Here’s a great, simple recipe for pesto from David Rocco. Once you’ve made the recipe, place it in festive jars or plastic tubs for gifts (keeping a few for yourself of course). In case you haven’t noticed, I like David Rocco and if you haven’t had the …
Category: Food TV Recipe Tests
Food TV Recipe tests.
Recipe Test: Cook’s Country Lemon Pudding Cake
Cook’s Country recipe for Lemon Pudding Cake.
David Rocco’s Limoncello Tiramisu
This is a recipe from David Rocco, VILLA MARIA’S LEMON TIRAMISU. I still had some of the limoncello that I made a while ago so I decided to try this one. The ingredients are simple, eggs, cream, sugar, lemon, limoncello, white chocolate and ladyfingers. I did find that the ladyfingers I bought …
David Rocco’s LA SALSA DI 5 MINUTI (10 Minute Basic Pasta Sauce)
This one is for Mom, she asked if I’d tried it and said it was great. She was right! Of course, I just couldn’t follow the recipe exactly because it didn’t have enough garlic so I added a little more but otherwise followed the plan. Here’s the recipe for La …
Cake Balls/Cake Pops for a Birthday
Apparently I’ve been living in a cave for the last couple years when it comes to Cake Pops and Cake Balls and it seems that college daughter was well ahead of her time since she has made what she calls “cake soup” smashing her birthday cake together since she was small. Recently someone asked …

David Rocco’s La Ribolita
I have watched the new Cooking Channel lately and have noticed that although there are some new shows, there are an awful lot of reruns of old series that I watched as a child and too many Food Network shows to mention. Not that I particularly mind, I actually get quite …

Fourth of July Chocolate Fruit Tart
Recipe and photograph of Chocolate Fruit Tart
Chocolate Cupcakes with Peanut Butter Icing – better than Peanut Butter cups!
Recipe for chocolate cupcakes with peanut butter frosting from The Barefoot Contessa.
Breaded Pork Cutlets (Pork Schnitzel) – the Shar-Pei of pork
Recipe test for America’s Test Kitchen Breaded Pork Cutlets (Pork Schnitzel)
Food’s much better here . . .Cook’s Country Steak and Super-Stuffed Baked Potatoes
Recipe test of Cook’s Country Broiled Steak and Super-Stuffed Baked Potato