Domenica Cooks

Gulasch alla Triestina

Domenica Marchetti — Sat, 18 Jan 2020 13:41:19 +0000

Hello and Happy New Year ~ Buon Anno a tutti! It’s a new decade, but, mi dispiace, the same old me, posting belatedly and sporadically. Some things don’t change. Maybe there’s comfort in that? On the subject of comfort, this recipe for Gulasch alla Triestina, a paprika-spiked stew from northern Italy, is just that ~ […]

Dicembre Dolce: Bittersweet Mocha Grappa Torte with Walnuts

Domenica Marchetti — Sat, 07 Dec 2019 12:54:52 +0000

Welcome to Dicembre Dolce 2019. For many of us, this month’s baking is about cookies, cookies, and more cookies. But it’s not a bad idea to have a cake recipe or two at the ready, whether a plain but delicious cake for breakfast and snacking, or something more celebratory ~ a cake for finishing a […]

Savory Carrot Crostata, a Vintage Recipe from La Cucina Italiana

Domenica Marchetti — Wed, 30 Oct 2019 11:34:26 +0000

[NOTE: This is a sponsored post, written in collaboration with La Cucina Italiana, which has launched an English-language version of its website.] * * * * * * * * I have long been a champion of carrots, that workhorse of the vegetable world. Here’s what I wrote about them in The Glorious Vegetables of […]

Late Summer Corn and Farro Soup

Domenica Marchetti — Sun, 25 Aug 2019 11:23:59 +0000

Buying fresh corn at the farmers’ market in Virginia is always a bit of a crap shoot. No matter how thoroughly you plow through the bins or (gently) yank down the tassels of individual ears to peek at the kernels, you never know if the ones you choose will be honey-sweet or starchy duds. In […]

A Cake for Apricot Season

Domenica Marchetti — Fri, 02 Aug 2019 12:26:55 +0000

Italy introduced me to apricots many years ago when I was a child. The blushing orange fruit would just be coming into season when we arrived in Rome at the end of the school year, and for the next month or so I ate them every day and at every meal, the pits piling up […]

A Writing Workshop in Italy and Other Events

Domenica Marchetti — Fri, 28 Jun 2019 11:55:56 +0000

As someone who cooks and writes about food, I spend many hours in the kitchen. The recipes I test vary from day to day and season to season, but they often involve tasks such as cleaning and chopping vegetables, refreshing sourdough starter, baking cookies or cakes, ladling boiling hot preserves into jars, or rolling out […]

Cracked Sfogliatelle

Domenica Marchetti — Sun, 05 May 2019 13:17:42 +0000

What do you call it when you’re attempting to make one thing and end up with something rather different, but just as good? Faux fail? Happy accident? I’m calling this one Cracked Sfogliatelle. I was aiming for sfogliatelle frolle, a classic Neapolitan pastry filled with ricotta and semolina ~ not to be confused, by the […]

Frittelle di Mele alla Valdostana

Domenica Marchetti — Sat, 19 Jan 2019 12:44:48 +0000

TOUR INFORMATION: There are FOUR SPOTS open for our Beautiful Liguria-Domenica Cooks Culinary Tour in Liguria, May 6 – 13, 2019; and TWO SPOTS for our Abruzzo Presto-Domenica Cooks Culinary Tour in Abruzzo, September 22 – 29, 2019. Details for both are on my Tours Page. * * * * * * * * * […]

Dicembre Dolce: Italian Rainbow Cookies

Domenica Marchetti — Fri, 14 Dec 2018 13:13:09 +0000

I did not expect to fall for these cookies. They were not part of my family’s holiday baking repertoire when I was growing up, or when my kids were growing up; in fact, until a couple of weeks ago I had never made them. I just never felt drawn to the kaleidoscope colors of classic […]

Dicembre Dolce: Almond-Amaretto Cake

Domenica Marchetti — Sat, 08 Dec 2018 14:12:04 +0000

* * * * * * * * TOUR INFORMATION: Registration is now open for our Beautiful Liguria-Domenica Cooks Culinary Tour in Liguria, May 6 – 13, 2019; and our Abruzzo Presto-Domenica Cooks Culinary Tour in Abruzzo, September 22 – 29, 2019. We have FOUR SPOTS LEFT for each tour. Details for both are on […]