Lee Laurino
Lee Laurino, contributing writer, www.hometoitaly.com
Homemade Cheese Stracciatella
June 2016
Ingredients:
300 g Fresh mozzarella cheese
½ Glass of cream
Salt
Separate the mozzarella cheese into strings. Add the cream. Add a pinch of salt. Chill in the refrigerator for about one hour before eating.
Potatoes with Sesame and Rosemary
June 2016
Ingredients: 1 kg. Small potatoes 60 g. Sesame seeds 50 g. Butter Rosemary (a bunch) Salt
Wash the potatoes and cook for 25 minutes with their peel. Toast sesame seeds in a pan. In the same pan, melt the butter, add potatoes, add salt, season...
Cartapesta
February 2015
Do you remember art projects as a child that involved strips of newspaper and paste made from flour and water? The practice of the cartapesta (paper mache) has been an art form in Lecce, Italy for centuries.
Used as an inexpensive substitute...
Italy is closed?
August 2014
Ferragosto on August 15 is Assumption Day, a national holiday; a day when offices, factories, and many stores and restaurants are closed. It is also the beginning of the exodus from the cities and towns for families not working in the tourist...
Italian-American Food is Not Italian Food!
July 2013
Two of my Italian acquaintances recently tried to convince me that Italian-American food is not really Italian. Raised in an Italian-American family, this argument caused me to consider carefully the food we prepared and ate at home and the dishes...
Discovering Puglia
May 2013
The big three, Roma, Firenze and Venezia, are the most visited cities in Italy but exciting alternatives await you in lesser known Southern Italy. Having never traveled south of Naples it was a new adventure to explore the south eastern area of...