Author: Selena Robins
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Every delicious Sunday Sauce has a secret ingredient.
Canadian Italian Heritage Month To celebrate Canadian Italian Heritage Month, I’m sharing Ryan Abigail Maria Benetti O’Flanagan’s secret Sunday Sauce recipe. Yes, I know, her name is quite a mouthful, but there is a good reason for that, and it’s explained in her book, Decoy In Stilettos. The hero, Gabe Marchetti, commits the ultimate good…
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Pasta e Patate: Italian Comfort in a Bowl
This blog post is dedicated to my son, who keeps insisting I write down Nonna’s traditional recipes. Apparently, he believes our family recipes deserve their own historical preservation society. Some recipes aren’t meant to impress dinner guests; they’re meant to remind you where you came from. Every Friday night, my mom made a dish we…
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Biscotti Math
I went to Farmers Pick for my usual monthly haul of imported Italian staples because, as a full-blooded Italian, I’m deeply passionate about olive oil quality and pasta brands. I stood in the bakery aisle holding a package of Almond Biscotti, turned it over a few times, as we do when we are contemplating such…
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Plot Twist Patties: From Stuffed Vegetables to Crispy Patties
Some recipes are carefully planned. Others are born out of kitchen chaos. That was exactly the case with these zucchini-eggplant patties. I started out fully committed to making stuffed eggplants and stuffed zucchini. I had the vegetables, the filling idea, the whole vision. Then came the first plot twist. The shells for both the eggplants…
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Roasted Carrot & Ginger Soup: A Hug in a Bowl
The humble carrot goes into the oven looking perfectly ordinary and comes out sweet, caramelized, and smelling like you’ve suddenly become the sort of person who can casually whip up a five-star soup on a weeknight. My goal has always been to have at least three or four vegetarian meals each week. Unlike Ryan (the…