Cook Italian Tonight · Top 10 Italian Recipes You Can Make at Home (Cook - Tonight)

With the Cook - Tonight series, we simplify your life and give new life to your pocket book. We use only the top 10 recipes with simple easy-to-follow instructions for each country. You say, “But, only 10 recipes?” This is the amazing thing about Italian food. By simply changing the meat and sauce, you can create an almost endless variety of different delicious meals.

This Italian selection will include two make ahead cold salads, two soups, a veggie dish, a luscious Italian dessert, and your choice of four fantastic Italian classics for the main course.--all true Italian in taste and quality. These four dishes are legion and few other dishes in the world compare. The odds are that one or even four of these robust delights are already your favorites. If not they will become your favorite when you taste the real Italian taste. It’s like being at your favorite restaurant, only without the cost.

You can make the choice easier by creating two or three mouth watering main dishes per meal, like they do in Italy. I like to always have a side of Spaghetti Bolognese with my main dish. For me, this is Italian.

Now you can enjoy your favorite Italian dinners at home. You are getting the true, rich Italian taste without going to a restaurant, and think of the money you save.

BTW... I am Tag Powell. I am neither Italian nor a chef. I do, however, love to eat Italian and cook Italian food.

Good fortune has allowed me to travel the world and enjoy amazing dishes from almost every country. Upon returning home, I tried to duplicate these gastronomical wonders. Sometimes I got that authentic taste and other times it took a bit of experimenting. After a few years, I got good at it, and friends always wanted the recipes. I heard that “Why don't you write a cookbook” line. This is my 9th cookbook.

Often when traveling in a foreign country for several weeks I get to a point of boredom with that country’s mystery food. I find I must ground myself in a known quantity. I have found two things that work: a Pepsi Float from Pizza Hut (yes, there is one wherever you go) and Spaghetti Bolognese; it is a miracle, but almost any country will have Spaghetti Bolognese on the menu. The real wonder is that it tastes the same almost anywhere you go. The only difference in taste comes from the flavor of the meat that is used.