Welcome to What's Cookin' Italian Style Cuisine! My name is Claudia Colenzo Lamascolo and I am the owner/recipe developer behind this blog.
My culinary background comes from watching my Grandmother from Rome Italy and my Mom's Region of different cooking Region make Italian foods Ameericanized.
I recreated many recipes through their teachings from what I considered the best Italian American foods, where I grew up in Utica, New York.
My recreations are childhood family favorites and local bakeries, and restaurant copycats, to the best replica of Utica's finest foods and family teachings.
Tomato Pie, Pusties, Greens and Beans, Chicken Riggies are just a few of the many staples of Utica New Yorks finest foods they are notated for.
I have won contests of many recipes developed through the years for my Italian Wedding Cookies and New York Cheesecake and recently for my Utica New York Greens.
Here is just a sample below of the wonderful traditions we carry on.
Utica is also famous for Italian Lemon Ice, Pizza Fritta, Manny's Cheesecake, Oscugnizzo Pizza, and Rosato Chocolate Cookies.
I created What's Cookin' Italian Style Cuisine in 2009 to share easy, Italian-American-style family recipes to leave behind to my kids and grandkids when I am gone.
I am a retired store manager who worked for more than 31 years for a large retailer. I am also the author of Taste of Love Cookbook, inspired by my late family members who were fabulous Italian cooks!
When I first started blogging, my main inspiration was keeping Mom's memory alive through her recipes she left behind.
Cooking those recipes brings and keeps their memories alive.
My two grown sons and family members now have all the family's traditional recipes in one place.
This blog is dedicated to the memory of Margaret Ann Fanelli Colenzo, Carmen Colenzo, and his mom, Victoria Colenzo.
For press inquiries, please email me @pegasuslegend24@gmail.com. Thank you!
