Ciao Italia

A meal typical of the Puglia region: orecchiette pasta, fava beans with chicory and dried figs.

Classic onion soup, zucchini soup with ditalini pasta.

Making a dove-shaped bread called colomba and several variations.

Shrimp with linguine; baked squid and scallops; Venetian marinated sole.

Stuffed pizza; potato pizza.

Cannelloni stuffed with porcini mushrooms.

Roasting coffee beans for espresso; chocolate cake; amaretto cream pudding.

Making sausage antipasto, a shrimp cocktail and a rotolo di prosciutto.

Recipes for a winter meal, including sage polenta and a rabbit dish.

Mary Ann Esposito makes cherry rolls and her mother's dried cherry cookies.

Rice dishes including a rice ball, an eggplant and rice casserole and rice cakes.

A vegetarian meal featuring portobello mushrooms, stuffed red peppers and fried zucchini.

A trio of quick pasta sauces: an uncooked tomato sauce, a sun-dried tomato sauce and a black olive sauce.