• tricolored fusilli with shrimp and roasted peppers

    I apologize for the delay, but here is the recipe for the pasta salad. I purchase Barilla tricolored fusilli, which comes in 12 oz. boxes. For this weekend, I've made a double batch. Also, I roast my...

  • fresh tomato sauce - update

    I recently received a comment from reader that they made the tomato sauce and added the 1 tablespoon of salt that the recipe calls for. After tasting the sauce, they found it too salty. My reader went...

  • holiday weekend prep

    - - I am working today through Sunday and with daughter and husband coming for the weekend, I need to do a little of prepping. First on the list was more cookies. Of all the cookies I've baked, peanut...

  • Two more of Lidia's recipes

    [Image description] First an update to yesterday's supper of tuna. I went to Wegmans this morning and while there, I checked their price for tuna. They also charge $25.99/lb. for tuna. My sister-in-law,...

  • Grilled Tuna with Oregano

    [Image description] I was at a loss as to what to cook this evening. I brought out my cookbook "Lidia's Italy," and went to one of the yellow tabs that my husband attached to a recipe he found interesting....

  • fresh tomato sauce

    [Image description] My husband didn't get his weekly allotment of pasta last week. As I was off today, I swung by Matt's Farm and Garden Center in Wall Township, and picked up three pounds of plum tomatoes....