Quick and easy Italian recipes costing less than $2.5 per serving

Four Cheese Italian Macaroni

Zucchini con Anice

Italian Short Pastry Dough

This a great short dough for bases of hors d'ouvres or simpley as a stand alone galleta or cracker.

Italian Shrimp Salad

Chestnut Bread

A wholesome, flavorful sweet bread that can be served anytime!

Roasted Broccoli

This roasted broccoli recipe, adapted from the Barefoot Contessa, is really wonderful. It has a lot of flavor. We served it with a mild pasta, and…

Portabella Mushrooms with Vino Cotto (Vincotto)

These hearty portabella mushrooms are a taste sensation with their savory Italian bread crumb topping and…

Italian Red Wine Cookies

These are so quick and easy you can bake them anytime, and people will think you spent all day just baking for them !!

Crunchy Green Bean Salad

Lemon Spaghetti with Shrimp

Stuffed Artichokes

I will never forget the first time I ate Stuffed Artichokes.......It was love at first site......25 years later I still make it the same way my mom…

Gorgonzola-Sauced Pasta

Basil-Walnut Pesto

To help mix the pesto with the cooked pasta, blend 4 to 6 tablespoons of the pasta cooking water into 1/2 cup pesto before tossing.

Seafood risotto with mushrooms

This mussel, prawn and porcini risotto is creamy, silky and aromatic.

Zuppa Toscana

Healthy and Delicious version of *eghemm, Olive Garden's Zuppa Toscana.