Gourmet Food on a Budget
Recipes for Italian cuisine. Feel like you have taken a trip to one of the many beautiful Italian cities.
Cioppino-Style Shellfish Stew with cod, scallops, shrimp, and clams is based on the venerable San Francisco classic. Serve it with crusty sourdough bread to soak up the delicious soup. This soup makes an excellent choice for Palm Sunday or Christmas Eve dinner if you want something pescatarian-based.
These Air Fryer Chicken Thighs Stuffed with Pesto are simple for an everyday dinner or make an excellent dinner party dish.
This easy-to-make Tuscan chicken pasta salad sports sun-dried and fresh tomatoes, green onions, and fettucini. Serve it with crusty Italian bread and white wine. Enjoy!
Spaghetti and Meatballs don’t have to take hours and hours. These are Mrs. Frank Sinatra’s meatballs with the sauce from Joe Dog’s Mafia Cookbook. Served with some crunchy Italian bread to sop up the sauce, you can’t get more Italian than this.
Warm yourself with hot Lasagna Soup with Chicken Kale Sausage on a cold day. Make this delicious soup in your Instant Pot.
Shrimp and Pasta Blue Fin of Columbia, South Carolina is a tasty recipe for shrimp, broccoli, and sun-dried tomatoes in a blue cheese cream sauce. Enjoy it with a big salad and white wine.
We made this Veal Marsala skinny by using an air fryer instead of cooking the veal in fat. If you don’t want to use veal, feel free to use thinly sliced chicken breast. This recipe comes in at 472 grams per serving of 553 calories with the pasta, 358 grams per serving at 405 calories without the pasta. Enjoy this with a green salad and white wine.
These are jumbo shells stuffed with ground beef, carrots, onions, and spinach then topped with tomato mornay. Enjoy it with a big green salad and red wine.
Goat cheese and sun-dried tomato pizza with basil chiffonade is a party for your mouth. It might sound long and complicated, but it’s not. This happens to be my absolute favorite pizza. Once you make pizza at home, you won’t want to order it out again.
The sauce is from Joseph “Joe Dogs” Iannuzzi’s Mafia Cookbook. Even though the recipe for this Lasagna with Béchamel has been tweaked to reduce fat and calories, you would never know from the taste. Enjoy this with a salad and a glass of red wine.