Quick and easy European main dish recipes

Tarragon Grilled Chicken Fillets over Salad

This recipe is adapted from one in Steven Raichlen's BBQ USA, which he in turn borrowed from a restaurant in…

Whole Fried Young Chicken with Salsa Verde

Make sure you get very high quality game hens from your butcher for this dish. Serve with my Fried Brussels…

crab ravioli with grilled lobster in saffron cream sauce

For a luscious meal that can be made in 1/2 hour, this recipe has always been a sure thing.

Salsicce con broccoletti

Is there any meat more satisfying than sausages? If there is, I haven't found it. And, in this typically Roman dish, sausages marry particularly…

Bucatini all'amatriciana

It could be said that bucatini all'amatricana and spaghetti alla carbonara are the 'Romulus and Remus' of Roman cooking. No two dishes typify the…

Tagliatelle with Radicchio and Speck

A tasty pasta dish that is so quick and simple to prepare! Speck is a very lightly smoked ham made in North…

Straccetti di manzo con la rughetta

One of the iconic dishes of Roman cookery, stracetti con la rughetta, or 'little beef rags' with arugula, is…

Polentas' New BFF, Herb and Mustard Crusted Pork Loin

I love dishes that I don't have to worry about. Obedient little entrees that one can tuck into the oven and…

Spicy Tomato and Tuna Pasta

Puttanesca inspired quick lunch dish. Perfect for a light lunch or dinner and something you can pull out of your pantry in a flash.

MUSSEL fennel Sambuca ROQUEFORT

FRANCE and ITALY do the hustle with fresh cultured MUSSELS. A rustic culinary sophistication was achieved by a few unexpected twists. The flavours…

Sun-Dried Tomato Polenta with Lentil Puttenesca

This is one of those meals you-never-knew-you-couldn't-live-without!

Lemon Spaghetti with Shrimp

White Sauce Veal Stew

Easter Italian Roundup 2010 and 2011

A traditional family meal, assorted appetizers, soup, main course, sides and loads of desserts... Italian…

Chicken with Olives, capers & Tomatoes

This is is very quick recipe, it only require couple of ingredients and it can be serve with variety of…