Featuring a light version of chicken parmigiana, steamed broccoli and egg salad, a simple steamed broccoli dish with red wine vinegar and hard boiled eggs, and limoncello tiramisu.

Recipes include warm mushroom salad, eggs poached in tomato sauce and served with grilled country bread, and brutti ma buoni, an Italian hazelnut cookie made with meringue.

Lidia prepares roasted chicken, seared chicken breast with mushrooms, paprika drumsticks with peppers.

With salted cod fritters, penne rigate in vodka sauce, and beef chuck and beer.

Butternut squash gnocchi; plum gnocchi made with toasted breadcrumbs, cinnamon and butter.

Lidia prepares sausage crostini with taleggio cheese, linguine with white clam sauce, and braised beef rolls with prosciutto, provolone and raisins.