Tag: Italian

  • Butternut Squash & Tofu Ricotta Stuffed Shells

    I love Italian food and trying to recreate dishes that I find on menus in fancy restaurants. One night I was looking at menus online for a new town I planned on traveling to and noticed butternut squash & ricotta stuffed shells being offered at a restaurant (that I don’t recall now). It sounded like […]

  • Vegetable lasagna, bruschetta, & mixed green salad

    A bottle of red, a bottle of white It all depends upon your appetite I’ll meet you any time you want In our Italian Restaurant. -Billy Joel, “Scenes from an Italian Restaurant” So, we weren’t actually in an Italian restaurant, but in our home, making one of my favorite meals when we have company over. […]

  • Garlic & Lemon Pasta with Arugula

    Vincent ‘Vinnie’ Antonelli: Arugula. I haven’t had arugula in six weeks. Supermarket Manager: What’s that? Vincent ‘Vinnie’ Antonelli: It’s a vegetable. -My Blue Heaven This is one of my favorite go-to recipes when I have a ton of arugula from my CSA (which I happen to have this week). I originally found this recipe submitted […]

  • Four Brothers Restaurant Review – Niagara Falls, ON

    Upon our visit to Niagara Falls on the Canadian side, I was becoming quite dismayed to find any good vegan options close to our hotel. After becoming frustrated in a slow internet search from our hotel room, I decided just to walk the local streets and see what I could find along the way. We […]