Recipes

Olive Oil Cake

RECIPE OLIVE OIL CAKE A caterer shared this olive oil cake recipe with me over 15 years ago; it’s both easy to make and incredibly versatile. You can substitute regular olive oil with either Meyer Lemon or Valencia Orange olive oil, enhancing the flavors with the lemon zest specified, or […]

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Simple Pasta Carbonara

RECIPE Simple Pasta Carbonara With crispy bits of pork, a peppery bite, and a velvety cheese sauce enriched with eggs, carbonara is just as easy to make for dinner as it is at 2 a.m. after a long night out. It’s one of Rome’s signature dishes, and just like other […]

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Valencia Orange Olive Oil Cake

RECIPE Valencia Orange Olive Oil Cake Orange olive oil makes for a surprisingly delicious twist on traditional Olive Oil cake!

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Greek Style Beef and Rice Meatballs with Lemon Olive Oil Sauce

RECIPE Greek Style Beef and Rice Meatballs with Lemon Olive Oil Sauce In the Greek dish called youvarlakia avgolemono, beef and rice meatballs dot a lemony soup that’s rich and velvety with egg yolks. To simplify, we pair the meatballs with a quick pan sauce inspired by Greek ladolemono, a […]

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Spanish Tortillas

RECIPE Spanish Tortillas This classic Spanish tortilla or a Spanish potato omelet is delicious for breakfast or dinner.

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Spaghetti with Lemon Pesto

RECIPE Spaghetti with Lemon Pesto This pasta dish is modeled on the spaghetti al pesto from a family farm in Amalfi, Italy. The lemons commonly available in the U.S. are more acidic than Amalfi’s lemons, so to make a lemon pesto that approximates the original. A small amount of sugar […]

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