Italy

Neapolitan pizza is the most basic of all versions. Pizza does not come simpler than this. Make first traditional pizza dough or get a prepared one. Now, onto the pizza!

Tiramisu, the simple way. Naturally, it's best to use the freshest possible ladyfingers - a small cake known in Italy as savoiardi. It's always possible to make them, but the preparation is for the advanced only.

Though far from the most exotic pasta recipe, spaghetti alla carbonara - more or less literally translated as 'spaghetti as that of the charcoal maker' - is a great mid-way step between that and just plain marinara. Essentially spaghetti with eggs and bacon, it is simple to make and delightful to eat.

Pasta and meatballs is one of the Italian dishes most loved in the North American East coast. Though northern Italians like meatballs very much, probably not as much as North Americans do. To serve spaghetti with meatballs, cook the spaghetti as the package instructions say. Arrange them on a hot platter. Pour the tomato and meatball sauce over them.

Panettone is a sweet bread with with candied fruit and traditionally eaten by Christmas and New year. It is typical from the Milan region but also eaten in many other countries where Italian

Serve Italian sausage meatballs with your favorite pasta. It feels Italians have the thousand and one flavors for sausage meat, try different ones and you will be surprised. Fennel flavored sausage is one of our favorites.