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Turkey Pot Pie with Flaky Pate Brisee Pie Crust
Turkey Pot Pie
Yes I too will be serving up the traditional Thanksgiving day after turkey sandwich for lunch today, but tonight I will be serving Turkey Pot Pie, a family favorite! Who doesn’t like a Turkey Pot Pie the day after Thanksgiving for dinner? It’s a perfect way to use up leftover vegetables and turkey meat.
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Charlene Delaney is This Weeks GMG Cook!
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Charlene writes~
Tonight’s dinner another inspired by Felicia Ciaramitaro Mohan. Turn out great like all her recipes. Pasta with Ham & Peas. My biggest challenge is cutting recipe for one.
Charlene,
Thank you for the kind words! Looks like you did a fine job of cutting the recipe down for one …it looks delicious! Happy Cooking
XO
Sista
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Soft n’ Chewy Chocolate Chip Cookie Bars
Who Got The Milk?
Soft n’ Chewy Chocolate Chip Cookie Bars
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Pasta with Peas & Hot Ham
Pasta with Peas & Hot Ham
Last night’s @sistafelicia Instagram Photo
This past holiday weekend was spent embracing opportunities to experience “Real Campus Life” while touring colleges with our twins. After three days of living off fast food, Starbucks Coffee, and a few campus dining hall delights, a “real meal” was much need when we arrived home late last night. The last half hour of our road trip back home felt like ten as we discussed what meal I could pull together the fastest with ingredients I knew I had on hand at home. After rattling off several options to please everyone’s starving bellies and picky pallets, “Pasta with Peas & Hot Ham” was unanimously requested, made and on the table before the boys finished emptying bags and luggage from the truck!
Pasta with Peas & Hot Ham is fast and easy to prepare and only requires a few key ingredients. This pasta dish is traditionally served for lunch or dinner as main course or side dish, but I think it makes a perfect late night meal for the fall and winter months. Trust me you’ll have no trouble warming up or sleeping after eating a bowl of this heavenly creamy pasta dish late night! It’s one of our families most favorite “Italian Comfort Food” dishes!
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Caramel Apple Crisp Is On The Dessert Menu Tonight!
You will never look at Apple Crisp quite the same way after trying this recipe…It’s scrumptious!
Caramel Apple Crisp
A few years ago I created and posted this recipe…It’s become a fall favorite in our home…If you love caramel apples, and apple crisp, this is a must try recipe! I can’t wait to serve it for dessert tonight with a scoop of Vanilla Bean Gelato using apples from our dear friends Jeremy and Tanya Frost’s fruitful back yard Apple Tree! I have never seen a tree bearing 2 different verities of apples growing from a single tree trunk! Both the red Gala and yellow Golden Delicious tasted delicious! Jeremy held the ladder for me while I hand picked and filled 2 large bags last Saturday! The Frost’s apple tree was a magnificent sight in their yeard this year! Jeremy reported that this years harvest is the best in the past several years, and that this was the first year it beared two types of apples. Thank you for sharing your special tree with me, I’m having a great time in the kitchen whipping up our fall favorite confections and have also created a few new recipes that have been big hits!
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St. Peter Novena Day 4
Faces of the Rosary
Mary Russo and daughter Connie Orlando
The Fishermen of the Rosary
Nicolo Sanfilippo
Retired Fishing Captain of the vessel
“Enza Rosa”
Al Millefoglie
Retried Fishing Captain of the vessel
“Maria and Al”
Al Millefoglie
Current Fiesta Committee Member
Dante Holding
Future Fiesta Committee Member
Dante Holding having fun with Al Millefoglie during last night’s Novena clean up!
Novena Coffee
Caryn Linquata Ryder & Joanne Aiello
Marie Siliva, Bea Ciaramitaro, and Agnus Burnham
Novena Confections!
Ricotta Pie
Chick Pea filled Cassateddi
Italian Cookies
Sista Felicia’s Coconut Macaroon Cookies
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Banana Cupcakes with Coconut Cream Filling & Nutella Buttercream Frosting
Banana Cupcakes with Coconut Cream Filling & Nutella Buttercream Frosting
A small container of Coconut Cream Filling used in a cake inspired me to create this Cupcake for dessert a few days after Easter, during my quest to create new recipes using leftovers and ingredients from our Easter Feast…I have to say…They the Banana Cupcakes are OUTSTANDING!!!!
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Kids Easter Bunny Cookie Day at Sista Felicia’s Kitchen!
Before noon yesterday, I had received numerous requests and inquire to purchase an “Easter Bunny Cookie.” Unfortunately because of the exorbitant costs to build and permit a commercial kitchen space I do NOT currently sell Sista Felicia Foods, and simply share my dishes and confections with family and friends. Hopefully in the near future an opportunity to hurtle this giant obstacle presents, enabling my cooked foods to be sold to the general public, but for now I continue to share my passion for food, tradition, and the gathering of family and friends with the public here on GMG. I feel truly blessed to have the opportunity to and share my Step-by-Step recipes and personal experiences celebrating the three “F’s”, Family Friends & Food with the general public though my “Sista Dish” post daily on this website, created by my brother Joey.
I quickly turned yesterday’s frustrating morning of “sorry they are not for sale” into a fantastic afternoon, the moment I decide to whip up another massive batch of cookie dough,( my Italian Cookie Dough recipe is included below) and extended an open invitation “treating” the children of my family and friends with an opportunity come to my kitchen and bake a Bunny Cookie with me! Within hours an impromptu afternoon of baking Eater Bunny Cookies with all kids in and around my life was well underway! The afternoon couldn’t have been more perfect! As the word got out, three waves of kids between 3 and 6pm found their way over to my kitchen, to craft Easter Bunny Cookies, followed by daughter Amanda, Columbia tennis exchange student Laura, and mother Pat,who latter in the evening after tennis academy training and work made the 4th and final wave of bunny cookie makers ending yesterday’s baking extravaganza!
Sisters Lexi & Lola Carollo
GMG Contributor Nichole Schraft’s son Finn intently frosting his bunny!
The smiles on the kids’ faces were priceless!
Several Easter Bunny Cookies left the kitchen with missing ears and feet…Maybe GMG Contributor Alicia Cox DeWolfe’s son, Tyler DeWolfe can explain?
Thank you all for joining me last minute yesterday afternoon!
XO Sista
See video below for my Step-by-Step Italian Easter Egg Bunny Cookie Tutorial!
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The Winning # Is……
Sunday Night Sista Felicia’s Facbook followers and friends were invited to enter a chance to win an adult Easter Bunny Cookie. Below is the invite posted on FB!
“Take a guess … How many lbs. of cookie dough? Closest guess without going over shall receive a Special Bunny Cookie made by my mother Pat & Joanne Frontiero Did you know that They specialize in adult Bunny Cookies!”
Last night the winning guess was announced with the help of Gloucester’s “Crazy Carl!”
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Congratulations to Sean Nickerson for being the first to guess
90lbs.!
A big thank you to all who participated in the guessing game! Until next time…
XO Sista
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Sista Felicia’s Peeps Easter Egg Surprise
Sista Felicia’s Peeps Easter Egg Surprise
Time to start preparing sweet treats for Easter. Last year this recipe was created and posted on Sista’s Dish after being inspired by my favorite childhood Italian traditional Easter candy while shopping at Scalafini Bakery here in Gloucester. Its a fun recipe to make with kids and adults of all ages.
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Ricotta Stuffed Shells & Sunday Sauce
Ricotta Stuffed Shells & Sunday Sauce
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Celebrating St. Joseph Day with Feast Food Family & Friends
A traditional Feast of St Joseph Pasta, Italian bread, Orange and Finochio Salad, Frittata, Baked Haddock, Panelle, Fried Calamari, Smelts, Haddock, Crab Cakes, Muddica Artichoke, Seafood Casserole and St. Joseph Zeppole, were served with cordials of homemade Limonciello and Arancello. All were accompanied by many other delicious foods and desserts that were prepared by and enjoyed with family and friends on Thursday evening following our nine day nightly St. Joseph Novena.
Sista Felicia’s Homemade “St. Joseph Zeppole” filled with both traditional vanilla custard, and sweetened ricotta topped with cherries and confectioners sugar!
What’s left of 130 lbs Hand made pasta!
It was a fun day of cooking, feasting and celebrating!
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Viva Mariposa!
Yesterday while preparing bread for our Feast of ST. Joseph, my BFF Dee Noble creatively shaped a Mariposa “String Of Pearls” inspired “Viva St. Joseph Bread” for the altar when I was in the other room fixing a second batch of bread dough. She knows my love for all things Mariposa and thought our altar needed a special Mariposa touch!
This year’s Altar Breads
The big question late last night…
“How many men does it take to put the Mariposa away?”
BFF Dee, directing the men during the massive team effort to tidy the house after last nights feast!
Family friend and GMG Contributor Donna Ardizzoni was in the kitchen with us all day photographing the process of preparing dishes served at last night’s traditional St. Joseph Feast. Look for her Photo gallery tomorrow afternoon!
Donna Thank you for everything! Yesterday was so much fun! My kitchen is always filled with laughter when your in it!
James and I look forward to selecting photos from your gallery for cookbook #3!
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Orange & “Finochio” Fennel Salad
Orange & “Finochio” Fennel Salad
Preparations for “The Feast Of St. Joseph” is under way! All ingredients including fresh produce are officially in the house and ready for tonight’s ceremonial blessing by “Holy Famliy Parish” Pastor Father Jim, taken place this evening at tonight’s Novena.
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Sunday Pasta & Meatballs
Sunday Pasta cu Sugu!
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Fore my Step-by-Step Recipe, see Page #72 In my cookbook “Gifts of Gold In A Sicilian Kitchen With Sista Felicia; Harvest”
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Sista Felicia’s Signature Homemade St. Joseph Zeppole
This morning while whipping up a few batches of my famous St. Joseph Zeppole for tonight’s Novena Coffee, I decide to fix a special tray for my Comere Bridget Mathews, to serve at their families St. Joseph Feast at the Mathews family home this afternoon! After all a St. Joseph Feast is not complete without St. Joseph Zeppole Pastry. A Traditional St. Joseph Zeppole is filled with a pastry custard and or sweetened ricotta cream filling toped with either cherries, candied fruits and or small chocolate pieces, finished with a light dusting of Confectioners sugar. Today I prepared my signature St. Joseph Zeppole Pastry, in an equal assortment of pastry custard, and sweetened ricotta cream filling, accompanied with sweetened cherries!
Bridget Mathews Writes~ Melodey might have to have dessert before lunch! Thank you Felicia for the zeppole delivery!! They look delish!!!
Each year I prepared 168 St. Joseph Zeppole for our families Feast, and all 168 Zeppole were enjoyed as fast as the freshly baked pastry shells were filled. This year I’m definitely planning to make a few dozen more!
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Cappuccino Corretto con Liquore alla Nutella
Cappuccino Corretto con Liquore alla Nutella
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Preparations For The Feast Of St. Joseph At Sista’s House Is Well Underway!
Preparations For The Fest Of St. Joseph Is Well Underway!
The planning baking, cleaning, and rearrangement of the house has begun! Over the weekend while cleaning, I decided to make a batch of “Rose Pedal Infused Sugar & Rose Pedal Jelly” using rose pedals left over from Valentines Day. My clever way to recycle the fragrant roses into a delightful sweet treat of Heart Shaped Linzer Cookies for my Novena Guest, that will tie in my families “Red Rose” Altar Theme onto the dinner room table where homemade pastries and confections are shared during our traditional nightly “Novena Coffee Time” held after each Rosary!
My Rose Pedal Jelly Recipe is featured in “Gifts Of Gold In A Sicilian Kitchen With Sista Felicia; Harvest” click link below to purchase copies of “Gifts Of Gold”
Good Morning Gloucester 
