Ciao Italia

Mary Ann Esposito demonstrates how to prepare slow-cooked tuna steaks with tomato relish, stuffed fish with nuts and spinach, and scallop ceviche.

Tuscan bread; crostini for three toppings -- tomato/basil/garlic, chicken liver and sage, and tuna fish with capers.

Mary Ann shares recipes for torta al taglierini, a pastry noodle-topped chocolate cake, and chocolate cake with nuts.

Mary Ann gets a taste of a delicious Sunday dinner featuring risotto and pork in milk, and a chocolate cake.

Pepi Winery in Napa, California braises a beef dish in red wine; Mary Ann tries chicken stuffed with spinach and fontina cheese cooked in white wine.

Kid baker Peter Scognamillo stops by Nella Cucina to make cookies with Mary Ann; Peter makes maddalena raspberry cookies; two buttery, crisp wafers filled with raspberry jam; Mary Ann shows him how to make almond crisps.