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Fresh Photos of the Traditional Vignarola Recipe

I made a vignarola the other night with the help of a friend who had never made this dish before.  It was later than I had counted on by the time we got home and I was debating whether to … Continue reading

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Pasta with Vignarola Leftovers

Waste not, want not … thus, if there was enough Vignarola left over the next day (see yesterday’s post … why not use it for a pasta dish? Here are the vignarola leftovers, to which I shall add, also left over, some … Continue reading

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Vignarola – Spring veggies for April Fool’s Day

Here, on this lovely blue tray, is an array of stray Spring vegetables: fresh peas in their pod, fresh broadbeans or fava beans as they are called in North America, artichokes — and asparagus, but we won’t talk about the asparagus … Continue reading

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