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Polpette are baby meatballs and these are stuffed with a pine nut (buttery, slightly crunchy surprise) and a currant or raisin (to keep the meat moist).

This one is especially good at summer’s end.

A pretty basic version to get you started.

This meal is another B, L, D: good for Breakfast, Lunch, or Dinner.

This dish can be made 100 ways. It’s one of the first dishes you eat as an Italian kid: macaroni with butter and ricotta cheese. Once you grow up, you add stuff in, but the base remains the same. I’ll try to limit myself and just give you my top five versions.

One rainy day I called my mom from the road. I was getting a cold and I really wanted soup for supper. She said she didn’t know what she had on hand, but she’d come up with something. This was it. (And you don’t have to be sick to enjoy it.)