Tasty Tangents

I hope everyone is having a very happy and joyous holiday season. I wish you all the best in the year to come and hope you’ll visit often. I promise many tantalizing, and healthy (as we recover from the season) posts to come.
And if you’ve never thought of buying one of those gingerbread house [...]

Whether you spell it mustazzuoli, mostazzoli, mostaccioli, mostaschol or something else, these biscotti-like cookies are a delicious traditional holiday treat from the southern Italian region of Calabria. My mom and I started with a hand-written recipe page from her mother, and then modified it a little based on what we had on hand. The recipe [...]

As the Easter weekend draws to a close I can’t believe how much we ate. As is traditional in our household, Good Friday involves only fish, and no meat. But one kind of fish just wouldn’t cut it. We started with pasta and a tomato sauce that included salted cod, which had been soaking all [...]