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Roman-Style Chicken with Peppers

Pollo alla Romana con i Peperoni: Chicken Roman-Style with red and yellow peppers in a sweet tomato sauce punctuated by crispy prosciutto bits is a simple one-pan recipe that is ready in about 30 minutes. I prefer boneless, skinless chicken breast but you can use …

Belly-Button Ricotta Gnocchi in a Quick Tomato-Basil Sauce

I was hungry and wanted something I could whip together in less than an hour. I was thinking about gnocchi and decided to make ricotta gnocchi instead of potato gnocchi that take longer. Just make sure you drain excess liquid from the ricotta in …

Sautéed Escarole with White Tuscan Beans + Uccelletto

The last episode of Lunch with Gianni was a special episode. After the privileged opportunity to cook with expensive winter black truffles for which I am grateful, I’m back in the kitchen cooking what I describe as my “cucina povera”, my “cucina rustica”, the rustic …

Fettuccine with Black Truffle Sauce

Last call for black winter truffles. If you live in San Francisco you can buy them at North Beach’s Il Cilentano on Columbus. They’re also still available from online purveyors. Don’t miss out on enjoying these “Diamonds of the Kitchen.” Treat yourself, maybe even make …

Caper & Butter Petrale Sole & Roasted Fennel

Hey Gianni’s back in the kitchen. As my fans told us during our Meet & Eat YouTube livestream, enough talking. Get back in the kitchen. We took their advice. We’re still in lock-down here. Jeff, Gwen and I cannot be together to produce episodes. That …

Spaghetti al Limone

We took the fast hydrofoil from Napoli for a quick ride to the island of Ischia. We’d never been before and were determined to check out this gem in the middle of the Bay of Napoli. It was a hot summer day so we hugged …

Meet & Eat: A Gianni’s North Beach Livestream Extravaganza

Turns out if you start to type “Gianni North Beach” into Google, it autocompletes with “Gianni North Beach Dead.” Hey, wait a minute! Not true, last time I checked. Sure, we went away for about 3 and a half years. And yes, I’ve been laying …

Chicken with a Garlic, Anchovy, Caper and Lemon Sauce

I’m in Ortigia, a small island off the coast of Siracusa, Sicily. A swordfish dish I ate the first night here in local restaurant included the ingredients in this dish. Today we decided to eat in the apartment we rented. So I bought everything I …

Manicotti Kitchen Invasion

Only in America! You Can’t Get These Manicotti in Italy I’ve been eating at North Beach’s da Flora for over two decades and never had a bad meal there. When my friends and I want to share a leisurely family-style 4-course meal we always head …

My Family Christmas Menu Suggestions

Some say that the most important meal this season is the Christmas Eve fish dinner. I’m doing the Neapolitan-inspired Feast of Seven Fishes, La Festa dei Sette Pesci. But you gotta eat after everyone is done opening all their presents Christmas day, right? When I’m …

Christmas Eve Feast of 7 Fish Recipe Roundup

I’ll be with family and friends for Christmas. Our Neapolitan family tradition is to prepare a 7-fish Christmas Eve dinner, La Festa dei Sette Pesci. Seven fish unless I’m with the Sicilian branch of the family, then it’s 13! I hope you will be with …

WooHoo! 1,000,000 YouTube Views

Thanks to all of you who have visited my channel and blog. We just passed one million YouTube views! I love cooking my favorite dishes that I learned from my immigrant Mom & Dad growing up in northern Jersey. And I love cooking at home …

Make A Perfect Antipasti Platter

An antipasti platter is your culinary canvas. Lay out a couple of your favorite Italian cheeses and salumi (cured meats) that pair well together. Add some veggies for color. Olives maybe? And what about some taralli scattered all around? A feast for the eyes but …

Cook and Eat a Whole Pig With Gianni

We’re doing a special Christmas episode over here in Gianni-land ™ and we want you to be part of it! Remember my classic recipe for porchetta? I made it the way I ate it growing up: Italian-American style! But I got flamed by a bunch of Italian Italians …