This dressing is extremely versatile: one minute she’s fulfilling your Italian pizza shop salad dreams, and the next she’s packing your carry-on full of kalamata olives, cucumbers, and feta to whisk you away to Greece! She’s courting you, and we love that.
This recipe features 3 simple ingredients, but it will blow you away every time. Follow the step-by-step instructions here.
The recipe you need to make any fruit crisp recipe your heart desires this summer. Choose your fruit and let's go!
Check out these three Italian American recipes by Dan "Grossy" Pelosi from his highly-anticipated new cookbook "Let's Eat: 101 Recipes to Fill Your Heart and Home."
“My worst nightmare is a potluck dinner”
My dad always calls this dish “pasta fongool,” which makes me laugh every time. Pasta e Fagioli is an Italian classic and considered an incredibly powerful comfort food by many. Hopefully you’ll agree after making and eating it yourself! Make it step-by-step with me below! 1. Heat two tablespoons of olive oil in a pot. […]
Let's Eat by Dan Pelosi Signed Cookbook Larger-than-life personality Dan Pelosi offers up a warm hug of home cooking, sharing both comfort food and connection with 101 of his nearest and dearest Italian American recipes. Some have been passed down through his family, and others have been cooked up from scratch—but all are made with love and accompanied by fun, meaningful stories to warm your heart while filling your belly. In addition to the staple chapters like Eggs, Appetizers, Pasta, Meat & Fish, and Sweets, you'll also find deep dives on Italian food recipes like Dough and Marinara, presented with hero recipes you can spin into all kinds of deliciousness. (Don't worry, his viral "Vodka Sawce" is here...) You'll also get Grossy's Guides to cooking, cleaning, organizing, all the tips and tricks you need to keep your kitchen as you want it. Accessible for the everyday cook, and tasty to boot, these recipes are meant to be shared with the ones you love. (And Dan's autograph gives it that extra personal touch, right?) So, set the table, grab a chair, roll up your sleeves... let's eat! What You Get Let's Eat hardcover cookbook, signed by Dan Pelosi 288 pages Published by Union Square & Co. ISBN 978-1454946397 Good to Know Dan Pelosi is the "Italian meatball making meatballs" behind GrossyPelosi, the Instagram favorite for all things comfort and food. He hosts The Secret Sauce for Food52 and appears regularly on Good Morning America. Dan lives in Brooklyn, but you can find him online at @grossypelosi. In October 2022, he interviewed Martha Stewart at the Infatuation's EEEEEATSCON, he's been profiled and quoted in articles for The New York Times, Curbed, New York Magazine, and Bloomberg. Pelosi has a show in the works with a popular streaming service, and is also well-connected with prominent cookbook authors.
Mama Mia! This recipe is just so near and dear to my heart, my personal version of marinara. Follow along with step-by-step instructions.
Somehow, there’s always a pot of escarole and beans on the stovetop at Bimpy’s house. This is likely because it was a favorite of my dear Uncle Phil who lived with Bimpy. Uncle Phil passed away unexpectedly last year, and now when I miss him (which is often), I make escarole and beans in his […]
Check out these three Italian American recipes by Dan "Grossy" Pelosi from his highly-anticipated new cookbook "Let's Eat: 101 Recipes to Fill Your Heart and Home."
In an excerpt from Dan Pelosi's new book, Let's Eat, his mom gives her best cleaning advice ever, including a low-life oven cleaning idea.
Makes 2 loaves My sister Diana is the queen of the quick bread. She brings them to every gathering, always slicing and serving them up with a smile. A few other things about Diana: She is a mother of 3, has her PhD from an Ivy League university and is a professor in the medical […]
Check out these three Italian American recipes by Dan "Grossy" Pelosi from his highly-anticipated new cookbook "Let's Eat: 101 Recipes to Fill Your Heart and Home."
Hot Tip: All you have to do to get my full attention is say “family recipe.” It took me way too long to make this family recipe that my dear friend, Liz Perskie, told me about many times and, once I did, I pulled the “Why didn’t I make this sooner?!” card. In Liz’s family, “celebration […]
"I have to laugh when stylists and designers talk about a single pop of color."
This sweet bread is just such a stunner! She’s perfectly thicc, has curves for days, and proudly wears a coat of many colors! She is a queen. This is a dense, cake-like bread that my Mom made during my childhood around Easter, but don’t get distracted by that. This rainbow bread is truly holiday-agnostic and […]
As an Italian American, eating eggplant parmesan is as natural and frequent as breathing. This classic Italian dish might as well flow out of our sink faucets—that’s how much consumption occurs. This version, like many of my recipes, is my take, based on all the recipes I grew up eating, most of which called for […]
The Feast of the Seven Fishes is famously part of the Italian-American Christmas Eve celebration. Please note: The celebration can contain more than seven fishes, but definitely not less. It can be something that is obsessed over—the making of seven different dishes for each of the seven fishes. While there are always seven fishes, there […]
Dan Pelosi wrote a cookbook! Let's Eat: 101 Recipes to Fill Your Heart and Home is a warm hug of home cooking, sharing both comfort and connection with 101 of my nearest and dearest Italian-American recipes. Get it here.
The Pelosi Pasta Salad has been a long-standing tradition in my family. Bring this exceptional salad into your life with step-by-step instructions.
Mama Mia! This recipe is just so near and dear to my heart, my personal version of marinara. Follow along with step-by-step instructions.
One of the great joys of summer is grilling outdoors. One of the great disappointments of summer is realizing you have no idea how to grill outdoors. Don’t worry, honey, that’s why I am here! Let’s talk, grill to grill, about all the ways you can host a classic hamburger and hot dog hang sesh […]
If you have been following me close enough, you will know that I have been playing with this recipe for rabanadas for a long, long time. I am pleased to announce that it is finally here…and it’s perfect?! A huge thanks goes out to my Aunt Chris, who has been making these for me my […]
Mama Mia! This recipe is just so near and dear to my heart, my personal version of marinara. Follow along with step-by-step instructions.
Whether you say vodka sawce or vodka sauce, this is the sawce recipe that you need. Follow along with step-by-step instructions.
Serves 6-8 people Aunt Janet brings her famous carrots to every big family meal, but Thanksgiving dinner is where they really shine. My favorite part of Thanksgiving is the way the flavors combine together on an overly stuffed plate. If you take a bite of one thing, you take a bite of everything. Aunt Janet’s […]
Honey, you are gonna be nuts about this recipe! One of the most vivid childhood memories I have is trying to get my fingers to not be constantly sticky from eating these at every family event, especially during the holidays. Let me tell you, these do not mix well with wrapping paper, so proceed with […]
Grossy’s Vodka Sawce has made its way around the internet several times since March 2020 when I first posted the recipe on my instagram. It’s success has truly blown my mind and I am so honored that a single person has made it, much less thousands of people. I will never get over it! Two […]
There is nothing better than the perfect twirl of al dente spaghetti wrapping around your fork. Pair it with my new easy peasy take on Puttanesca and prepare yourself for a spaghetti experience that’s bold, bright and has the perfect bite.
This recipe is adapted from a now-shuttered culinary school in San Francisco called Tante Marie. My good friend Chris attended the school when we were in our twenties and living in the city by the bay. Chris came home from school one day a little teary-eyed and raved to me about these brownies. We were […]
If you’re going to do it the classic way, Chicken Parm is traditionally made as a big casserole with layers of fried crispy chicken, marinara sauce, and cheeses all baked together until they are a melty saucy cheesy delight. That’s cool and all but PERSONALLY, I like my chicken to stay as crisp as possible, […]
Whether you say vodka sawce or vodka sauce, this is the sawce recipe that you need. Follow along with step-by-step instructions.
The word “stracciatella” has three distinct meanings in Italian. The most popular one, perhaps, is a creamy gelato with ribbons of dark chocolate dancing in every scoop. The second is another popular option: cheese. Scraps of mozzarella are mixed with cream, forming what can be most commonly found on the inside of a ball of […]
“Late Summer” is just as much a time of year as it is a state of mind, and it’s one of my favorite places to be. This recipe is a celebration of end-of-summer tomato abundance flirting with fall-forward warming spices. In other words, it’s a staple on my dinner table in September and early October. […]
Whether you say vodka sawce or vodka sauce, this is the sawce recipe that you need. Follow along with step-by-step instructions.
The Pelosi Pasta Salad has been a long-standing tradition in my family. Bring this exceptional salad into your life with step-by-step instructions.
This classic dish is traditionally known as Pasta alla Norma, which was named after the Bellini opera “Norma.” A pasta named after an opera? There’s truly nothing gayer, and we LOVE IT! Norma is traditionally made by frying eggplant in olive oil and topping it with Ricotta Salata, a milky cheese with just a hint […]
Giambotta is a classic Italian vegetable stew. It’s a celebration of the end-of-season summer bounty of the garden, and welcomes any and all vegetables that you can get your hands on. My grandfather Bimpy had a massive garden in his yard, and I spent every summer of my childhood eating giambotta—it was always served with […]
You know by now how much I love pastina. And you probably also know that pastina is a bit hard to come by these days, but rest assured it’s still in production! My friends at Barilla are making it and you can find it online, if not in your local store. Of course, this recipe […]
Whether you say vodka sawce or vodka sauce, this is the sawce recipe that you need. Follow along with step-by-step instructions.
“Late Summer” is just as much a time of year as it is a state of mind, and it’s one of my favorite places to be. This recipe is a celebration of end-of-summer tomato abundance flirting with fall-forward warming spices. In other words, it’s a staple on my dinner table in September and early October. […]
In Italian, Cacio e Pepe translates to “cheese and pepper,” and as far as accurate recipe names go, this one nails it. Cheese and pepper are traditionally the only ingredients in this classic Roman dish. Combined with spaghetti, they create a famously creamy, cheesy, and peppery delight. For such a seemingly simple dish, it can […]
Large dollops of ricotta cheese plopped on top of Grossy’s Vodka Sawced pasta and broiled on high until devilishly crisp and creamy. THIS is Cheesy Baked Vodka Sawce. Please prepare my eulogy, I am posting from the other side… Make It Step By Step With Me: 1. We start this journey at the of Grossy’s […]
