DAY Recipe

Makes about 5 cups.

INGREDIENTS
2cups whole milk
2cups whipping cream
1cup sugar
6whole cinnamon sticks
16whole cloves, slightly crushed8large egg yolks
DIRECTIONS
Combine milk, cream, 1/2 cup sugar, cinnamon and cloves in heavy medium saucepan. Bring to boil over medium-high heat, stirring until sugar dissolves. Remove [...]

INGREDIENTS
Cake
14 1/2 ounces boxed cake mix (I used orange, but white or yellow would work fine, too)
2 teaspoons cinnamon
1 teaspoon cloves
1 teaspoon nutmeg
1 teaspoon allspice
1 teaspoon grated fresh ginger
1 cup sour cream
1/3 cup milk
1/4 cup oil
3 eggs
Icing
2 (8ounce)packages cream cheese , at room temp
1 1/2 cups powdered sugar
2 oranges
2 teaspoons cloves

DIRECTIONS

Cake:.

Sift cake mix and spices into a mixing bowl.

Add sour cream, milk, eggs and oil.

Beat at low speed until dry ingredients are incorporated.Beat at high speed for 3 minute.

Pour batter into appropriate sized pans. (Look [...]

Massimo’s Aunt Enza has played an important role in my life as a born-again Tuscan. We often dine at her home on Sunday, for a traditional family lunch, prefaced by Enza’s statement that she hasn’t prepared anything. This means that there’s nothing new on the table and that we’re in for our usual treat of [...]

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My husband’s Aunt Enza has played an important role in my life as a born-again Tuscan. We often dine at her home on Sundays for a traditional family lunch. The main course is usually what Enza calls magro, which can actually mean meatless but in Enza’s lexicon signifies merely a lean or fatless [...]

Can be prepared in 45 minutes or less, but requires additional unattended time.

Serves 2.

INGREDIENTS
2 pounds red seedless grapes, rinsed

2 cups sugar

4 cups water

1 teaspoon whole cloves

3 cinnamon sticks, halved
DIRECTIONS
Keeping grapes on stems, poke each grape several times [...]