domenicacooks
@domenicacooks.bsky.social
Author of Italian cookbooks. ITALIAN COOKIES out in April 2026! Recipe creator🍝Occasional small-group culinary tours in 🇮🇹 Weekly newsletter Buona Domenica, sharing well-tested Italian recipes & stories. https://buonadomenica.substack.com
Filtering the Nocino that we started in June and using the spent green (now black!) walnuts to make Nociato, a sort of fortified wine/vermouth. One version with red wine, one with white. Delicious and refreshing served chilled. Recipe for Nocino is linked: buonadomenica.substack.com/p/nocino-wal...
Highly recommend a subscription to Jack’s newsletter, in which he shares delicious, meticulously tested vegan recipe. Lots of inspiration to be found!
Jack McNulty@jack-mcn.bsky.social · 2w agoPaid annual subscriptions to VeganWeekly are currently only $25. If you can, I would be incredibly grateful for your financial support...and of course, even if you can’t afford it, I also welcome all free subscriptions. Use this link to access the summer sale: veganweekly.substack.com/summer26
This week’s Buona Domenica features a lovely jam-filled buckwheat hazelnut cake from Alto Adige. The recipe comes from Martin Sorge’s new book GREAT BAKES: Classic Modern Recipes from the Midwest ✨ buonadomenica.substack.com/p/slow-downa...
It’s hot, but not too hot to make pasta. This week’s newsletter features a triangular shaped cornmeal pasta from Abruzzo called patellette. I’ve given it a summery sauce of cherry tomatoes, pancetta, and sweet corn. Graphic art by Daniela Bracco ✨ buonadomenica.substack.com/p/abruzzo-in...
If mint is taking over your garden, use it to make a batch of fresh mint syrup. Then use that to make Gino’s Mint Chocolate Chip Cake. A refreshing summer dessert, in this week’s Buona Domenica: buonadomenica.substack.com/p/mint-condi...
Ode to Spaghetti 🍝 With a recipe for glossy, saucy shrimp spaghetti 🦐🍝 ART by Daniela Bracco 💛🩵💜🤎 buonadomenica.substack.com/p/ode-to-spa...
I just had to toss an entire honeydew melon in the bin. Sliced into it and it was perfectly ripe and juicy. Took a bite: no flavor. None. I even had the farmer choose it for me yesterday. Why is it so hard to find good melon in Virginia? 😭
✨MENÙ ESTIVO✨ Three midsummer menus and wines to go with them in this week’s BUONA DOMENICA 🇮🇹 (Scroll for pics of some of the featured dishes) Art by @daniela.bracc 💙 buonadomenica.substack.com/p/luglio-thr...
Two savory summer sauces to beat the heat and revive a wilting appetite: Ligurian-style herb sauce with olives and walnuts, and salsa tonnata spiked with a little Dijon mustard: buonadomenica.substack.com/p/two-savory...
HOMEMADE NOCINO! ‘Green’ walnut liqueur with intriguing lore to accompany it. Recipe and story in this week’s Buona Domenica. With art by Daniela Bracco ✨ buonadomenica.substack.com/p/homemade-n...
In this week’s Buona Domenica: a cookie story from Scanno, a mountain town in Abruzzo. Meet Ilario, who owns what might be Italy’s smallest cookie bakery. His freshly baked amaretti, moretti, mostaccioli and other rustic cookies are worth the trip: buonadomenica.substack.com/p/the-biker-...
Sourdough gochujang taralli. Recipe assist from the Italian cookie queen, @domenicacooks.bsky.social.
A piquant appetizer to spark your appetite for summer: ciliegine mozzarella with roasted cherry tomatoes and olives 🇮🇹 Art by Daniela Bracco buonadomenica.substack.com/p/summers-he...
If you are in/around Portland, ME, here are the cookies we’ll be tasting at tomorrow’s ITALIAN COOKIES event at Print Bookstore. Join us! printbookstore.com/event/2026-0...
This week’s Buona Domenica is graced with a hand-drawn illustration by Daniela Bracco, evoking spring ✨ Fennel pollen pistachio cake is the featured recipe: buonadomenica.substack.com/p/a-spring-c...
This week’s Buona Domenica is graced with a hand-drawn illustration by Daniela Bracco, evoking spring ✨ Fennel pollen pistachio cake is the featured recipe: buonadomenica.substack.com/p/a-spring-c...
DIPPING INTO MOLISE: a look at an overlooked and underrated region of Italy, with a recipe for U Funnateglie ~ a hearty dish of sausage, peppers & eggs buonadomenica.substack.com/p/dipping-in...
Chewy amaretti always hit the spot 👌
Splendid Table@splendidtable.org · 4mo ago"Use the freshest almonds you can find to give these cookies their due," @domenicacooks.bsky.social writes in her new cookbook. 🍪 Get Domenica's full recipe for Sardinian Amaretti — from ITALIAN COOKIES: AUTHENTIC RECIPES AND SWEET STORIES FROM EVERY REGION — here: bit.ly/3RyniAl
Recipe for polpette in Swiss chard tomato sauce in this week’s Buona Domenica. Plus I’m giving away 2 ✌️ copies of ITALIAN COOKIES buonadomenica.substack.com/p/maggio-hel...
For chilly spring evenings: polpette in Swiss chard-tomato sauce. Recipe coming in tomorrow’s Buona Domenica 🇮🇹 Subscribe here: buonadomenica.substack.com
"Also known as torta sbrisolona, the name of this cookie roughly translates to 'crumbly cake,'" @domenicacooks.bsky.social writes in her new cookbook, ITALIAN COOKIES. "It was eaten as a snack to revive [farmers] after a long morning of work." Get the full recipe: bit.ly/3OOWg6Y
MORE VEGETABLES, PLEASE In this week’s BUONA DOMENICA, Im taking a break from Italian cookie content to share two recipes from Giulia Scarpaleggia’s new book, Vegetables the Italian Way 🇮🇹 buonadomenica.substack.com/p/more-veget...
Grab a mixing bowl and a wooden spoon and preheat your oven. ITALIAN COOKIES is out today! I’m hitting the road. Come say hi, get a book signed and eat Italian cookies! 🇮🇹🍪🌟 More 👇 buonadomenica.substack.com/p/italian-co...
Art, Conflict & Cookies. This week’s Buona Domenica features a Q & A with Daniela Bracco, whose graphic art graces my weekly newsletter as well as the pages of ITALIAN COOKIES. Plus a recipe for a classic wine cookie that both Daniela and I love. buonadomenica.substack.com/p/art-confli...
Recipe for Frollini al Farro, from Italian Cookies. Perfect for dipping in your morning coffee or tea. Thanks to @wordloaf.org for sharing it.
Andrew Janjigian@wordloaf.org · 5mo agoThere's even a grainy recipe excerpt, from Domenica's 'Italian Cookies'
I've formalized my baking book roundups, recommendations, and excerpts into what I am calling the 'Wordloaf Book Fold', starting with today's post, which covers new and highly recommended books from Maureen Abood, Tanya Bush, Tara Jensen, Ifrah Ahmed, Marie Frank, and @domenicacooks.bsky.social.
Introducing The Wordloaf Book Fold
On baking books
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