Sicilian-style jumbo shrimp in a sweet-and-sour Marsala sauce with pine nuts, currants, capers, and fennel. A rustic Italian seafood main baked in an earthenware casserole.
Crimini-shingled mahi mahi: fish fillets crowned with thin-sliced mushrooms seared golden, served on garlic mashed potatoes with slow-roasted tomato petals. A restaurant-style seafood plate.
Turkey picadillo, the lighter take on the Cuban classic, simmers ground turkey with tomatoes, raisins, green olives, and capers for a sweet-salty-savory skillet dinner. Ready in about 30 minutes over rice.
Mike's Baked Stuffed Eggplant fills eggplant shells with a Parmesan, breadcrumb, and egg stuffing, then bakes over a rustic potato-tomato sauce for 90 minutes. A hearty Italian-style vegetarian main.
Slow cooker braciole with thin-pounded round steak rolled around Italian sausage filling and braised in tomato sauce for 8 to 10 hours until fork-tender.
Spaghetti with Greek lamb meatballs in a tomato feta sauce. Mint, cinnamon, and scallion-seasoned lamb meatballs simmered in white wine tomato sauce with crumbled feta stirred in.
Veal ragout with red pepper braises cubed veal in white wine, plum tomatoes, and herbs, then finishes with sweet bell pepper and a bright lemon-garlic gremolata over fresh fettuccine.
Sauteed Shrimp with Corn in Spicy Wine Sauce recipe
Chilled tomato salsa over hot angel hair pasta with red and yellow peppers, basil, garlic, and a hit of romano. Italian summer technique that needs zero cooking for the sauce. Ready in 20 minutes.
Chicken cacciatore baked in a crushed Roma tomato sauce with white wine, fennel seed, cinnamon, coriander, and red pepper flakes. A lighter, oven-baked Italian hunter's chicken.
A quick weeknight pasta with turkey sausage, briny black olives, garlic and tomatoes, with a kick of red pepper. Tossed with a splash of pasta water so the sauce clings to every strand.
Manhattan-style clam chowder with bacon, minced clams, diced potatoes, plum tomatoes, celery, and green pepper in a briny tomato broth. The red chowder that started a rivalry with New England's cream version.
Greek-style shrimp baked with crumbled feta cheese over a slow-cooked tomato and white wine sauce. Served over angel hair pasta for a Mediterranean weeknight dinner.
Basic Italian tomato sauce with peeled plum tomatoes, garlic, basil, a splash of red wine, and a knob of butter for a silky, restaurant-style red sauce in 40 minutes.
Panini is a classic food in Italia, it is very flexible, you can add any your favorite cheese, vegetables and herbs to create your own version of panini.
One-skillet chicken and rice with Italian sausage, red peppers, tomatoes, cumin, and olives. A Spanish-inspired arroz con pollo vibe ready in under an hour.