Sauces - Italia Pasta Recipes Sauces for Pasta

• Franchi Daigo's One Pot Red Sauce: A "tried and true" villa recipe for your basic red sauce, Italian Style - simple and unadorned. Best yet, all you need is a pot, knife, spoon and can opener.
• The Umbrian Red Sauce: Life is great when all you do is add bacon and a unique regional sauce is born.
• Pesto alla Villa: If the kids continue to complain after giving them a bruschetta (see above) have them prepare this one as punishment.
• Our Own Clam Sauce: Very, very yummy.

Pizza - Italian Pizza Recipes

• Ricks Stone Pizza: Long go dismayed by the abundance of "pizza product" out there (trot out the usual frozen pizza, Dominoes, Pat's, Little Ceasar's, Marios, Pizza Hut, Peace of Pizza...), I have set out to become an expert in adult pizza.

Sides - Italian Recipe Menu Antipasti

• Parmesiana Style Eggplant: Based on the experience of Mario's Umbrian Grill.
• Pantelleria Patate The wee island of Pantelleria produces loads of capers. What to do with them? Cook them with potatoes.
• Funghi alla Franchi: Take advantage of that BBQ or wood oven and grill up some of these babies.
• Zucchini FrustareIf you have a bunch of zucchini in your garden that flower to the nines, but never produce the fruit...you're not alone.

Chicken - Italian Food Menu

• Pizza Chicken Recipe: From the Midwest of the good ol' USA comes a classic recipe that would come from no other kitchen in the world. We dare you to cook this for your Italian hosts!
• Beer Can Chicken: This is American...there is no way you will find an Italian shoving a beer can inside the cavity of a chicken and grilling...unless that Italian lives in the U.S. Great summer recipe.

Beef

• Our SI-FI Bisteca: A true road food. Strap that filet to your engine mount, drive from Siena to Florence and its done. Ready to eat. Medium rare.

Fish

• Yvette's Pesce Autumno: Something for the fall when porcini mushrooms abound, grapes are squeezed and the fish are jumpin'.
• Pesce Sale: This one is at once a magical, easy and fabulous tasting. There are three requirements - whole fish, coarse salt and an oven.
• Bacon Wrapped Scallop Kabobs: The title says it all. Little pasta on the side and your summer is complete.

Desert - Recipes For Italian Food

• Cantucci Sophistication is defined by pushing back from the table and dipping a cantucci into a glass of Vin Santo. Here's the recipe - try it at home, not on the road.
• Pere da Lucca: Wine cooked pears. A dish to die for and crazy easy to make. Even the men folk can make this one.
• Ricotta Cake: Like you've died and gone to heaven.
• Tiramisu From Alberto: Sure it lots of eggs and coffee...but who would have thought these two things can make heaven.

Buon appetito!