Ciao Italia

Slow-cooked tuna steaks with tomato relish; stuffed fish with nuts and spinach; scallop ceviche.

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

Torta al taglierini, a pastry noodle-topped chocolate cake; chocolate cake with nuts.

Sunday dinner featuring risotto and pork in milk; chocolate cake.

Pepi Winery in Napa, Calif.; braised beef dish in red wine; chicken stuffed with spinach and fontina cheese cooked in white wine.

Maddalena raspberry cookies -- two buttery wafers filled with raspberry jam; almond crisps.