This is the family-favorite recipe taken from my cookbook, “MaMa Mia Cucina”, a recipe passed down through the generations and now to each of you. This is tradition. I hope you love this recipe as much as we do! Ingredients you will need for this recipe: sweet Italian sausage butter one large onion celery mushrooms […]
Read MorePumpkin Cheesecake as Demonstrated on NBC Charlotte Today
As demonstrated on NBC WCNC Charlotte Today It was National Pumpkin Day! And, what better way to celebrate with, yet, another ‘sweet’ treat this week, as we roll into Halloween only days away! As a personal chef, tis’ the season for pumpkin, sweets, cheesecakes and candy. Well, you know… This is a recipe that […]
Read MoreMinestrone Recipe Charlotte Today Cooking Segment
NBC’s Charlotte Today Cooking Segment VIDEO – Click HERE Minestrone! Or, Minestroneeee as some like to say. Either way, it is, what I think of as some of summer’s last blessings from the garden, as we reap and gather our last vegetables. It’s a good ole’ hearty pot of vegetable soup with a little pasta, beans, basil […]
Read MoreApricot Cake – Happy Mother’s Day!
Happy Mother’s Day! My thanks to WCNC-TV’s Charlotte Today and lovely co-host, Colleen Odegaard. Our cooking segment, celebrating Mother’s Day, my mom and grandmother (Noni) in baking their favorite “Apricot Cake” was sweetness, for sure, on many levels. My mom and Noni prepared this cake in a traditional bundt pan for the ‘ladies’ for their many […]
Read MoreA Lenten Fish Dinner Cooking Segment NBC / WCNC-TV s Charlotte Today Show
‘Fish Fridays’ or ‘meatless Fridays’ is a season during Lent in which Catholics are obstained from meat. Growing up Catholic, it was fried flounder most Fridays, which brings me to my cooking segment on NBC / WCNC-TV’s Charlotte Today. Our local Catholic church hosts a ‘Friday Fish Fry’ each Friday during the season of Lent. I […]
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