Breaking Bread

  All sorrows are less with bread. – Miguel de Cervantes     There is something so gratifyingly innate about making bread. I love the entire process!  Grinding flour, kneading the dough with my hands, the rise or two my loaves get and then the best part: the baking!  My kitchen is nice and toasty…

Food from Friends… The Marriage of Poland and Italy

I am so excited and honored to be sharing this post today!  I know what you’re thinking… “Poland and Italy?  Is she crazy?”   Mr and Mrs D ~ second family to my husband after he immigrated with his family and moved to Ohio, are amazing.  Mr D is the typical hard-working, generous and kind-hearted…

Paradiso

Sicily is at the very heart of my family… we feel the beat of daily life, breathe the culture of the people, soak in the very essence of the place ~ Sicily is to Italy as the genteel southern US states are to the faster-paced northern states.  There is a sensual slow-down that occurs almost…

Pizza for … three?

Ok ~ as most of you who have ever been to a Lombardo Pizza Party know, there are a lot of choices to be made:  pizzeria lombardo traditional wood-fired pizza pizza margherita tomato sauce, mozzarella & basil pizza del pastore olive oil, mozzarella, zucchini & goat cheese dama bianca olive oil , mozzarella &…