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Swap Your Oven for the Grill: Chicken with Peas & Tomatoes and Grilled Vegetables Two Ways

August 19, 2013 by Lisa Pisano Leave a Comment

Swap Your Oven for the Grill: Chicken with Peas & Tomatoes and Grilled Vegetables Two Ways

You know that expression, “If you can’t take the heat, then get out of the kitchen?” Yeah.  Well, that’s my approach to cooking dinner during the summer months. I grill just about everything that I can, but not in a way that you’d expect. I actually utilize my grill as an outdoor oven, and find […]

Filed Under: Food, Kid & Family Friendly Tagged With: chicken on the grill, cooking on the grill, grilled vegetable recipes, recipe ideas, using the grill instead of oven

Farmer’s Market Sunday Supper {Recipe}

July 7, 2013 by Lisa Pisano Leave a Comment

Farmer’s Market Sunday Supper {Recipe}

Farmer’s Markets throughout the New York City Metro Area are just as abundant as the fresh, local produce that they peddle.  While the open markets in my neck of the woods in Northern New Jersey tend to be open on Sunday mornings, I do know of many others available during weekdays, too. I just LOVE […]

Filed Under: Food, Kid & Family Friendly Tagged With: basil, eating local, Everyday Food, farmer's market, fresh corn, fresh produce, fresh tomatoes, Ina Garten, Martha Stewart, recipe ideas

Mom a la Mode’s Pizza Margherita

March 15, 2013 by Lisa Pisano 1 Comment

Mom a la Mode’s Pizza Margherita

Earlier this week, my Facebook Fan Page was all a flutter thanks to the many new folks who LIKED the mom a la mode page, propelling it over 400 LIKES.  As a way to say THANKS, I hosted a virtual pizza party featuring this here homemade Pizza Margherita: I thought you might like the recipe so […]

Filed Under: Food, Kid & Family Friendly Tagged With: Campari tomatoes, Facebook fan page, Fresco by Scotto, grilled pizza, handling fresh pizza dough, homemade pizza, Margherita, Pastosa, pizza, pizza pan, pizza sauce recipe, recipe ideas, Sicilian oregano, Tuttorosso, Williams Sonoma

Polenta Primer with Chef Gerri

February 19, 2013 by Lisa Pisano Leave a Comment

Polenta Primer with Chef Gerri

I first met Geraldine Sarnataro – or Chef Gerri – about five years ago at The Institute of Culinary Education in Manhattan, where she teaches professional level pastry arts, culinary classes and a variety of specialty classes on bread making, pizza making and Italian home cooking. I was working as their in-house PR Manager, and she […]

Filed Under: Food, Fun, Kid & Family Friendly, Travel Tagged With: cooking tips, cooking vacations, cucina della terra, culinary vacations, geraldine sarnataro, how to cook polenta, institute of culinary education, Italian cooking at home, polenta, recipe ideas, Umbria cooking school

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