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"Chocolate and pizza mmm. Recipe from Giada."

Ingredients: milk chocolate chips, chocolate hazelnut spread...

"Giovanna, our good friend, makes wonderful cannoli shells and ricotta cream-love friends like her! Her family owned Italian restaurants for over 40 years in the Chicago area. She stores the shells in a plastic air tight container at room temperature for 2 months and freezes the filling she is not using immediately and defrosts it in the refrigerator..."

Ingredients: whole milk ricotta cheese, Crisco shortening...

"Very versatile sweet dough...use with Almond Tart recipe which is among mine posted. From a booklet given to me by Alitalia Airlines."

Ingredients: eggs, oranges, salt...

"From the Barefoot Contessa At Home cookbook. She says her friends George Germon and Johanne Killeen had it in their cookbook, Cucina Simpatica, made with apples. She decided to try her own variation with summer fruit. It's juicy and makes a sweet and perfect light summer dessert! Enjoy!"

Ingredients: fresh blueberries, ice water...

"Recipe from my mother's recipe box."

Ingredients: cooking oil, eggs, salt...

"Apples combined wtih fig jam is the unusual filling. Yellow Delicious apples are the most popular in Italy but this crostata is also great made with tart Cortland apples or a combination of both.

You can bake this in a pie plate, but I would recommend a tart pan..the presentation is so much better and you don't have to wrestle the..."

Ingredients: cream, sliced almonds...

"Italian crostatas are rustic free-form tarts that can't be ruined by poor pastry makers. If you tear the dough as you roll it, there's nothing to worry about. Just press the torn parts together and keep rolling. As long as you can get something that resembles a round onto a baking sheet, you're on your way to a fine crostata. This open-faced..."

Ingredients: distilled white vinegar, eggs...

"From Figs, Bay & Wine.blogspot.com According to the blogger, "The chocolate and black pepper crust here is based on Julia Child’s “Chocolate Dough” in Dorie Greenspan’s Baking with Julia.""

Ingredients: egg yolks, ice water...

"This is one of those recipes that every European nationality has their own version of. The Italian version (Guanti) is usually made for holidays and special occasions, as is the Polish version (Chruscik). The Chruscik recipe is my hubby's Polish grandmother's recipe. The Guanti recipe is my Italian grandmother's recipe."

Ingredients: cream cheese, eggs, milk...

"This recipe is wonderful. It's been passed through my family for generations. I mainly use them in my homemade Tiramisu, but my grandmother would make them for tea time. Whether you are making them as part of a recipe or planning on having them by themselves, these lady fingers will melt in your mouth."

Ingredients: eggs, granulated sugar...

"enough for three 8-inch tarts, two or three 9- or 10- inch tarts, depending on the thickness; one two-crust or two latticed 9- or 10- inch tarts; one 11 by 8- inch tart, with or without lattice; or then to fifteen 3 1/2- inch tartlets. Use leftover dough to make tartlets or cookies."

Ingredients: egg yolks, eggs...

"for use in other recipes"

Ingredients: oranges, zest of...

"From "The World is A Kitchen". Timing does not include chilling of the dough prior to rolling it out. "Seize the moment. Think of all those women on the 'Titanic' who waved off the dessert cart." Erma Bombeck"

Ingredients: egg yolks, eggs, raspberry jam...