From the Coppola family kitchen: Salads
Antipasto
"Antipasto" means, literally, "before the meal". It can be a little nibble or two, a platter of salami and cheese, or an extravaganza of a dozen or more delicious foods. It can be modest and humble or utterly luxurious.
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From the Coppola family kitchen: Salads
Italia's Tomato Ice Cube Salad
This refreshing salad is best, Italia wrote in her cookbook, on a hot summer day when you can pick tomatoes right from your own garden.
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From the Coppola family kitchen: Salads
Insalata di Rienforza Recipe An Italian Salad To Give You Strength
When Italia was a child, she didn't care for green beans and did what so many of us did as children: Snuck them to her dog. After her father discovered her subterfuge, there was a green bean dish on the table every day for two weeks.
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From the Coppola family kitchen: Salads
Beet & Red Onion Salad
When Italia was raising her family, she would have had access primarily to red beets, typically canned unless a family lived on a farm or had a garden.
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From the Coppola family kitchen: Salads
Shrimp Salad Vinaigrette
What to serve for dinner on a sweltering night, when temperatures rise above 90 degrees and it seems you may never have an appetite again? This tangy salad is ideal and so simply that you won't mind being in the kitchen for the few minutes it takes to make it.
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From the Coppola family kitchen: Salads
Tomato-Cucumber Salad with Yogurt with Diamond Sauvignon Blanc
When Italia was raising her children in the 1930’s, 40’s and 50’s, yogurt was nowhere near as ubiquitous as it is now. You often had to find it in a health food store or a Greek market, if there was one near you. Now the problem is to decide which yogurt among dozens of choices to use.