Try famous local dishes in Utica like chicken riggies, Utica Greens, pusties, and more! Read about where to find this tantalizing cuisine.
Here is a quick and easy recipie you can use to make Make your own Utica Pastaciotti or PUSTIES at you home. Try it today!
This tomato pie is like a pizza except the crust is a thick, focacia dough that’s topped with tons of delicious tomato sauce and Romano cheese! How good does that sound?
Utica Greens, a beloved dish from the heart of Central New York made with fresh, leafy escarole, savory veggies, hot cherry peppers, slices of prosciutto, and parmesan cheese, with a comforting bread crumb topping!
Classic Chocolate Half Moon Cookies are tender chocolate cake-like cookies. Iced with chocolate frosting and vanilla frosting.
Classic Chocolate Half Moon Cookies are tender chocolate cake-like cookies. Iced with chocolate frosting and vanilla frosting.
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Classic Chocolate Half Moon Cookies are tender chocolate cake-like cookies. Iced with chocolate frosting and vanilla frosting.
Classic Chocolate Half Moon Cookies are tender chocolate cake-like cookies. Iced with chocolate frosting and vanilla frosting.
A favorite Pecan Sandie Cookie that is similar to the famous ones in the local supermarket but better! There are loaded with pecans, and buttery shortbread addicting cookies.
Utica, NY is known for their tomato pie, greens, black and white cookies and chicken riggies. They don’t mess around when it comes to food staples (my personal fav is tomato pie – SO go…
Ricciarelli are dense, chewy Italian almond cookies originating in Siena. They are a distant, and much less fussy, Italian cousin to the French macaron — perfect with tea or coffee!
The vanilla version of Utica's famous half moon cookies, from local corporate culture expert and motivational speaker Yvonne Conte.
These iconic cookies are an Upstate New York favorite! Now you can try making your own at home.
Classic Chocolate Half Moon Cookies are tender chocolate cake-like cookies. Iced with chocolate frosting and vanilla frosting.
Classic Chocolate Half Moon Cookies are tender chocolate cake-like cookies. Iced with chocolate frosting and vanilla frosting.
Classic Chocolate Half Moon Cookies are tender chocolate cake-like cookies. Iced with chocolate frosting and vanilla frosting.
Classic Chocolate Half Moon Cookies are tender chocolate cake-like cookies. Iced with chocolate frosting and vanilla frosting.
These are a childhood Italian cookie recipe that looks like a molded oval chocolate rock that is covered with thin icing.I grew up in the Utica New York area. This is a copycat recipe and not an original. It's as close as it gets.
If Tomate Pie is Utica, NY’s favorite entrée, then pusties are its superstar dessert. Pusties (aka, pasticciotti) are little pastry tarts filled with custard and baked in a unique fluted tin. It’s …
Many of the regional desserts included here started as traditional recipes from immigrant groups. They morphed into American treats over time.
The vanilla version of Utica's famous half moon cookies, from local corporate culture expert and motivational speaker Yvonne Conte.
My ALL TIME FAVORITE cookie recipe to make for the holidays!
Classic Chocolate Half Moon Cookies are tender chocolate cake-like cookies. Iced with chocolate frosting and vanilla frosting.
Lemon drop cookies, iced Italian cookies or anginetti, whatever your family calls them you’ll be sure to find these traditional Italian cookies at many special occasions and holiday cookie trays.
Greens Morelle, Dominique's Chesterfield Restaurant, Utica Many local foods have a place in the hearts -- and stomachs -- of Utica residents: Chicken riggies, tomato pie, Half Moon cookies, pusties (better known as pasticiotti here in Syracuse). And let's not forget Utica greens. This staple of restaurant chefs and home cooks owes its existence to Utica's Italian-American community and takes escarole, a common salad green, in a whole other direction. It's chopped, blanched, sauteed in olive oil, then tossed with prosciutto (usually), cherry peppers, Parmesan cheese and breadcrumbs and piled on a plate. Voila! That's how escarole becomes Utica Greens,...
If you've ever been to Upstate New York, you know Utica greens. If you haven't, well...you're missing out! This spicy, hearty dish is a staple of the upstate diet—and it's one of my favorite things to cook (and eat) during the colder months. They make for a great side dish but you can also enjoy them on their own as a light meal.
This is a copycat recipe from my hometown Utica New York. Manny's is a famous delicious creamy cheesecake everyone grew up within the 1960s. This recipe isn't exactly like theirs. Manny's made the best cheesecake ever. Still a terrific close recipe that everyone enjoys with these easy to follow instructions.
The vanilla version of Utica's famous half moon cookies, from local corporate culture expert and motivational speaker Yvonne Conte.
These cookies are very popular in Italian and Greek bakeries. Made with pure almond paste, they pack so much flavor and texture (think chewy and crunchy at the same time) in a little package. H…
Any small gingerbread boy cookie cutter can take on new "life" with these classic cookies. Give him some cat friends, too. The more the merrier! —Dore' Merrick Grabski, Utica, New York
This is a copycat recipe from my hometown Utica New York. Manny's is a famous delicious creamy cheesecake everyone grew up within the 1960s. This recipe isn't exactly like theirs. Manny's made the best cheesecake ever. Still a terrific close recipe that everyone enjoys with these easy to follow instructions.
The vanilla version of Utica's famous half moon cookies, from local corporate culture expert and motivational speaker Yvonne Conte.
