Here is a simple, delicious pasta dish from Puglia, Italy. The noodles, Bucatini, are tossed with a sauce full of Southern Italian flavors: olive oil, garlic, chile pepper, sun-dried tomatoes, almonds, black olives, orange zest, and basil. There are so many great flavor combinations at work here. It may seem like a lot of ingredients [...]

I cooked a lot of Italian dishes this week from some of the cookbooks I bought recently, and as I was already doing the string beans from Mario Batali’s Babbo Cookbook, I decided to also do the string beans from one of Biba Caggiano’s books, and compare the flavors. The two recipes are very similar; [...]

Baby artichokes were on my spring hit list this year – along with ramps, fava beans, and asparagus – and I think this ravioli is a great way to highlight them. The recipe had me trim and slice them and blanch them off, then saute them in olive oil with garlic and sun-dried tomatoes – [...]