There are days when I crave something quick, yet different from the classic aglio e olio or carbonara pasta. I usually choose this pasta recipe with tuna and broccoli when I have a leftover can of...
On chilly days, I sometimes find a bag of winter-shaped pasta in the cupboard: snowflakes, snowmen, sleds, little houses. I use them when I don't feel like complicating things, especially if I...
I don't know how others are, but I made tripe soup for the first time before I tried cooking pasta with bacon. And it was a resounding failure; I don't even want to remember it. But with this...
The first time I made calzone, I got frustrated when the dough stuck to the countertop and I ended up tearing a piece off. Luckily, I patched it up and no one noticed. I made it one evening when I...
I don't know how it is for others, but for me, when the craving for pizza hits, I don't complicate things with orders and deliveries, because nothing beats a homemade one. The first time I really...
I remember the first time I tried making pizza at home; the dough turned out like a fluffy bread that went wild in the oven, with huge bubbles that made me wonder how anything could fit on the tray....
To be honest, the first time I tried making yogurt rolls, I rushed and added all the yogurt at once, directly over the yeast, and nothing rose. I threw it all away and started over. Since then, I...
The first time I tried this combination, I added too little sauce and the pasta turned out a bit dry, so I had to improvise on the spot with some hot water and a bit more tomato juice. Ironically, it...
I made this for the first time one evening when I just didn't feel like cooking anything complicated. I had a leftover tortilla from another dish, a rather sad sausage, some corn left over from the...
The first time I made this pizza at home, I added too much water and ended up kneading for about half an hour, wondering whether to keep going or just throw everything away. I only had a cube of...
The first time I tried using the bread machine, I was almost sure something great would come out, especially since I had the recipe book handy. Well, what I ended up with was a compact thing that was...
Some time ago, I woke up one day craving pasta "with meat and sauce," as my grandmother used to say, but I had exactly what I didn't want to use in the fridge. And, of course, I had forgotten to buy...