An easy to make dish from Southern Italy with a little surprise! (No tomato!)

An easy to make dish from Southern Italy with a little surprise! (No tomato!)
In the late 1990’s my mother, Laura Aeberli, moved into a senior apartment building about 10 miles from my home. She didn’t drive so about once a week I’d either take her to the food store or pick up what she needed based on a shopping list that she gave me. One item that was…
Chicken broth is such a useful ingredient to have on hand and it can be made in so many ways. This is one of them that is quick and easy and made with very inexpensive cuts of chicken.
A hearty Italian American soup that uses Stelline – a tiny start-shaped pasta often called, “Pastina”.
It’s a funny name for a soup. Don’t you think? Let me tell you about it. I worked in a restaurant in central New Jersey called “The McAteers”. Most of the kitchen maintenance staff – the dish and pot washers and porters, as well as the dinning room bus staff were from China. These men…