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[Stinky The Clown]

Here's a great website for modern Italian recipes. To be sure there are some classics here, but a great deal of it is modern stuf - variations on the broad theme, but made for today's tastes. Surely you'll find some bnits of inspiration. All follow the basic concept of authentic Italian cooking - fresh ingredients, simply prepared.

http://www.italiancookingandliving.com/recipes/index.php

[NMDemDist2]

1. bookmarked for later, thanks! n/t

[eleny]

2. There's a lifetime's worth of recipes there

This is definitely a keeper. I'm intrigued by the Chestnut Cookie Roll. I bet that's really good. I don't usually make complicated desserts where you have to make dough and roll and like that. But how else am I ever going to know how this tastes if I don't make it myself? I'm going to make this one this fall as soon as the weather cools off again.

[Stinky The Clown]

3. The dessert recipes are all more involved than the others

I've been buying this magazine for a while. I like the sensibilities of their take on Modern Italian. We all know the old standbys. But these are what one might encounter in a contemporary Italian restaurant there ... or even over here.

[Warpy]

4. I wanted to cry when I read the list of pasta recipes

Most grocers here carry spaghetti, linguine, elbow macaroni, and broad egg noodles. They have 15 kinds of chile peppers and a dozen different varieties of both corn and flour tortillas, but they have not yet discovered PASTA.

Oh, wait, the wild and crazy guys at my local grocery got some SHELLS in last week! I'm sure it was an oversight. I bought four boxes.

I've bookmarked that site, though. At least I can try the BREADS.

[Stinky The Clown]

7. Gawd, I coldn't survive in a place like that.

There must be SOME place you can get pasta. Even mail order. Hell, I'll buy ya some fer about a buck anna quarter a pound and send it to ya!

[Callalily]

5. Oh thank you.

I have a friend who is leaving for Italy today. Although he claims not to be a good cook, I'll definitely forward this link to him. Sure he can find some culinary skills/recipes here to impress his girlfriend (s) when he gets back.

[Stinky The Clown]

6. Is he going to visit or to live there?

[Callalily]

8. Oh just a visit,

can't wait to hear his stories when he gets back.

[REACTIVATED IN CT]

9. Grazi !

I have been looking for recipes that call for canned artichokes since I loaded up on them when my local soopermarket had them for 25 cents a can on the dented can rack. The frittata looks good (I usually make it with tuna) as does the tuna/artichoke/pasta dish.

Many recipes call for the marinated chokes. What would I add when using the canned ones instead ?