When a recipe begins by telling me I probably have most of the ingredients on hand, I'm sold. Most recently, it was a recipe in the March issue of Martha Stewart's Everyday Food magazine. The ...

This video features a quick and easy pasta meal made with salami, sundried tomatoes, olives, and white wine, using penne pasta. The salami is fried until crispy, and its fat is used to enhance the ...

Not all pasta dishes need to be swimming in red sauce. Take this salami, artichoke and ricotta pasta salad recipe. A few classic Italian flavors come together for one simple yet satisfying dish. 2.

When hard salami spends time in a hot pan, the meat’s saltiness comes to the fore — just the right touch in this tangle of flavors. We used finocchiona here, but Genoa or something spicier, like a ...

Thanks to Randy Altig and his new book, “Tuscany Next Left,” you don’t have to fly to Italy to sample the region’s amazing cuisine. The author and TV host stops by to whip up a tasty dish from the ...

Talk to the best cooks in Italy, and they’ll tell you the secret to great pasta is an ingredient many American cooks throw out - the starchy pasta cooking water. They always reserve a cup or two to ...

Cheese-filled tortellini, Italian salami, plenty of fresh chopped veggies, and a delicious homemade Italian dressing to finish it off — this tortellini pasta salad is a fresh and fun twist on a ...

Make salami pasta alla gricia, or skip the recipe entirely with a freestyle puttanesca. By Sam Sifton Good morning. Pasta alla gricia is one of the all-stars of the Roman pasta canon, a simple ...

Here's the reason that pasta tastes better in Italy, according to Randy Altig, lifestyle expert and author of "Tuscany...Next Left": Italians cook their pasta with unsalted water for half of its ...