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Dad’s Cookin’ Italian Recipes
This Italian/American classic is a delicious way to prepare chicken. It takes quite a bit of preparation, but it cooks rather quickly. Marsala is a fortified wine, similar to Sherry and Madeira. Fortified with brandy or another spirit, this process helped the wine stay fresh …
Portillo’s is famous in Chicago for Italian Beef, Chicago Dogs, and their Chopped Salad. This salad combines crisp lettuce and red cabbage, smooth pasta, salty bacon, sharp Gorgonzola cheese, and their sweet and savory House dressing.
This is another Chicago recipe, served all over the city and suburbs in Italian restaurants and food stands. The Italian taste is unmistakable, but the beef flavor still stands strong. For most Chicagoans, real Italian Beef is sliced, not shredded – if you want to …
When you have a lot of tomatoes from the garden, especially cherry or grape tomatoes, here’s another way to put them to good use. With these prepared in your cupboard, you can easily make some bruschetta as an appetizer for your Italian dinner.
I realized that I didn’t have a Chicken Scallopini with a classic red sauce. As opposed to Chicken Cacciatori where the chicken is cooked in the marinara, here the marinara is served over the top when the chicken is plated over the pasta. If made …
These make a nice side dish for Italian meals. If you add a pound of Italian sausage to the recipe you can fill a couple more zucchini and make them a complete meal.
This delicious grilled chicken recipe is easy to make, but takes some planning ahead for marinating time. It goes great with a Greek Salad and some fried potatoes or garlic bread.
Okay, this recipe is probably far more American than it is Italian, but it still has real Italian roots. You can make this simply, using store bought marinara and Alfredo sauce, or you can make those from scratch. This will make a delicious and satisfying …
Steak de Burgo is a popular dish in the Des Moines area, but not well known in other areas. Des Moines has a large and proud Italian population and a variety of excellent Italian restaurants. Steak de Burgo was developed at either Vic’s Tally-Ho or …
