Tag: food
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Nonna Elda’s Spicy Chili Giardiniera
Only three ingredients to preserving your own super spicy homemade chili giardiniera! Nonna Elda’s spicy chili giardiniera is a staple in our family’s kitchen. It came from her own grandmother’s chili giardiniera recipe in Italy but has been updated since coming to Canada in the 1960’s with smaller, hotter, peppers that she started growing some…
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Nonna Elda’s Christmas Recipe for Chocolate Torrone
Chocolate Torrone is a family favourite in Italian households all over the diaspora. It’s easy to make it requires no baking and the recipe is enough for 8 logs that keep well for a month when kept somewhere cool and wrapped. This is the perfect gift to make for when visiting friends and family over…
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How to make Ciambelle Ciociare
Today we are making Ciambelle Ciociare, a kind of peasant bread or bread donuts that is traditional in the Ciociare region of Italy. We are making it for one of Nonna’s granddaughter’s weddings. This will accompany a full Italian cookie sweets table but these ciambelle are not sweet, they are anise flavoured and they are…
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Nonna Elda’s Marry Me Cannellini Beans
Welcome to our second recipe in Nonna Elda’s recipes for under $10 series! Nonna knows how hard the rising cost of groceries is on everybody and wants all her internet grandchildren to eat well even with less than $10. These absolutely delicious and cosy Marry-Me Cannellini beans are perfect and budget conscious. Ready in 15…
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Nonna Elda’s Step-by-Step Guide for how to cure your own Capicola/ Capocollo
Nonna’s step-by-step instructions for how to cure your own capicola / capocollo. Love deli meats and charcuterie? You can enjoy the best thinly sliced capicola at home with your own Beswood electric deli slicer. And if you really want to live the Nonna lifestyle, you can cure your own with our free recipe download!
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