Archive for 'Food and Wine'

Welcome back to one of our favorite columns here at Tuscany Travel Tips, the Friday Recipe Roundup! We love bringing some of the best recipes we have found on the web to our readers, and hope they bring a smile to your table.

• Concord Grape uva Fragola Granita from Ms Adventures in Italy


• Red Bell pepper Soup with White Beans from Lucullian Delights


• Arancini di Riso (Sicilian Fried Rice Balls) from Italian Food on About.com

Be sure to leave a message here or at these sites if you enjoy their recipes: whether you added, subtracted, did something completely different or went by the recipe only the cooks love to hear people who enjoy their recipes!

Welcome back to Tuscany Travel Tips and our weekly Friday Recipe Roundup. This week we have tried branching out from some of our favorite blogs and into some new territory.

• Roasted Garlic Pesto Salmon from Proud Italian Cook


• Torta di Nada from The Italian Dish

The cooks behind these food blogs put their hearts into them, so be sure to tell them how if you loved their recipe! And of course be sure to come back for next weeks roundup!

Welcome back to our weekly salute to the gastronomic side of Italy. Each week we try and find some great recipes for our readers to try at home and enjoy.

• Osso Buco from Chocolate and Zucchini


• Crumiri from Cream Puffs in Venice

Any recipes that you were intrigued by or liked, please let us and their creators know! If you have found any recipes or sites you love, please send them in so we can share them with our readers.

This week on the Roundup we are having a salute to the sweet tooth! Below are three fabulous recipes for those who enjoy the craft of the confectioners.

• Italian Wedding Cookies from Food Network


• Drunken Devils Food Espresso Cupcakes from Ms Adventures in Italy


• Cannoli from Italian Food at About.com

If any of these recipes have tickled your fancy, be sure to leave us a message!  We love to hear how are readers enjoy the recipes we take pains to find.  Or if you have any of your own recipes for Italian delicacies, be they hearty and home cooked Italian-American foods or authentic recreations of dishes that the Italians have prepared for centuries, send them in!

This week we tried to do a menu instead of a few random recipes. Starting off with the delicious Mushroom Melts for an appetizer, then moving to the famous but mistranslated Italian Wedding Soup (the term comes from the name minestra maritata, defining a 'marriage' between the ingredients), stuffed eggplant for the main course, and finishing up with the delightful Zuccotto cake.

• Italian Wedding Soup from Food Network


• Stuffed Eggplant from Ms Adventures


• Venetian Amaretto Zuccotto Cake from Better Recipes

If you have any recipes of your own that you want to share, please send them in! Or if you try out any of the recipes, be sure to tell us and the sites they come from how much you enjoyed them.