Beef Braciola

I am truly enamored with Lucinda Scala Quinn. Have been from the first time I saw her on television. Her cooking style and mine are similar.  Her recipes and ingredients are accessible and easy and wonderful for family and friends, for all sorts of occasions. Many of the recipes from Mad Hungry come from one of Lucinda’s [...]

Scalloped Tomatoes

I don’t know about the rest of you, but my side dishes bore me. I seem to make the same ones over and over and over.  I see wonderful recipes for sides and veggies, cut them out and never quite get there. I had seen Ina make this dish, printed it, and added it to the [...]

Stuffed Tomatoes

I love Giada de Laurentiis. I love her simplicity, the freshness of flavors, and that out of every cookbook I have dozens of things I want to make. Her recipes don’t take a lot of tweaking and don’t contain ridiculous ingredients that the home cook would not normally have in their pantry. This recipe, Stuffed [...]