Homemade Pasta

With many of your favorite restaurants closed and all this extra time on your hands, why not make pasta!? It’s fun. It’s romantic. It’s delicious. And it’s easier than you think! Kids love to help make it (it’s just like … Read more

Healthy Italian Chicken Noodle Soup

I love this twist on chicken noodle soup. Just adding some fresh herbs, tomatoes and ditallini pasta, we turn a classic soup into an Italian “zuppa”. It’s so flexible, you can really add whatever veggies you’d like. Of course I … Read more

Homemade Pasta with My Daughter

POTATO & CHEESE GNOCCHI

This recipe for homemade gnocchi comes from a tattered cookbook from my great grandma’s church, Mater Dolorosa, in Williamsport, PA. All the little old Italian ladies collaborated their recipes from the homeland into one and this … Read more

12 Tips to a Happy & Healthy Holiday

1. Embrace your inner dasher
Tis the season for intervals! I’m adamant about getting my clients to change up their cardio workouts when the 1-hour elliptical jaunt has gotten all too comfortable. Not only are intervals efficient of your time, … Read more

A Chef’s Finals Week

It was my final week living in Italy. I had finished up my stage at Peck in Milano, made an impromptu trip to Sicily for the weekend, then arrived to the familiar village of Colorno. This small town hosts my … Read more

chef peanut’s hand made pasta

Peanut is making Pasta while attempting to do her best at speaking Italian (it’s been a few months since Italy, but she’s still got it!) Hand made ravioli is on the menu today! Delizioso!

PEANUT’S EGG PASTA (3 lbs.)

Ingredients:… Read more