Things to Check When Decorating Your Home for the Holidays
Decorating for the holidays is a big part of what makes the cold months feel so magical. When decorating this is an excellent time to perform basic home maintenance. Maintenance…
How To Celebrate Italian Christmas Traditions at Home
Christmas is a holiday that is celebrated around the world, and Italy knows how to truly make a magical time. Luckily, you don’t have to travel to another country to…
How To: Preparing to Host Events for the Holiday Season.
Glad tidings can be ever gladder when you're hosting people for the holidays. Whether you're going to be entertaining some relatives for an extended visit or having a holiday dinner,…
4 Holiday Shopping Tips for the Busy Mom
The holidays are right around the corner, and stores have already begun advertising hot items and specialty food items. Even though you're busy, there's no doubt that you want to…
Risotto with Seafood and Peas: Your New Christmas Eve Meal Tradition.
copyright 2018 Art of Living, PrimaMedia,Inc Thanks to everyone who attended my Christmas Eve Dinner event at Bucks County Community College in Newtown, Pa... this past weekend..we had a blast…
Holidays in Red: Festive Apples, Cranberries, and Brachetto Recipe | Book Giveaway
Copyright Art of Living, PrimaMedia, Inc 2017/Maria Liberati Holiday countdown and I am in 'cranberry mode'...I love this little berry so healthy.. and versatile...dessert or side dish with Holiday turkey..so…
Bruschetta Toscana|Seasonal Holiday Appetizers
The Holidays are almost here.. and in honor of my Gourmand World Award Winning Book The Basic Art of Italian Cooking: Holidays and Special Occasions-2nd edition ..... I wanted to…
The Food Lover's Ultimate Holiday Gift Guide | Part Two | Pasta Frolla Pie Crust Recipe
HOLIDAY GUIDE 2 copyright 2016 Maria Liberati/Art of Living, PrimaMedia,Inc Merry Christmas from the Liberati family to yours with a Christmas Card from my niece Sofia Liberati and…
The Food Lover's Ultimate Holiday Gift Guide | Part One
copyright Art of Living, PrimaMedia,Inc 2016/ Maria Liberati With the Holiday season approaching fast many have their mind set on gifts and the Holiday table...so instead of 1 Holiday Guide…
After Christmas Crostata Made With Leftovers…
copyright 2015 Art of Living, PrimaMedia,Inc/Maria Liberati The Christmas Holidays are my favorite time to be creative in the kitchen with all of the leftovers! Leftover sugar cookie…
2 Italian Cuisine Night of the Seven Fishes Recipes | A Christmas State of Mind
Christmas is a state of mind….and it doesn’t matter how you choose to celebrate ... but here’s hoping you get to celebrate in some way by just relaxing with great…
Artisan Castagnaccio | Cooking for Christmas
A Castagnaccio for my Christmas Holiday Table. Thanks to Chestnut Hill Tree Farms for providing the chestnut flour..a not so easy to find product and this interesting recipe is a…
Santo Stefano, Christmas Leftovers, and Nativity Scenes
And the week continues on as one long Festa..today is Santo Stefano ( Saint Stephen).. this day has been a national Holiday here in Italy since 1946. But this…
11 Holiday Gifts Perfect For Foodies | Holiday Gift Guide
[dropshadowbox align="none" effect="lifted-both" width="250px" border_width="1" border_color="blue" ]Holiday Gift Guide 2012[/dropshadowbox] “A lovely thing about Christmas is that it's compulsory, like a thunderstorm, and we all go through it together”. -…
Christmas Eve Stories and a Chocolate Panettone
copyright 2011 art of living, PrimaMedia,Inc/Maria Liberati Here is a Christmas Eve excerpt from the Gourmand World Award winning Book The Basic Art of Italian Cooking: Holidays & Special Occasions-2nd edition.…
Pasta Shells with Lobster and Spinach | Christmas in Rome
A perfect Christmas concert at Santa Prassede in the center of Rome, was an unexpected surprise as I arrived on Sunday. I have heard about this church before but it…
Christmas Memories of Rome | Farfalle con Tonno (Farfalle Pasta with Tuna)
copyright 2011 Art of Living,PrimaMedia,Inc/Maria Liberati (excerpted from The Basic Art of Italian Cooking: Holidays & Special Occasions-2nd edition) http://www.italyheaven.co.uk/ Christmas and the holiday season in Rome has never been…
Christmas Memories of Rome & Mushroom Tarts
To Celebrate the Holidays I will be posting excerpts from The Basic Art of Italian Cooking: Holidays & Special Occasions-2nd edition winner of the Gourmand World Cookbook Awards and was…
Happy La Befana & A Royal Recipe
coyright 2010 art of living, PrimaMedia,Inc/Maria Liberati La Befana is almost here or as tradition goes she should be 'flying' by on her broomstick sometime before dawn tomorrow morning, the…
Limoncini with Creamy Tuna for a Holiday Lunch
copyright 2010, art of living,PrimaMedia, Inc./Maria Liberati Quote of the Day: " We all exist under the same sun, no matter where we live" Did you know that... When you make your own mayonnaise…
A New Year's Day Dinner & Keywords to Avoid
copyright 2010 art of living,PrimaMedia,Inc/Maria Liberati New Year's Day Lunch/ Dinner was a meal filled ( of course) with great food. and conversation...but also with keywords to avoid.. words like-potatoes.. biscotti....…
Cassola..A Traditional Jewish-Italian Dessert
copyright 2010 art of living, PrimaMedia,Inc/Maria Liberati Cassola is traditionally a Jewish dessert, but because the main ingredient is fresh ricotta cheese it is also a traditional cheesecake served…
Five Easy Ways to Cook Seafood or Surviving Another Feast of the Seven Fishes..
After surviving another Feast of the Seven Fishes here in Italy (the meal typically celebrated in Italy and now all over the world for Christmas Eve with many seafood dishes)…
Traditional Italian Christmas Dinner in the Mountains of Abruzzo
copyright 2010 art of living/PrimaMedia,Inc/ Maria Liberati Posting on breaks between eating and cooking today...from the mountains of Abruzzo..from Vigilia( Christmas Eve) Feast of the Seven Fishes (and almost…
Hot Stracciatella Soup and Warm Holiday Wishes!
copyright 2010 art of living,PrimaMedia,Inc/Maria Liberati Anticipating my Christmas in Italy this year and planning my menu...I am reflecting (for lack of a better word)on(what will be) a continuing 24 hour…
2010 Holiday Guide & Twelve Days of Christmas
copyright 2010 art of living,PrimaMedia,Inc. Here it is..just in time for the 12 Days of Christmas..our 2010 Annual Holiday Guide...filled with extra special 'foodie'products 'discovered' by our team of Editors…
Feast of the Seven Fishes ON top of Spaghetti
My favorite thing in the kitchen has become my On Top of Spaghetti Doll (part of the Madame Alexander collection). If I need any ‘pasta inspiration’ she seems to give…
Celebrating Stir Up Sunday
Oh, a wonderful pudding! Bob Cratchit said, and calmly too, that he regarded it as the greatest success achieved by Mrs. Cratchit since their marriage. Mrs. Cratchit said that…
Travel to Experience Local Flavors & Pampepato
copyright 2010, Maria Liberati/artofliving,PrimaMedia,Inc Those who travel have many a tale to tell …or something like that… as an old saying goes..not only stories of places and sights but of…
E Dolce Far Niente, & Cooking Broccoli Rabe for La Befana
Take a trip right from your own computer over to open sky to see the new design of my store with all the interesting products I have found for those…
