Italian recipes with 600 or more calories costing more than $3 per serving

Tuscan shrimp marinara with chickpea pasta

This is a great Tuscan recipe adapted from the Flavors of Tuscan cookbook by Maxine Clark. Maxine recommends…

Pasta with Grape or Cherry Tomatoes

This is a great pasta from an island off the coast of Italy that I adapted from Giada de Laurentiis. The…

Sun-Dried Tomato Polenta with Lentil Puttenesca

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

Arancini (Italian Rice Balls)

Arancini means "little oranges" in Sicilian and they can be found all over Palermo. Cooked and flavored Arborio rice is formed around a filling of…

Canning Spaghetti Sauce

Love this spaghetti sauce! Mix a quart of spaghetti sauce with one can of tomato soup. We also add hamburger and a pint of carrots to the sauce…

Wild Mushroom Risotto

Mushroom Risotto with white wine, thyme and Parmesan cheese

Spring Vegetable Pizza

White Asparagus Risotto & Gouda Cream Sauce

A creamy risotto with white asparagus, gouda cheese and thin slices of crisp country ham.

Almond Poppyseed Cheesecake

This is one of my favorites,with its sweet almond taste, and poppy seeds, reminds me of my childhood, and my nonna's italian cooking and baking.

Braised Cinghiale (Wild Boar) Sugo with Chocolate

Pasta e Fagioli My Way

CES member cigno61 offers her personal version of the classic pasta e fagioli, pasta and beans soup that can be served very thick, almost a stew, or…

Ravioli with Pancetta and Asparagus in a Basil Cream Sauce

Tangy cream cheese, sweet basil and a wee bit of vinegar give this sauce just the right amount of flavor. Now…

Whole Wheat Roasted Vegetable and Pesto Lasagna

Roasted vegetables, three cheeses and pesto sandwiched between hearty whole wheat lasagna noodles. A true…

Eggplant Parmigiana

Eggplants that are younger (more glossy) tend to have less seeds and are less bitter. At one time I had believed “gender” played a role in the…

Marinara mix on Linguini

This is one of the quick pasta recipes that I get to make every now and then. I go this recipe online and made some 'tweaks'.