Source: Mom, cir. 1970’s Eggplant Parmesan Since forever my mom has been making her eggplant Parmesan. When I knew she was making this dish, I was always close by to nibble on the fried eggplant. There were times when she almost didn’t have enough for her dish, but somehow we always made it work. I …
Source: Nonni cir. 1970’s Fritatta Left-overs in an italian’s kitchen quickly become a Fritatta. It’s just a fact of life that old Italian women or men who cook for their family live for the moment when they can put a fritatta together for dinner, and kill the night before’s left-overs too. Often there is left-over …
Source: myself cir. 1990’s Roasted Vegetables I’ve been doing roasted vegetables since I was married, so the early 90’s, and we had our organic farm. Vegetables were always in abundance. Our farmer specialized in heirloom varietals. It was a treat. He took the average carrot and made it extremely sexy. Full of flavor, and packed …
