusted to suit your tastes.
The Best Damn Spaghetti & Meatballs… Period!
The ultimate meatballs, made from both beef and pork and flavored with onion, garlic, chilies, oregano, and fennel seed, are simmered in the perfect San Marzano tomato sauce before being tossed with spaghetti for the ultimate in Italian comfort food—Piatto ricco, mi ci ficco!