Saturday, May 7, 2022
Italian Style: Vegan Gluten Free Dishes - Grilled Vegetables & Air Fried Sweet Potatoes
Thursday, May 5, 2022
Italian Girls, Curly Hair! Part 3!
Here's a link to the hair products I use and for me personally, its a full on task to take care of curly hair. Most days, I actually wear my hair up in a bun or braid. I do get away with not washing hair for a few days because curly hair allows for it, just my preference. You do have to comb out your hair though on wash days because any type of bun or braid seriously knots my hair. The other element that I believe is the secret sauce for maintaining and getting my hair to look good is actually coloring my hair. I get my hair highlighted and honestly when I do, it controls my hair even more.
Let me know if you have more questions.
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Tuesday, May 3, 2022
New Recipe! Vegan and Gluten Free Pasta with Cannelli Beans!
It's Spring time, so many amazing new and clean dishes are on the horizon. I love cooking clean, so anytime I can put together something easy and super healthy is a huge win for me! What I ended up making recently was a very easy gluten free pasta dish with cannelli beans.
Here's the recipe:
- Gluten Free Pasta
- Cannelli Beans (I usually use Goya brand)
- Garlic
- Olive Oil
- I boil the water for my pasta first, I add a pinch of salt in my water and the only salt I use is Kosher and wait for the water to come to a boil.
- I open my can of beans and rinse them first.
- I put a pan on with olive oil (extra virgin), once the oil is hot I add my garlic its important not to burn your garlic so adjust your heat accordingly.
- I add my can of beans to the pan and start stirring the beans so they get entrenched with the garlic and oil I leave this on for about 15 minutes, its important not to burn your beans literally because they will dry out and start to crack, you want it moist.
- Ok, back to the pasta: the water is boiling and now I add my pasta. I cook the pasta for about 8-10 minutes, every pasta is different on cook times and also depends if you want it al dente, which I do.
- Then pasta is ready, I do the test with my wooden spoon scoop one out and eat it, if its good I then drain the pasta.
- I now marry the pasta with the beans and mix them up nicely.
- I like to garnish the final dish with basil and some red hot pepper flakes, and finito.! Enjoy.
Sunday, March 27, 2022
There is only one Papa.
Over the years on my site I’ve always talked about my father because he’s a huge influence in my life and sharing all the beautiful, amazing and loving stories about my father was always a great way to share what makes me an ‘Italian American Girl.’. I haven’t shared this here yet because I haven’t had the strength to talk about it more other than my personal profiles. My father passed away this October ironically on Columbus Day, the same day he arrived in America over 50 years ago. I’m heart broken and I miss him deeply, there is nothing more amazing than a father who loves you, supports you and makes you laugh. A true man always took care of everything, worked three to four jobs, always provided and still had time for his family and always made you feel special no matter what. Although I miss him terribly he somehow continues to inspire and motivate me.
There is only one Papa. ❤️
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Favorite Hair Products for Naturally Curly Hair - Italian American Girl Edition
Its' May! Time is flying and I feel like we've been locked up in the house forever, oh wait... we actually have.. how did all of this happen? ..So crazy.
Well with the newer positive changes happening, we're starting to get out and back to some sort of normalcy.
For me, this means going back to the salon and taking care of my hair and actually doing my hair to go somewhere. Who else has gotten to used to buns and scrunchy looks just because you weren't or had to do or go anywhere? ugh.. Well enough with that.
Today I'm going to share with you my top three styling products for naturally curly hair. I started using an organic hair care line, which I absolutely love. If you have naturally curly hair you know that it can be coarse, unruly and sometimes can dry out faster due to 'cheaper' products. I always get asked what I use on my hair because I manage to make my curls very separated, and not dry looking. So, I'll tell you though one of the major secrets is actually having great hair color on your hair, that is ..if you color your hair. My hair behaves so much better when its colored and high-lighted.. that is also an organic hair color line.
So with out further delay here are my top picks:
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O&M MAINTAIN THE MANE SHAMPOO (12OZ) |
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O&M MAINTAIN THE MANE CONDITIONER (12OZ) |
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OWAY CURLY POTION (240ML) |
Monday, May 3, 2021
Top 3 Best Pasta Dishes!
- Linguini with sauteed brocolli -which consists of some olive oil and a dash of red pepper which is my personal favorite.
- Believe it or not a simple dish yet so amazing is peas with pasta. I usually cook with gluten free pasta by the way. The peas were sauteed with onions and then incorporated with the pasta. This also has the flavor of the olive oil while it sauteed.
- Lastly, I love grilled zucchini with garlic and olive oil over a dish of pasta. I also add fresh sauce at times, just depending on how I want that dish.
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Saturday, January 2, 2021
Best Italian American Christmas Food Scenes
Happy New Year! Buon Anno everyone! Here are a few Italian American food scenes I captured over the last week, check out my Instagram account too for some daily food pics of dinners, food and scenes. What did you make this past holiday, what traditional dishes are you still making and keeping alive for your family traditions?
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Baileys Irish Cream Cordial - My favorite cordial is a great Irish creme, we spread the love of our international Irish friends. |
Arugula Pizza with Truffle Oil from Porta Pizza in Asbury Park, N.J. |
Pesto (basil leaves with garlic, olive oil blended in my mini) then sautéed over a low flame with #glutenfree pasta and stuffed #mushrooms with #glutenfree bread crumbs, garlic, and salt with olive oil drizzled and then cooked in the air fryer till crispy. 🍄 🍝 🌿 |
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Thursday, December 24, 2020
Italian Christmas Short Bread Cookies Recipe!
Tuesday, December 8, 2020
It's Time for the Best Italian Cookie Recipes!
It's that time of year when I share and re-share the best traditional Italian cookie recipes from years past to now. These are all family recipes, we may film new cookie recipes this year as the kids have gotten older and there are always new requests and variations.
Wednesday, August 19, 2020
Interview with On Air Expert & Entrepreneur Dawn Del Russo
Tuesday, August 11, 2020
Interview: Taylor Taglianetti Founder of The National Organization of Italian Americans in Film & Television
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Taylor Taglianetti |
Taylor is a producer and celebrity interviewer. She is currently producing a short documentary, Heirloom, featuring Isabella Rossellini, about the significance of gardens in the Italian American community. It is set to release in October 2020.
A graduate of NYU Tisch School of the Arts, Taylor has worked at Paradigm Talent Agency, NBCUniversal, Silver Pictures, and Maven Pictures. In addition to developing various feature length projects, Taylor has experience producing and directing short films. Her debut short film, Generation Hollow, was produced by the leading non-profit, Reel Works, and was an Official Selection at the 2014 Girls Film Festival and the Juror’s Choice for Outstanding Filmmaking at the 2014 Women of African Descent Film Festival.
Monday, February 10, 2020
Italian American Girl T-Shirts!
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I'm Italian and Yes, I Have Curly Hair. Part 2 - Most Read Post with Questions!
Roasted Red Peppers and Marinated Eggplant - Vegan Sunday Dinner
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Friday, November 29, 2019
Italian Christmas Cookies Recipe! Most Viewed Recipe!
Biscotti de Natale
1 lb butter
1 cup sugar
Six eggs
2 teaspoons vanilla
5 cups flour
6 teaspoons of baking soda
-Bake at 375° 10–12 minutes until light golden
-Combine butter sugar vanilla and eggs.
-Add flour and baking soda
-Should be fluffy and not stiff drop by rounded teaspoon onto nonstick cookie sheet bake and allow this thoroughly cool.
Icing
-One box of confectioners sugar
-2 1/2 teaspoons of lemon extract
-Combine and ice cookies for the traditional decorated look. Tweet
Saturday, November 16, 2019
It's That Time of Year! Buy the Italian American Girl T-Shirts for your Favorite IAG!
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Tuesday, November 5, 2019
Best Soup for Fall! Italian Zucchini Soup
Friday, November 1, 2019
Italian Curly Hair - The Process
Many of you sent comments and emails about being of a diverse background and having curly hair, and how to deal with it, so I said I would start sharing more of my insight on this topic. Managing and styling curly hair is very unique and does require some patience. I grew up feeling very sad a times because I didn't identify with other girls when I was the only one with curly hair and couldn't really relate to how they blew out their hair straight or wore it a certain cute ways. Girls can make you feel bad at times. Looking back as kids we were (are) so fragile and now I think back and say wow, my hair is actually powerful now, so this also something that may be beneficial to children who maybe don't always look like someone or may have different characteristics. Education and empowerment are key.
Funny how the world works. So, in order to find myself and get to a point of being happy about my hair I had to learn how to do my hair. Now, I was lucky because my sister grew up and ended up owning her own salon and becoming one of the best stylists out there. So, as she got great, she used my hair as her experimental space. By the time I got to college, I had grown out my hair, I was definitely coloring it and learned that cutting it shorter only made it swell. The way you see my hair above is basically how I've worn it the last 25 years. I will share more on how to style and maintain curly hair, I've been talking about doing a video. Stay tuned. Tweet