I used to devour cookbooks in the same way I devoured novels. Then, with every recipe in the world available op on the internet, I got away from it.

I discovered this cookbook, a young lady cooking her Italian grandmother's recipes. This is so much more than a cookbook. There are lots of backstories about Nonna and her life. I love that personal touch. What a great re-introduction into the world of “real” cookbooks,

And, at the top of each recipe is a brief description of the dish and the family connection to the dish.

There are beautiful photos of most the dishes. Mouthwatering photos!

I love Italian food, aside from the common spaghetti and lasagna. Lots and lots of choices in this cookbook. Most of the recipes look relatively easy, the ingredients should be easily found at the grocery store. But, in truth, I would love to join this family for a few Sunday Family Dinners!

I have bookmarked a few of the recipes, I cannot wait to try them out.

Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for an Advance Readers Copy.

What’s better than a Sunday meal with family? Cooking it with your Nonna! That’s what memories are made of, cooking with love for family and treasuring that time together enjoying the fruit of your labor. These recipes are easy to follow and look fabulous! My husband has highlighted the ones he wants us to try and I’m ready to invite la famiglia!

This is the first I have heard fo this author or her Nonna and I’m loving it! I have so many fond memories of cooking with my Grandma, Grammy and Great Aunt that I found this book to be a bit of a hug from them and I treasure those memories and envy Rossella and Nonna’s relationship.

5* I love, love, LOVE this book!

It's not even Sunday yet, but I'm wishing it was. This book is perfect for those days where you want to impress your family or guests with a nice Sunday dinner. From small entrees, simple, but delicious, pasta doughs, easy home made marinara sauce to eggplant balls and various soups and salads, this book has it all. Including mouth watering pictures and Rosella's grandmother, this is a book you need to have in your kitchen. You could easily browse through this book and create a wonderful menu with a few small bites, a pasta dish, side salad, freshly baked focaccia and some warm vegetables. Rounding it off with a key lime mascarpone tart or almond panna cotta and you've just made yourself host of the decade.

What I appreciate very much is that most dishes are vegetarian friendly, without having to make too much changes to the authentic recipe. We've got friends coming over this Sunday who always struggle to cook vegetarian dishes, I know what to do, thanks to this lovely book.

I have Rossella's other cookbooks and was thrilled to see Sundays with Famiglia; I absolutely love the combination of stories and simple, achievable Italian (and Italian-American) dishes. Growing up in an ethnic household, I loved learning from my Polish grandmother, and love learning more about Rossella's family and traditions. The recipes in Sundays with Famiglia include homemade pastas and sauces, baked pastas and lasagna, chicken francese, parmesan, veal piccata, eggplant parmesan, and homemade pizza, stromboli, and even foccacia barese. There are a plethora of fun retro drinks and classics like Aperol Spritz, a sambucca espresso martini, and decadent grown-up treats like creamy nutella liqueur, a cream limoncello, and Negroni, while sweet treats include spumoni cookies, a chocolate olive oil ciambella cake inspired by Dunkin Donuts, rum cake and cannoli tiramisu. Gorgeous photography and heaps of nostalgia make this a true delight to read from and cook from.

Thanks to NetGalley for an advanced copy of this book.

I envy Rosella Rago her relationship with her Nonna and more to the point, her Nonna's relationship with food. Sigh. My own grandmother punished vegetables by boiling them until they surrended in a gray hue, and only ate because it was nutritionally required.

That being said, these recipes made me happy because they are replicable! Photographs are compelling and I can be an honorary Italian cook armed with these techniques and stories. I did love the intergenerational banter and the fact that Nonna is inscrutable and always right and guards secrets zealously, fortunately, not too zealously to share with us.

After taking care to note every recipe with eggplant, I realized that my own children had the relationship with their grandmother, bonding over food, that I was not able to. Thank goodness for grandmothers who are perfect and loving and create traditions and rituals with young and eager children.

Cooking with Nonna: Sunday Dinners with La Famiglia by Rossella Rago is a beautiful cookbook filled with amazing family stories, pictures, and recipes. I made the Pork with Vinegar Peppers and man was it awesome. The vinegar made them so tasty and tender. I cannot wait to try ALL of these recipes.

***** I received an ARC from NetGalley, the publisher, and the author for my honest review. *****

There are two kinds of people in this world – those who like a cookbook to just knuckle down and give you recipes, and those who like a cookbook with life ("this is the book of life" the foreword creams), back-story, context, food porn imagery and pages of bumpf about how every dish and every ingredient has to be the authentic thing, gathered under the light of a spring new moon from only the select few mountain peaks, by virgins wearing new clothes and riding a blinded donkey back downhill to preserve the secret. You can tell I jest, I am sure – but some recipe guides go to far greater lengths than others about selling themself, and making sure their message and look is spot on and of the greatest importance. This one? This one starts with hair and make-up credits.

Either way, we start with the 'basics' of pasta doughs, and more than once we're told to use a Nonna Knife. At least the book hasn't told us about this first, so we have to foolishly google it and find that it is, er, a knife. Much more seriously, this tries to tell you how to make cavatelli and tells you nothing – NOTHING – about how to fashion them. Ditto, orecchiette, ditto chiusoni.

Thankfully things get better, and I mean a lot better. The basic sauces come next, and then antipasti – arancini, eggplant, artichoke, clams and other posh finger foods. At least here (beyond the utterly redundant two pages of waffle before each section) the recipe pages are much more concise. Yes, they have some yack about the dish, but it's pretty much straight on with the necessary. And for all my snideness I was clipping this soup recipe, saving this salad (well, I have to use a fennel bulb once in my life, surely?!) and so much more.

It's quite frustrating, then, that just as this review started with so much that is negative, so this book started with so much extraneous. Who cares what two women look like when they stare at a bit of broccoli rabe? This can tell us exactly what to do with it, using many traditional-seeming recipes from southern Italy (Bari, Palermo etc etc) clashing with the modern street food ideas of both Italy and the US. Using vodka in the tomato sauce certainly seemed more typical of the latter, it has to be said, although who to blame for the preponderance of olives I'm not sure.

This is a complete Italian cuisine guide, in that it takes us from calzone to mahoosive cakes to cocktails. Many are the dinner parties one could enjoy rehearsing the heck out of, based on these pages. Ultimately it is classy and successful, if not in the ways I would really appreciate. Is any of this freezable, I ask? "Mamma mia, you have-a the food and-a the mouth, what-a you want-a freezer for, eh? Stupido!" is the answer. The TLDR-minded review is "took against a lot of this, took on board a fair bit", and grudgingly I have to admit the benefits of this outweigh the flaws. As to what outweighs the cleavage on show in the majority of the wasteful portrait photos, I'll leave for you to find. Three and a half stelle.

Although I am not Italian, I grew up eating many of the recipes within the pages of this book. I love the stories of Nonna, her husband and family that are spread throughout. Well written, easy to follow recipes. I can't wait to try them all.

A cooking book filled with mouth watering and diverses recipes that are easy to follow and will please everyone !

“Cooking with Nonna” impressed me with the breadth of its recipes. I consider myself well-versed with Italian cuisine, but still found myself bookmarking page after page of “new to me” recipes. I was particularly pleased with the wide variety of vegetarian recipes that author, Rossella Rago, included! There were so many light recipes that will be year round favorites to go with some of the more hearty Italian classics that come to mind when we think of preparing an Italian meal. I loved the tips and stories from Nonna that Rago includes throughout the book. It really does leave the reader with the sense that these are cherished family recipes being passed from one family to another. “Cooking with Nonna” is sure to be a fan favorite and one to which home cooks everywhere will turn to again and again whenever they find themselves of a special meal to share with loved ones.

A gorgeous easy to follow and use collection of wonderful Italian recipes. My mouth was watering just reading over many of these recipes.
There are several adorable pictures of Nonna and our author along with many beautiful foodie pics of the many dishes featured in this cookbook. The author shares family memories and traditions with each recipe so you can feel like a part of the family too.
I can't wait to try and eat any of these wonderful Italian delicacies. I definitely recommend this cookbook to all my foodie friends, Italian food lovers or just those looking for some new cooking ideas. I especially love the fresh pasta section on making your own pasta.

I love the recipes in this book! Especially how to make pasta from scratch. But there is also recipes for antipasto, soups and salads, sides, meat and seafood, and sweets. The photos look amazing! I received a free digital copy of this book from NetGalley in exchange for my honest review

When I saw this, I wanted to read it purely for my own childhood memories, of my Italian grandfather who was still cooking when his parents and older brother immigrated in 1921 to New Jersey. Yeah, I’m an (under 10 percent) Italian girl from the Jersey Shore, where my Italian grandfather would cook Sunday dinner and his three daughters, their respective families would gather, talk, eat, drink his homemade wine, and watch tv after, and not cable either.

This is New York and Jersey Italian American cooking and it’s beautifully presented with photos of the food, as well as the author and her grandmother, the recipes, and her grandmother’s memories. It’s all lovely and enjoyable to read, for the stories along with the recipes.

The contents include homemade pasta and sauces, antipasto, soup and salad, sides, pasta entrees, non-pasta entrees, treats (garlic knots, focaccia, etc.), sweets, cookies, and drinks. The instructions are written out concisely.

Having grown up eating like this, I really appreciated this cookbook.



eARC kindly provided by Harper Horizon and NetGalley. Opinions shared are my own.

Love that this book is educational in addition to being a cookbook! Perfect for anyone who loves Italian food and wants to learn how to make it at home!

Yum!! Growing up in an Italian household, there’s nothing like walking into an Italian house as dinner is being made! The smells! The sounds! (Excuse me while I start drooling just thinking about it!). This book gave me that same feeling just looking through it. I love how it’s organized starting with basics and then covering all of the courses. I also appreciated that there were very basic recipes (tortellini and sausage soup) for a quick dinner while also some more involved recipes for days when you have more time to cook. The stories are wonderful -
We Italians do that when we cook - we talk and share stories. Felt like I was in the kitchen listening - loved it. You can always count on Nonna! Highly recommend getting this cookbook- great gift. Thanks to Harper Horizon for the advanced copy.

Thank you Netgalley and Harper Horizon for provided my copy.

Rosella Rago and her Nonna take us to the magical of traditional Italian dishes sprinkles with modern touch. I love how warm the stories in each section. They provide alot recipes, I wish they provide individual picture for each recipe to give us a visualization. I appreciate every tips and suggestions they share to enrich our experience when practicing one or many from this home cooking collection.

Loaded with Italian recipes.

Ross Ella Rago shares stories and recipes that she grew up cooking with her Nonna. There are over 100 recipes included in the book, and the photos are well done even though there are not photos for every recipe. Every chapter has a story about that section, and each recipe has tips or a short comment about the recipe.

For my review, I made the Vegetable Ragu. This was a quick and easy side (soup) that was quite delicious. The instructions were quite simple and easy to follow. I served it with a simple cheese bread. and it was a big hit with my Italian husband.

Table of Contents is as follows:

Forward
Introduction
Chapter 1: Back to Basics which includes recipes for Egg Pasta Dough and Easy Meat Sauce
Chapter 2: Antipasto which includes recipes for Artichokes Gratinati and Baked Clams.
Chapter 3: Soups and Salad which includes recipes for Roasted Tomato Soup with Burrata and Tortellini Soup with Sausage and Spinach
Chapter 4: On the Side which includes recipes for Zucchini Sticks and Vegetable Giambotta
Chapter 5: Pasta al Forno, Lasagna, and Primi which includes recipes for Meat and Cheese Lasagna and Stuffed Shells with Eggplant and Mozzarella
Chapter 6: Secondi and Parm:which includes recipes for Pork with Vinegar Peppers and Classic Meatballs
Chapter 7: From the Oven with Amore which includes recipes for Salami and Cheese Stuffed Calzones and Savory Olive Biscotti
Chapter 8: LaDolce Vita: Sweets which includes recipes for Rum Cake and Peach and Amaretti Cake
Chapter 9: That the Way the Biscotti Crumbles which includes recipes for Italian Meatball Cookies and Nutella Chip Cookies
Chapter 10: Who Needs a Drink which includes recipes for Blood Orange Sangria and Amaretto Old-Fashioned
Acknowledgment
Index
About the Author

I plan on purchasing this cookbook. There are so many recipes I want to try. I highly recommend if you like Italian cooking and the stories behind the food.

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Love this cookbook so many delicious recipes warm family traditions Sunday supper.I.can’t wait to make these recipes for my family.#netgalley #cooking with nonna

So much love, great recipes I want to try most of them, and not just typical Italian, this will make you use your favourite vegetables in a new way.

This was a really nice cookbook. Honestly there wasn't anything super unique in it, but each recipe was well-presented and easy to follow. There are a lot of great stand-by Italian recipes as well as some less familiar recipes. The personal anecdotes along the way added to the overall appeal of the book. This book would be great for novices and seasoned pros alike.