Filet Mignon Topped With Shrimp, Crab with a Garlicy Wine Sauce by Claudia lamascolo

This tender filet is bursting with flavor. Starting with a mouth watering filet, portabello mushrooms, shrimp, centered with a mound of crab meat, with a creamy butter,wine garlic sauce over the top~.

Ciambellone Classico (Classic Pound Cake-Italian Style) copyright 2011 art of living,PrimaMedia,Inc/Maria Liberati by maria liberati

This is the classic Italian pound cake and comes form my second book, winner of the Gourmand World Cookbook Awards 2009, The Basic Art of Italian Cooking: Holidays & Special Occasions. I love this recipe because it is quick to make and you can adapt it…

Simple Grilled Lamb Chops by John Spottiswood

Lamb is my favorite meat. While I often enjoy rubbing it or marinating it in bold flavors, grilling it simply with mild herbs that enhance it's natural flavor is one of my all time favorites. For my birthday this year, we grilled some tasty lamb chops as described below. I adapted the recipe from one by Giada De Laurentiis. It's a…

Sicilian Cake by Evelyn Scott

This Sicilian cake is traditional from the ricotta to the crushed pineapple and rum. Topped off with cherries and chocolate chips, this is unbeatable.

NUTTY flourless cookie CRISPS < Brutti ma Buoni > by Foodessa

Got a few egg whites left over from a recipe? Here's a super easy crispy, flourless cookie called < Brutti ma Buoni >. It's an Italian saying...loosely translated as ugly looking (not really) but yummy. Originally made with roasted hazelnuts...however, re-created to include roasted almonds instead. I also reduced much of the…

Chicken with Olives, capers & Tomatoes by MANJULA

This is is very quick recipe, it only require couple of ingredients and it can be serve with variety of starches like mashed potatoes, pasta, rice, couscous or quinoa... kids love this with spaghetti...

Easy Risotto & Gourmet Mushrooms by Amos Miller

Risotto scares too many cooks. It's really a simple dish, though not commonly served at the American dinner table - unless you have some (usually Northern) Italian blood in your family. When done with care, risotto can be a sublime accompaniment to all types of dishes. In fact, you can add all types of things to a risotto to…

Penne Alfredo with Italian Sausage and Zucchini by Denise Sherin

I had this dish at a local diner and loved it. So I recreated it at home it's an easy tasty dish. It looks like you spent a lot of time making it and it comes together so easily. In this picture I used just zucchini but I have made it with summer squash or a mix of both, whatever I have on hand, and it's great.

Lasagna by Sofia Reino

Very easy to make. Can be done with or without ground beef!

Polenta Squares with Gorgonzola - Crostoni al Gorgonzola by Evelyn Scott

Fried polenta is a great treat, a snacking food of the sort one can go to a friggitoria and buy a cone of -- the frier takes a sheet of yellow butcher's paper, rolls it into a cone, and fills it with squares of polenta. But polenta is also a nice accompaniment to other fried foods at table, and is a perfect base for toppings of…

Alfredo Potato Finger Fries by Evelyn Scott

Italian-Style Stuffed Mushrooms by Jennifer Bass

EGGS VEGGED OUT - Sunny Side Up by Foodessa

Cooking up a specialty for Sunday brunch on a lazy day. This morning...My ' Honey ' and I cracked some eggs on a vegetable bed of goodness!!!

Bacon and Avocado Pizza by Kate van Hilst

My super talented male whipped this one up for me last night while I was holed up in bed with a broken leg. The thin and crispy pizza base (inspired by one of the lovely ladies I have the pleasure of working with) is by far the quickest and easiest I've come across.

Lite and Fabulous Steak Pizzaiola by Skinny Kitchen with Nancy Fox

This Italian classic is simply steak topped with a quick cooking, zesty, pizza-like sauce. Sometimes it’s topped with cheese. I’m using very lean top sirloin but if you’d prefer to use flank steak or skirt steak, just reduce the cooking time a bit. Doesn’t matter how you cook your filet, the sauce absolutely makes this dish. The…