Our Favorite Italian Side Dishes for Any and Every Occasion

Explore these simple recipes that taste so much more complex than they are to make.

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Our Favorite Italian Side Dishes for Any and Every Occasion Explore these simple Italian recipes that taste so much more complex than they are to make. Enjoy a delicious creamy polenta, a fresh caprese salad, or caponata alla siciliana and pair it with your favorite Italian main. READ MORE What to Make This Week Brazilian Picanha Steak Picanha is one of the best, most inexpensive meats for grilling. See More Classic Lobster Bisque Dry sherry and lobster come together in perfect harmony. See More Make-Ahead Buttermilk Biscuits Make a few batches on a rainy weekend and freeze them for future buttery goodness. See More Introducing The Liquor.com Store Get 15% off any order of $50 or more of merchandise with code SPRUCE-EATS-VIP. See More The Spruce Eats on YouTube Hack Chat: Testing 6 Tik Tok Food Hacks Watch & Learn Things We're Reading, Loving, Pondering We love reading about the joy of simple dishes and the comfort they can impart to our lives. This wonderful New York Times story about fried eggs and white rice is just that. Lit Hub published this meditation on food photography and the way food in photographs used to look a lot more like the food readers cooked in their own kitchens. "[It] helped to reduce the frustration and fear of failure inherent in all kitchen endeavors…" This New York Times story takes us deep into the kitchen lives of the rich and their camouflaged, $15,000 refrigerators. Writer Meg Conley read that story and wrote this really great essay about the politics of kitchen design. This Grub Street interview made us reflect on media depictions of restaurant abuse (Gordon Ramsey, Hell's Kitchen, etc.) and the way they inform (and are informed by) real-life restaurant kitchens. Try Our Newest Recipes Apple Streusel Bundt Cake Sour Cream Oatmeal Cookies Spanish Lemon Cupcakes Did somebody forward you this email? Sign Up for The Spruce Eats Newsletter! Have feedback? Send us an email at contact@thespruceeats.com, subject line: Newsletter Feedback. Follow us:   You are receiving this newsletter because you subscribed to The Spruce Eats newsletter. Unsubscribe © 2021 Dotdash.com — All rights reserved. Privacy Policy. A DOTDASH BRAND 28 Liberty Street, 7th Floor, New York, NY, 10005