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Osso Buco – Classic Milan, Italy (Milanese) Cuisine

Osso Buco

Wherever we travel, we always, ALWAYS order native, traditional, and local specialties! One of the most infamous and delicious recipes from Milan is Osso Buco. During our visit to this beautiful northern Italian city, I enjoyed Osso Buco (which means "bone with a hole", osso: bone, buco: hole), the name references the marrow hole at the center of a veal shank.   This delicious Milanese specialty results from a slow braising of veal shanks with vegetables in a rich ...

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The Best Soft and Chewy Snickerdoodles

  Year after year, on blog after blog, and in kitchens everywhere, you'll ALWAYS find a beloved recipe for classic Snickerdoodles on EVERYONE's favorite cookie list!  Ever so easy to make, these simple and delicious cookies are a cinnamon and sugar lover's dream come true!  My family enjoys these irresistible, perfectly-sweet, puffy dreams year-round, in addition to baking them for Christmas, when they're most popular.  Through the years I've always used a standard ...

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white chocolate biscotti

White Chocolate Drizzled Cranberry Pistachio Biscotti

  Biscotti (or contucci which is what my family calls them) have been baked for Christmas in my family since I can’t remember when.  As one of our favorite treats, it simply would not be the holidays without these wonderful Italian cookies.  And our current favorite is my White Chocolate Drizzled Cranberry Pistachio Biscotti.  …

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Cranberry Nut Crostini with Maple Balsamic Glaze

If you’re looking for a delicious, seasonal appetizer OR dessert, then this is it!  Cranberry Nut Crostini with Maple Balsamic Glaze! For Thanksgiving we took a brief getaway for a quiet and totally relaxing time on the coast. We stayed in a cottage that had a well-stocked kitchen of the basic cooking equipment so I…

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21 BEST Cranberry Recipes To Enjoy the Holidays

Are you as crazy for cranberries as I am?  Maybe or maybe not.  Well, I’m just nuts in love with cranberries and have been ever since taking my first bite into my mother’s delicious cranberry bread that she baked every Christmas for gifts to family and friends.  My mom was a generous soul with her cooking…

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Italian Food

Old Fashioned Caramel Apple Bread Pudding ~ Easy

Those of you who have read this blog for 10 years now (oh my, time flies doesn’t it?), know that a love affair with anything made with pumpkin just isn’t for me. Nope. I’ll pass, thank you. There’s only one recipe with pumpkin that’s edible to me and it’s for pumpkin brownies. And so here…

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Delicious January Recipes