by Lenora Boyle | Jun 12, 2014 | Italian dessert, Italian food, Italy Travel
Every year members of our Italian Club (SOFIA–Society of Fairfield Italian Americans) bake authentic Italian cookies for the local All Things Italian Street Festival in Fairfield, Iowa. Enjoy making these two recipes of Ricotta Cheese Italian cookies and a...
by Lenora Boyle | Jul 9, 2013 | Italian dessert, Italian food, Italy Travel
“I remember the three figs I ate this morning at the hotel in Cinque Terre, Italy. The first one was lush and deeply reddish purple; inside, the tendrils were green close to the outer edge and then richly dark all the way to the center. It was soft everywhere...
by Lenora Boyle | Dec 13, 2011 | Italian dessert, Italy Travel
I wanted to bake a light cookie for the Christmas holidays, and the Florentine Lace Cookies fit the bill. This recipe is from An Edible Mosaic which was adapted from Food Network Kitchens. I made a few changes also. For one thing, I used agave liquid instead of corn...
by Lenora Boyle | Aug 7, 2011 | Italian dessert, Italy Travel
As I prepare to teach at my 3rd annual Italy Retreat in Cinque Terre, (2011) (I do hope you consider joining me next year), I visited my Italian American family back east, where I learned to make pita piata. I think the actual name is Pit’Impiglianta, a Christmas...
by Lenora Boyle | Dec 25, 2010 | Italian dessert, Italy Travel
~A Calabrese American Christmas with my extended Calabrian Italian family in West Virginia~ For the last 29 years,my husband and our 2 kids drive 12 hours each way to join my parents, aunts, uncles, cousins of all ages, to eat the seven fishes dinner on Christmas Eve....
by Lenora Boyle | Jun 3, 2009 | Italian dessert, Italy Travel
In celebration of the All Things Italian Festival in Fairfield, Iowa, I’m posting some tasty cookie recipes as everyone bakes authentic Italian Sesame Seed Cookies and other Italian cookies, to be sold at he Festival. In case you haven’t noticed, most...
