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Limone & Lime

 
 

Exploring Italian cuisine
Celebrating ingredients
Creating in my cucina

 
 

When life gives lemons & limes,
make limoncello & margaritas.

 
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delicious locations for Italian food & Drinks

 
 

Beautiful Ingredients

Wonderful items to cook with or snack on

 
 

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inspiration from my cucina

 
 
 
 

“Life is a combination of magic and pasta.”

 
 

- Federico Fellini, Director

 
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View fullsize Shoutout to the best colomba makers ever!!!! 🕊️ - Grazie mille @fiasconaro_artepasticcera for your delicious treats and having fun with the flavor combinations!!! ——— #colomba #pasqua
View fullsize Let’s talk favorite gelato flavors: 1 - Pistachio 2 - Bacio/Gianduia 3 - Cioccolato Fondente 4 - Nocciola 5 - Amarena (a wild card) 6 - Fior de Latte (a way I tell quality) - …but really let’s get back to pistachio…the rea
View fullsize When I am not cooking or trying to find the best Italian food in Los Angeles, I am working with my husband on making our short film @make.me.italian this spring. It is a fun and fantastical story about an American man getting his Italian dual citizen
View fullsize This Irish soda bread is not traditional, but really delicious with currants, orange zest and caraway seeds. I don’t know the history of how there came to be so many different “Irish soda breads,” but I am so glad this recipe exists
View fullsize Guinness brownies with a good dash of sea salt were perfect for celebrating ☘️ ——— #brownies #guinness @guinness #stpatricksday ——— Created in my cucina
View fullsize Let’s talk pizza…specifically a new pizza place in Glendale that is walking distance from my place. Deliciously tasty and dangerously close. It will be hard to resist coming here all the time, which is a wonderful problem to have. Thank
View fullsize Sometimes you just need a huge serving of coziness and some bread to wipe up that extra sauce (scarpetta style ❤️). - Also, lunch trays. 😃 It’s like going to school with Kevin Arnold and Winnie Cooper. - Bonus recommendation: @lemoncocco is fa
View fullsize I made a spiced chocolate tart for my birthday this year…and I gotta say I was pretty darn proud with how this one turned out. The texture, the cardamom and chocolate marriage, the decorative top. It was a birthday meal highlight and being ab
View fullsize You know your husband is Sicilian when he gets so hungry that he pops open a jar of caponata, tears off a piece of bread and dips it into the jar like he hasn’t eaten in days. 😂 - You can take the boy out of Sicilia, but you can’t take S
View fullsize @gra_la_ makes one heck of a pizza. The sourdough crust is 👍🏼👏🏼🙌🏼 and their flavor combos are spectacular. - And yes, that is pineapple on my pizza (pickled 🍍to be exact) and it was delightful with bacon, smoked mozzarella and a little chili h
View fullsize This cranberry curd tart’s color is making my ♥️ happy. The meringue I attempted to go with it was a total shiny-too sugary-super sticky-marshmallowy fail, but 1 out of 2 new recipes working is a baking .500…which in baseball (I b
View fullsize When egg nog isn’t in stores anymore 😔, my go to drink is a bourbon milk punch. And I love to use maple 🍁 as my cocktail sweetener this time of year. So a little maple, bourbon and milk shaken over ice until frothy, pour it over a chunky ice
View fullsize This year’s Christmas cocktail was a refreshing blend of muddled pomegranate seeds, lime, citrus and winter spice infused maple syrup and vodka. Now it’s time to think up a NYE drink…🤔 ——— #cocktail #christmas &
View fullsize These homemade meatballs were meh the day I made them, but so delicious the next. The magic of time? Soaking up the sauce? Still not sure, but definitely worth the work. ——— #meatballs #polpette #pasta ——— Created
View fullsize Pumpkin pie with ALL the spices and a little splash of whisky. I crossed my fingers for minimal crackage…and it seems to have worked. - The kitchen’s aromas are filling our home and it is really feeling like the holiday season is here. &
View fullsize How I feel every single time I enter a salumeria in Italy… ——— #italianfood #salumi #formaggio #cheese #salumeria #deli #delicatessen
View fullsize Ohhhhhh I remember this delicious goodie. Brioche stuffed with gelato and whipped cream. Bravo 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 Sicily!!!! You never fail to deliver. - In California I can find delicious gelato, but brioche is incredibly difficult to find. There is a gre
View fullsize We’ve been on a cleanse for the last 2 1/2 weeks. I’ve been surprised by what I’ve missed and what I haven’t. - My biggest takeaway is that the smell of coffee in the morning is just heavenly. I feel the truth of those childho