Today is my 7th Blogiversary! I can’t believe it’s been seven years since I published my first post way back on August 15, 2007. Time sure flies when you’re having fun and I have to admit, I’m still having fun so I’m going to stick around for a while!
I want to thank all my fellow bloggers for all their support as well as all my loyal readers and subscribers, I appreciate each and every one of your comments and personal emails.
Thank you for those who “like” Proud Italian Cook on Facebook, I’m very close to 11,000 which is mind blowing to me. Thank you to all those who have “pinned” any of my recipes on Pinterest, many of them have been pinned over and over again, and speaking of Pinterest, I just found out the other day that Ivanka Trump pinned my grilled artichokes on her entertainment board, it always amazes me because you just never know who’s looking at your photos!
I recently got on Instagram after my daughters urging and I’m so glad I did because I’m really loving it even though I’m still learning how to do hashtags and everything else, so please feel free to follow me if you want to see what I’m up to on a daily basis.
Thank you to my family and close friends for all your support and especially my husband Tony, my number one fan!
I’m Marie, a wife, mother, mother-in-law, and gramma of two beautiful girls. My passion is food, clear and simple but especially Italian food, hence the name of my blog, Proud Italian Cook. I want you to feel right at home here so grab a cup of coffee, I’ll get the pastries, take a look around and enjoy your visit! {
All your recipes look so beautiful because you use so many fresh ingredients. I just love it.
Happy 7th from your biggest fan/friend! I was at the beach when this post aired, so I missed the celebration!
Congrats! xo
Congratulations! I love your recipes – always delicious! Thank you for all the time and dedication you’ve shared with us.
Happy 7th Anniversary, Proud Italian Cook! I like the recipes especially the healthy ones like the zucchini instead of pasta one. Keep posting, and I’ll read and try. Ciao!
Congratulations on your anniversary Marie !Thanks for sharing your tasty and delicious recipes! A hug from Italy !
Love your blog – the most beautiful food photograpy ever! And wonderful dishes – I have never made one that disappointed. Congratulations and thanks for sharing with us!
Happy 7th Anniversary! Love your recipes! And your pictures always make me hungry! You inspire me to try new recipes and challenge my Italian husband!
Happy 7th Anniversary. Thank you for inspiring me to become a better cook!
I have tried so many of your recioes our favorite being the chicken meatloaf! Thank you for your enthusiasm about food! It is catching! it’s obvious how much love you put into each dish for your family! Keep on cook in’ TARA
Congratulations on your blogiversary! I just love to see what you are cooking up. Your photos are gorgeous and so much of what you cook and talk about reminds me of my childhood and my family, growing up Italian in the Chicago area. Thank you for all of your wonderful recipes!
I love your blog! Congratulations on Seven Years! That is quite an achievement.
Congrats Marie! Here’s to seven more years of success!!!
Yay, congratulations! Love your website, love your recipes, love it all!
I just found your blog about a year ago and am happy every time I see your newsletter in my inbox! Your photos are beautiful, and the recipes I’ve tried have been scumptious. Thank you!
Happy Anniversary! Love your recipes and blog!
Thanks and keep on blogging!
Happy, happy anniversary! I am still making the gnocci recipe you kindly sent to me about three years ago … the only gnocci I ever made that doesn’t come apart when it hits the water! Again, Happy Anniversary, and please keep blogging!!!
Congratulations Marie! I did serve the tomato and rice tart at the bridal shower and everyone loved it! Thank you so much for your blog I so look forward to reading it.
Congratulations and Happy Anniversary! I have loved everything I’ve tried…and so do enjoy reading your blog.
Please continue and keep up us informed….I was at Eataly this past Saturday and really was on overload.
I really enjoy your blog. Just made your pesto recipe, as I too have an abundance of basil from the garden. It was delicious served with roasted cherry tomatoes.
I married an Italian man and have to TRY to compete with his mothers/nana’s/ and papap’s cooking! Your blog has been extremely helpful! I love the way you use so many fresh vegetables, herbs and fresh ingredients! I made your homemade ravioli with my husband for a dinner party and we got AMAZING reviews! Thank you!
Your blog was the greatest discovery! I’ve tried so many recipes, all fantastic, but the stuffed eggplant is our very favorite! Here’s to many more years!
Happy Blogiversary! All of your recipes always look great! Everything I have mad has been wonderful. Thank you for the giveaway.
Your posts always make me hungry! 🙂
Hello Marie,
I have been following your blog, facebook and pinterest for about 5 years now. We like all things alike. LOL
I love Eataly as well as frequent Standard Market in Westmont that I know you are familiar with. Your recipes are always easy to make which is what I love about your site.
Congratulations on your 7 yrs!
Hi Marie – Congratulations! Always smile when I see I have an email from you waiting in my inbox. I know it will have beautiful photos of fabulous food with easy to follow recipes. Thanks for sharing what you do, keep up the good work!
Laurie
Happy Blogiversery, Marie! Love your recipes!
Congradulations on the anniversary! Just keep posting all those lovely photos of your colorful Italian dishes!
LOVe your website! I’ve been following you for two years now..my ‘go-to salad since you posted it has been the multicolored carrot ribbon salad..I’ve made it for every bbq and dinner party we’ve had this summer and I always get compliments! It’s beautiful and tastes so good. Happy Anniversary!
OMG Marie – How time flies! I feel like I’ve known you from the start, although I think I came on board after you were writing for a year or so. Now you have 11,000 Facebook fans!! And Ivanka Trump too? Well, I’m not surprised. You have what it takes to keep us coming back again and again – delicious and creative recipes and absolutely beautiful photos. I wish you cent’anni, amica mia. I’m proud to call you “friend.”
I would love to see a lot of delicious, but healthy Italian recipes for my guy to enjoy 🙂
Seriously I don’t know where to begin….I’ve tried dozens upon dozens of your recipes and love the all. One of my favorites recently was the pesto stuffed scallops. They were delicious….I have basil upon basil and love pesto so was so excited to try the recipe when I saw it. Certainly everything I had hoped….pretty, delicious, and easy:). Thanks! Best wishes
Congrats! I’ve been following for a long time and always find something inspiring to make – much to the delight of friends and hubby.
Happy #7! Thank you for sharing and inspiring us all! Best wishes !
Congrats Marie on your anniversary!! You’re one of a very select food blogs I regularly read! Xo ” very first fan who recognized you!! ” 😉
Congrats on your SEVEN YEARS anniversary! And a huge thank you for opening up my mind to Italian food. Although my grandmother was from Northern Italy, I still considered Italian food to be gloppy and pretty bad lasagna and spaghetti with store-bought pasta sauce (boo!), and ground beef. In other words- GAH! Because of Proud Italian Cook, Italian food at my house is now fresh, interesting and DELICIOUS. So THANK YOU! And please keep sharing!
Hi. BRILLIANT!! You make a Proud Italian Cook out of every one. I love your blog, made one of your recipes today. Always get wonderful comments on your food. I love your easy way of explaining a recipe. I have gotten in the habit of making a large batch of roasted vegies each week.
Keep up the good work, know you are watched.
May this lucky 7th year bring you many more years of blogging!! I have immensely enjoyed your blog and all the delicious recipes you share. Your use of fresh ingredients inspires me and the colors you use and combine always makes my mouth water! My most recent favorite recipe was “Zucchini Noodles with Slow Roasted Tomatoes and Cream”. Wow! Nutritious AND delicious! My boyfriend and I purchased a Spiralizer and have been in love with it ever since! Thank you for introducing us to such a great cooking tool! I thoroughly enjoy all of your recipes, but if I had to choose something I would like to see more of it would be some awesome breakfast recipes. I know you have done plenty in the past, but I love seeing new and unique breakfast recipes to impress my Italian boyfriend when I get to cook for him Saturday mornings! Keep up the fabulous work!
I LOVE your blog and look forward to seeing it every time. I’ve tried more recipes than I can remember and love everyone of them. I especially appreciate the pictures. They are gorgeous. I’m so very happy for you and your success. Your readers are enriched by you and your wonderful creativity.
Lucia
Love your recipes I have been following your blog for years. Congratulations on 7 years!!
I have loved every one of your recipes and the pictures! Porca madosca! I admire your creativity–especially in using those lovely vegetables!!! I WILL find an occasion to make the Limoncello tart, which, at the moment, sits temptingly only in my imagination!
Congratulations on your 7th Anniversary. I just loved the roasted tomato and cream sauce over the zucchini noodles. It was great. I haven’t been disappointed in anything I have made.
Happy Anniversary Marie! Thank you for sharing your recipes with us all. You have been such an inspiration to me and I can’t tell you how I look forward to ////////////Proud Italian Cook recipes in my in box! I love when you post about cooking with your family and sharing those traditions. This year I baked your Easter Lamb Cake (shared the photo with you) and it is now an Easter tradition in our home. Thank you for 7 years of delicious recipes, so many of which have become a staple in our home. XOXO ~Sue~
Congratulations Marie!!! I absolutely Love your website, have your e-book, and adore your recipes. Matter of fact, being in the western suburbs here in Il, I just picked up a boatload of Melrose peppers at the farmers market yesterday and am making peppers and sauce today! 🙂 Here’s to many more years of blogging for you Marie!!
I love your blog! Always one of my first go-to place for recipes. Congratulations on 7 years.
Congratulstions Marie on your 7th blogiversary!! I love reading your blog and have tried many of your recipes!!! In look forward to when I see your blog show up in my in box !! I will look for you on Facebook!!!
Happy 7th Anniversary ! Nothing says “Italian Cooking” better than your site. Thanks for sharing your love and knowledge of Italian food.
I LOVE your blog and get so much inspiration from it. Thank You!!!
Happy anniversary! Love reading your blog! Takes me back to growing up in my grandparent’s home.
Congrats and happy anniversary Marie!! I so look forward to your posts to see what “Marie’s cooking up now”! Love the info you provide and fabulous use of seasonal items. Such great tips and inspiration for my menus. Continued success from one of your true fans!
Happy Anniversary! I’ve been reading your blog for a few years now. I’m always inspired by your recipes.
I love your blog and have tried many, many of your recipes. None have disappointed! Keep up the good, and very delicious, work! Happy Anniversary!
As I can my fresh tomatoes from our farm i look back on some of your recipes and know that during the cold winter months i will have fresh tomato sauce for my pasta and soups.Your photos are as delicious as the actual food, thank you for continuing the italian tradition and enlightening so many people, my mother (95) who was born in Naples and her sister (90) still enjoy talking about their home and food in Italy, , Grazie, Emilie
Happy Anniversary Marie. I absolutely love this blog. Your recipes always inspire me and bring back wonderful memories of my Nonna, who was the best cook ever.
Marie,
7yrs. of the finest, most delicious and food to fork recipes !!! As a fellow Italian woman, I look weekly in my mail for your delicious and beautiful recipes..I have made soooo many of them Marie and very often tell the “FAMILIA” and my ”BUNCO’ GROUP how excited I get to open a new recipe and view all the beautiful pictures !!!
You are a true inspiration to me and my Italian Heritage and I take pride in making so very many of your fabulous recipes..the frittatas, the zucchini carpaccio, the ”pizzas” the eggplant recipes are the best…your seafood on the grill always looks and tastes like perfection, your ricotta recipes are to die for, exceptional and delicious !!! There are so many recipes I have tried of yours and just this past weekend told my bunco girls who were away with me, just how great your web-site is !!!! Looking forward to many more recipes and many more years of following your blog Marie…Bon Appetite !! Antoinette Sparano
Hello Antoinette! Guess what? You won my giveaway! Please contact me via email at prouditaliancook@hotmail.com
CONGRATULATIONS!
I love reading your blog…thank you! You give great, easy to follow recipes…a must for me(mother of 5). Please keep blogging away as you have really helped me. Congratulations on your anniversary!!!
Wow! I’ve never heard of this company, but after checking them out, I could sure have fun there with $75! Thank you for such a generous giveaway! And I love your blog, too!
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Happy Aniversary, Marie. You are my favorite food blogger. I love your ricotta stuffed meatballs and your little peppers stuffed with goat cheese. I am always happy when I see Proud Italian Cook in my in box.
Time flies when we’re eating well. And we are, thanks to you. The photos of your food always look so incredible. Better yet, your instructions are easy to follow and lend my preparations to be successful and delicious. Grilled Pesto Shrimp was the first recipe of yours I tried. I have never turned back. Thank you Marie!!
On another note, my husband and I visited Chicago for the first time this past June. And it won’t be our only visit. It’s a beautiful city with a rich, interesting history. The architecture is incredible! We had a fabulous time. Before we left (from North Carolina) I downloaded the photos from your “acting like tourists” with your family from Florida and we made certain we went to the same spots. We searched out and enjoyed the iconic Chicago foods you have praised. We had a scavenger hunt of sorts, following your “clues”. Unfortunately, we were told the 26ft Marilyn has retired to Florida.
congratulations !!!!! Love your recipes, keep up the great job.
Congratulations!!!! You are my very favorite…we have tried so many of your recipes…and they all have been spectacular.
You are such a star!!!!
Happy, happy blogiversary! 7 years! Congratulations and thank you for all the wonderful recipes! Great photos!
Lucky 7! I have recently discovered your blog and have pinned a LOT of amazing recipes to try!
Congrats on 7 years! That is a lot of dedication, time, editing, cooking and of course dishes :)!
I have made many of your dishes and think my favorite is the ricotta tart with the rice crust and the roasted vegetable torte. My family loves both of them too! Well, the kids really don’t love the eggplant I put in the torte, but oh well, that means more for hubby and I :)! Thank you for all of your inspiration!
Congratulations. I really enjoyed your summer dinner suggestions recently. I am SO tired of hot kitchens, and your plates inspired me.
I just found you a few months ago, but these past 8 weeks have been filled with new, beautiful things to eat. Tonight is the tomato tart. Sunday will be the zuchinni noodle with tomato cream sauce (made with my newly arrived spiralizer)! Happy Anniversary!
Your Website is one of my favorites.
i love all of the recipes and the casual way that you explain them.
I am going to try your vegetable napoleons for my birthday celebration!
They look magnificent!
Congratulation, Marie, on a great food blog! Your dishes always leave me with my mouth watering. Your pictures are great and instructions are always easy to follow. If I win the gift card to Eataly, maybe then I can purchase a Corzetti stamp ( I hope they sell them ) and make some homade Corzetti. Thanks for all the wonderful recipes. I look forward to all future ones.
Congratulations Marie — don’t you ever go away!
Reading your post, I just realized that FOODalogue just passed 7 years. I’m a bad mommy. Totally forgot! 🙂
I love the stuffed scallops recipe. I also grow basil and absolutely love scallops!
Thank you for all the info you post – I enjoy it all! Keep up the great work!
Ahh, I love this last recipe…stuffed scallops! I, too plant basil and I absolutely love scallops!
Thank you for all the info you post…I enjoy it all! Keep up the great work!
Ann
Congratulations and Happy Blogiversary! I am fairly new to your blog but I love it! What do I love about it? Your recipes are always so fresh, seasonal and of course so Italian…which in my opinion is the best food on earth! 🙂
Just keep doing what you do…no need to change a thing…it’s one of the best food blogs out there!
Congrats on your arrival at 7 years of blogging! I am newish to your site having arrived as I was searching for a veggie paella. Your pics are so clear- moth watering! And the simplicity of of your recipes is a great motivator. Plus I appreciate the love of good food and the detail you devote to food presentation associated with your posts. So much so that even tho I constantly tap into bloggers for food and presentation ideas- yours is the first one that I signed up to follow 🙂 So thanks for being there!
Happy Anniversary. I can’t believe I have been reading your blog for that long. I wrote you an email years ago about serving your Peach Gazpacho and your White Bean Hummus with Homemade Pita Chips at a supper club I was in at the time. You were so very nice to write me back. I have read every single post and look forward to the next. Please keep blogging!
Tanti Auguri! Congratulations on your 7 year blogiversary! Not sure how I found your blog, but it was one of the first ones I “bookmarked” when I started blogging a little over a year ago. I love your blog! 🙂
Congratulations on your 7th Blogiversary. I found your blog a couple of years ago and your recipes truly inspire me. Tonight we are having your Tomato Tart with Brown Rice Crust and later in the week we will be having the Zucchini Noodles with Slow Roasted and Cream Sauce. My daughter is going to have so much fun with my Spiralizer.
Congratulations! My husband and I both follow your blog and I’ve passed it on to many friends and family. I tend to make your recipes for large crowds, parties, school functions. My favorite is the roasted veggie pasta. I serve it at room temp and top with feta or ricotta salada. Thanks!
I’ve only recently discovered your site, but I absolutely love it and follow you on Pinterest,too . I’ve made the stained glass pasta and , in fact, I’m making it tomorrow for a dinner with some of my gal-pals. I love the simplicity of your basic pasta dough, which has now become my go-to standard. I’ve also tried your Corzetti instructions with good success – a few ovoid, rather than round, corzetti but they were still tasty. And for my husband’s birthday in February, I made the Caprese ravioli – so easy compared to traditional ravioli! Congrats on your blog-o-versary!
Congrats on 7 years of blogging!! Love following you and love all your recipes!! Looking forward to many more years of good recipes!! Keep up the great work!!
I have cooked so many of your recipes and not one has disappointed. Your recipes are great and I love the photography — shows off food just the way I want to see it. Of all the blogs I follow, this is my favorite. Congratulations on your 7th anniversary!
Congratulations Marie on 7 years. That’s a lot of time and effort and I’m so grateful that you do it. Take a deep breath and plunge in for another 7 years. I’ll be watching for your tips and recipes.
As a first generation Italian American (my mom and her family are from Gamberale-Chieti), I love how authentic your recipes are. Your true, simple, wonderful ingredient recipes remind me of my family’s secret recipes we have used throughout the generations. Thank you for spreading our wonderful culture to many people!
Congratulations!
Your paisana,
Eliza
Congratulations Marie! That’s quite a milestone…I love reading your blog and your recipes are always inspirational. Cincin – and to the next 7 years!
Well I am sorry I didn’t find you till now first time on your sight.Sound great can’t wait to try pesto .Love it and have tried on my own when I was growing in past years.Going to try growing indoors for winter because it is way to expensive for me to buy in store when I can find it there.Loved the other things you had on this page I will differently try some of them well have to ask a friend to eat with me because recipes are to much for one and don’t look like would be good next day or to freeze.Happy Anniversary and will let you know when I try some of these recipes.
Congratulations on Seven years! I hope that we have many more together. I grew up in a large Italian family and the memories of gathering and cooking follow me where ever I have gone. Your blog and recipes have really helped me to cherish my heritage even though “family” is across the country now. Thank You.
Congratulation on 7 years of sharing amazing food with all of us! You never fail to make me want to reach right into the screen and devour your food.
Congrats, Marie!! You know how I found your site…Cucidati! It has become my annual xmas eve/day baking tradition. Everyone loves them. Thank you for inspiring me to become more Italian in my cooking and baking. Someday, I will make your pasta, too. 🙂 So many wonderful recipes and so many wonderful stories. I think yours was likely one of the first blogs I ever read and added to my favorites. And, more than likely, it was a blog that helped me believe that I could launch my own blog. So, thank you for continually inspiring me in my baking and cooking, Marie! Ellen
Congrats on the blogaversary!!! Love your recipes, have made quite a few and they are always big hits!
Congratulations on your 7th anniversary! Your recipes are amazing, every recipe that I have made is absolutely delicious! Thank-you for the time and effort you put into them.
Congrats on your blogaversary!! Your photography is amazing and so is everything I have tried that you’ve created!
Congrats Marie on 7 fabulous years! blogging is such fun, whether it’s food or travel or anything else. I’ve been following you for a couple years now and truly love your recipes! My fav? Your veggie paella of course. The flavours were amazing and having a number of vegetarian members in the family it was a superb alternative for a main course. Thanks so much for sharing your passion for good food!
Diane
Always enjoy seeing what you have going! An inspiration to try many new things! Thanks for ALL the years and great articles!
Complimenti, cara Marie! Yours is one of my favorite blogs because it’s like getting recipes from one of my beloved sisters or cousins, sharing our heritage and rejoicing in the sharing of food and family. God bless you on your anniversary.
Giuditta
Thanks for all the simply tips and tricks! You’re zucchini and tomato gratin is a family favorite! Congrats on 7 years, I look forward to the next 7:)
I look forward to getting your emails with the latest recipes. The photos make the food look delicious and do you know something? It tastes even BETTER than it looks. Italian food is the best in the world and you give it a new, fresh edge. You aren’t a chef showing us ‘restaurant’ recipes. You’re a ‘real’ person showing us achievable recipes that our families and friends will love to eat. Thank You. xx
Happy 7th, Marie! I’m hoping the fun never wanes for you cause I’d forever miss your blog. On the rare times I venture out and try recipes from other sites, I’m usually disappointed, and come rushing back to your tried and trues. Looking forward to the next 7 years of fabulous recipes…
Marie,
Happy Anniversary! You remind me of my Sicilian mom and aunts, you all are so cute!
I love everything about your blog- the pictures make my mouth water and the instructions are clear and well-organized. I pin almost every one, and am working through many of the grilled ones this summer!
Keep it coming!
Michele
Marie, You are awesome! I really enjoy your blog. What really got me hooked was the Melrose Pepper It’s a Chicago thing. I remember eating Melrose peppers when I was a kid. I got so inspired that I ordered Melrose pepper seeds and started growing my own plants here in Minnesota. I have had Melrose peppers now for three years. I make your stuffed Melrose peppers recipe and my husband can’t get enough of them! We have enjoyed making many of your recipes. Keep up the good work. Congratulations on 7 years of deliciousness!
Thanks for all the wonderful recipes. Each one I’ve tried has been a real winner!
Congratulations! I get rave reviews when I make your recipes. Bellisima!
Congratulations! I love your blog and your recipies are delicious! You put the fun back in cooking! I’m Italian and I love cooking and sharing your recipies with my family!!!
Congratulations on your anniversary. I met you when I thought cooking classes at Williams-Sonoma. It was early on in your
Blogging and you shared your site with me to check out. I have been a big fan ever since. I look forward to reading it every month. I wish you all the best for continued success.
Congratulations on a job well done!! I accidentally happened by you one day a few years ago and immediately bookmarked your site. You have expanded my culinary experiences. I never knew much about Italian cooking, pretty much spaghetti & meatballs was it…. now I make MANY or your recipes… so, my husband thanks you too!!
THERE IS ONLY ONE WORD TO DESCRIBE MARIE AND HER WEBSITE…..
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Congrats, Marie! This is one of my favorite cooking blogs. Your dishes always look so fresh and beautiful and are inspiring – here’s to many more!!
I love your blog and love shopping at Eataly in Chicago.
My husband……100% Italian! Me……Swedish! Thank you sooooooo much for your recipes. They’ve been my lifesaver!
Hi Marie! I feel as though I know you! My family, friends and I have been the beneficiaries of your wonderful blog. You have never led me wrong! Every recipe of yours I have tried has been wonderful, and some have made enough return appearances to have become family favorites! Congratulations on your Anniversary and wishing you many more!
Congrats, Marie, on 7 years of making my mouth water seeing the pictures of your amazing recipes. I’ve tried a few of your recipes and have always been happy with the results. You are an amazing, gifted cook willing to share your talents with the rest of us. And yes, thanks, for always answering my cooking questions when I get stuck. Here’s to many more delicious years!! God bless you, your family and all your followers!! xo
Love your recipes and your photos.
I am a lover of Slow Food and would love the opportunity to order some truffles when they come in season. I’m so happy to be introduced to the Eataly website. Thank you for the information on your wonderful blog.
Congrats on your first seven years!!!!! I can’t wait to read and see what the next seven will be like.
Thanks for sharing so beautifully all of the traditional Italian recipes with some nice twists!!!
Thank you for your enlightening blog! I am so thrilled when I open up one of your posts. Each one brings back so many memories and makes me a Proud Italian as well! I just visited Eataly for the first time this past week! I was like a little kid on Christmas morning. I did not know where to look or go first. It was a wonderful experience and I cannot wait to go back! Please keep posting all of these great recipes and stories. I love them! Thank you for this wonderful opportunity to win a gift certificate to Eataly!
Congratulations, Marie! I look forward to every one of your posts and feel like we’ve become “friends” through the last seven years as I’ve gotten to know your cooking style…LOL…here’s to many more years of blogging!!!!
Congrats on your anniversary. I enjoy this blog very much. THANK YOU!!!
Happy anniversary! Love your blog and the photos look good enough to eat!
Congratulations on celebrating your seventh successful year. I have been inspired by many of your posts. Keep it up.
Congrats on 7 years!! Love your blog, and have made several of your recipes-always with great results! And I am still researching my first trip to Italy! Hope to make that happen in the next couple of years! Thanks for your informative and fun blog!
Happy Anniversary. Yours is the first food blog I ever followed and still my fave. Amazing recipes and gorgeous photos! Keep it up!
Happy Anniversary!! Thank you for creating such wonderful recipes for us to enjoy. Whenever I am hosting and want to plan a special meal this site is my first stop. We have tired so many of your recipes and they are always a huge hit with everyone, keep them coming!!
Congratulations! I bet the years have gone by fast – especially when you’re having fun. You are certainly an inspiration and a good example for excellence. I’ve just started my blog – a few months ago – I never knew there was such a huge blog world out there — I enjoy telling stories and I love cooking and baking. I have a lot of learning to do — we are retired and I wish our kids were home so I could cook for them. I’d love to see Eataly I hear it is an experience.
Grazie Marie e Felice anniversario
Happy anniversary! Your dishes are so beautiful and inspiring! I always look forward to your next creation! Thank you!
I LOVE Eataly…it’s one of my favorite places to visit when I am in the city….I can’t wait for my next trip …heading to the food and wine festival in October!
Hi, Maria —
Love, love, love your blog! Today is the feast day of Santa Maria, a tradition followed in my father’s home town in Italy and one which we have continued to follow here in the USA. Many, many happy memories in my life of this celebration. Today I’m making our traditional Torta from potatoes, basil, cheese and tomato sauce. Yum!!!
Keep the blogs coming. You inspire me!! Your techniques and descriptions are easy to follow and the photos help tremendously. It’s like cooking with my mother. Much love being sent your way. xox
Happy anniversary! 🙂 I love your recipes and cooking style! Thank you for the giveaway, I’ve been to Eataly, it’s so much fun! It’s an Italian foodie paradise! 🙂
Congratulations Marie! I love , love , love your blog! Not to mention all those wonderful recipes. The photos are so beautifully done. My dishes never come out quite as pretty, but oh the flavors. Love all the fresh veggies and the clever ways you come up with to prepare them. When ever I see an email notification from you I set it aside until later when I can relax and enjoy. Always look forward to them. Again congrats and thank you so much for sharing.
Congratulations
I always look forward to your posts and recipes ! I bought the online cookbook and use it often. Thanks for all you have done for food lovers and info you provide. You deserve so much credit. GRAZIE
Just recently discovered your blog. Am so excited I did. Love you recipes. Reminds me so much of the wonderful Italian family dinners that my mom put on the table. Grazie and happy anniversary.
Congratulations on 7 years 🙂
I love all the beautiful pictures and recipes on your blog. I grew up on delicious Italian food.
I’d love to see more recipes with melrose peppers!
Hi Marie-love your blog and recipes. Congratulations on 7 years of a great blog!!!
Congratulations Marie, Happy Anniversary ! A hug from Trieste (north east Italy)
i cant believe youve been blogging 7 yrs! i just found you & subscribed. i LOVE your recipes.
Marie, I’m happy to say that have been a reader of your blog from the beginning, and it is so nice to see the success that you have become! You are sharing your love of cooking healthy Italian food with the world! Continued success in your blogging years ahead–I’m still hoping you will get an offer to publish your own cookbook, as I’ve been hoping for all these years! 🙂
I miss having access to NYC’s Eataly and a gc sounds like a fantastic giveaway to win! I already have a list of things I’d want to buy! 🙂
Here’ storage many more! Always look forward to your unique and informative blog.
Auguri, Marie, on 7 years of doing what you love and sharing it with us! I love the beautiful photos used on your blog and seeing all the lovely colors of the fresh vegetables that you use in your recipes. My favorite blog post was the assembly line to make the Christmas cookies. (cucuidati?) Thanks for all you do!
Congratulations on your anniversary, may you have many more. Eataly is one of my favorite places to shop.
Happy Anniversary Marie,
love your recipes, I’ve tried some of them and everyone loved them. Can depend on you to come up with some delicious recipes.
thanks so much
Ceil
I’ve only been following for a short while, but I’d like to congratulate you on such an inspiring blog. Just last week I made the ricotta & rice crusted tomato tart. It was absolutely delicious!
May you continue to inspire all of us for many years to come!!
Congrats, Marie!! I’ ve been with you for probably 5/7 years! Love your style of writing, your approach to cooking “Italian” –you remind me so much of my late mother-in-law. She could take anything she had –sausage, veggies, etc.– like you do & made a delicious meal! Thank you for that! Great memories! And….August 15th is my birthday—great date for your anniversary 🙂
Happy 7th Blogiversary! Congrats!!
I love your blog and always look forward to your next posting. All the food and recipes remind me of my own family. Love it all!
Congratulations and here’s to another seven years. I’ve tried several of your recipes and love the results. I’m half-Italian and seeing your photos reminds of all the fun and festivities cooking with my mom and grandmother over the years.
Congratulations Marie and here’s to your next 7 fabulous years! I love that your family is such a source of inspiration and happiness for you. It’s the same with my family – food and family go hand in hand and my favorite recipes are the ones that have been passed down from my grandmothers and great grandmothers. Best wishes on your anniversary!
Best wishes on your anniversary of sharing your many delicious recipes along with beautiful photos. Growing up Italian/Brooklyn, I don’t always like anyone else’s recipes or cooking styles other than my family. But, I truly enjoy your blog and your cooking style and recipes. I have shared many recipes and have had many friends and family sign up to receive your blog. Keep on cooking – we love it!
I’m not commenting to win something. I’m simply saying thank you for your blog. I so appreciate your generosity in sharing your creative and always no fail, delicious recipes. I get excited each time I receive an email blog announcement. Your recipes have become a staple in our home. Please give us many more years of blogging!
Congratulations on your wonderful blog. Eatily is one of my favorite places to visit in Chicago. Love the food bread, pasta, wine, chocolates, lattes apricot croissants…the list goes on and on. I can lose myself in there for hours…
Congratulations!!! So proud of you!!! I love your blog and always read it! I’ve tried many of your recipes but am most looking forward to trying the pesto stuffed scallops!
Congratulations! I found your blog a year or so ago and I was absolutely amazed! Everything looks so delicious and healthy too! I love roasted veggies and so many of your recipes feature them. You inspire me! We recently tried the onion blossom and we prefer that to a fried one. Everything is beautiful and delicious!
Love, love, love your site!
Congratulations! I look forward to every recipe you post. My whole family loves the caprese style portobellos. So easy and delicious.
Hi Marie and Happy Anniversary! When I found your site, it felt like home. My mom is named Marie and we have Italian relatives in Chicago. I love the things you make; so many bring back wonderful memories of cooking and eating at Grandma’s! Thanks for all the hard work you put into Proud Italian Cook!
Thank you for your wonderful recipes, family history, and inspiration to cook Italian! I’ve followed for several years. Love all your grilled vegie recipes, especially the peppers stuffed with rice, vegies, and cheese, and anything eggplant.
My grandmother taught me and I am forever grateful and try to channel her anytime I cook! Keep up the good food!
Congratulations! I just found you this last year and I am so glad I did. I have made many of your recipes, all delicious. Although I usually cook for two, I so enjoy reading about when your family gets together and makes huge amounts of holiday food. I hope to last seven years plus because I have found it so therapeutic and I have made some friends that I would not have known any other way.
Madonna
MakeMineLemon
Congratulations! I love so many of your recipes. I especially enjoyed the Zucchini Noodles and Slow Roasted Tomatoes with Cream. Thanks.
I can’t wait to try your pesto stuffed scallops recipe. Hopefully there’ll be a sale on sea scallops sometime soon. I enjoy your blog and the varied recipes.
Such a beautiful blog of enticing recipes I must try! Thank you.
happy anniversary to you,,,,,,,being italian,,it is especially nice to see all your input,,reminds me of my childhood,,happy happy
I came across this heavily blog while looking for a recipe and I found Heaven. I decide to take a chance and subscribe in order to receive recipes emailed to me. So far I have NOT regretted it. I made the chardonnay and olive oil cake for a dinner party with friends they absolutely loved it. I also did a few others can’t remember the names. Also since I plan my Christmas menu way in advanced and keep it healthy, I’m planning on making the tomato tart with brown rice crust, which was added recently
Being from the Caribbean it’s fun to try these recipes and add a Lil Caribbean twist and flavour. Happy Blogiversary! Thank you for entering my life and kitchen virtually. God bless.
Congratulations on making thousands of people happy for 7 years. You never cease to amaze me. “A picture is worth a thousand words” goes without saying. And . . . this is surely reflected on your site. I just had guests over to try your most recent recipes. I purchased extra large sea scallops at Sam’s club and used my new mortar and pestle to make the pesto for the Pesto Stuffed Scallops and made it exactly as you did. As an accompaniment your Tomato Tart with Brown Rice Crust
was great with the Scallops. The scallop dish was incredulous and the entire meal was stupendous. Naturally a couple of bottles of great Italian wine was served and after cleaning up a bit, we all enjoyed what I consider the best Limoncello you can buy, which is Ventura, hand made in Ventura, California. It is now sold in Florida. Looking forward to many more years of
your lovely site. Wishing you and your family the Best.
Happy anniversary! I love your blog! I have used many of your recipes and your pesto is a mainstay at our house. I made your pesto scallops just last night and they were sensational! I highly recommend them even if you have a family member not fond of scallops. This recipe just might change their mind. 🙂
Congratulations Marie! I am finding you such an inspiration – especially when using your garden favorites. I am home with my 91 year Italian mom who has always had a green thumb. As her health weakens, I am trying to take over the gardening – it is a challenge, but with her guidance and your inspiration and love of all things in the garden for cooking, I am motivated to learn as much as I can. Our tomatoes, zucchini, cucumbers and herbs are thriving. I love your recipes – keep them coming. Thanks!
Happy 7th anniversary for your blog!
Happy Anniversary, Marie!
And here’s to another year of un-fussy recipes, bursting with scrumptious flavor and eye-popping color, gorgeously photographed, … and all generously shared with your adoring followers!!!
We love you!
Happy 7th Anniversary! I am so thankful that I stumbled across your blog via Pinterest because your recipes are seriously delicious without being overly complicated. And your e-cookbook, I absolutely adore. My Italian grandmother always enjoys all of your recipes I prepare! Best of luck and here is to 7 more years! 🙂
Congratulations! This is truly the only food blog out there that I have stuck with consistently over the years–the photos and the recipes are truly amazing. I love the stories scattered throughout. I can’t wait to try to recent scallops w pesto…but I have to say…I always come back to one that is pretty simple and so awesome this time of year – tomato corn pie. Screams summer to me and so simple, but impressive. Please keep doing what your doing. This is such an amazing blog and I am so happy to have discovered it!
Happy Anniversary, Marie. Each week I look forward to what gastronamic pleasure you are cooking up for my hearty appetite. Your pictures alone make me drool. Being of Sicilian decent I am especially interested in your weekly offerings. I recently made your “Tomato Tart with Brown Rice Crust” and everyone loved it. Thanks for all the wonderful inspiration and love you give to us.
You are a true inspiration to us Italian foodies and I thank you!!! Happy 7th anniversary.
Deusa
Congratulations! I love your blog… it feels like home to me. Your posts are so inspiring and photos so mouthwatering and I can almost smell your delicious meals through my screen! I know it isn’t typical for Italian cooking but as I am a beginner the only thing I would love to see more of is specifics – amounts, directions, and especially what brands you use and love. Thank you so much!
Last summer I made your cherry-studded ricotta tart for a special dinner party with my childhood friends. Such a beautiful, delicious tart with perfect, easy instructions. Love your recipes and stories.
Felice Anniversario! Happy Anniversary Marie on your wonderful blog!!! Thanks so much for all the hard work and time you put into! Love your recipes! Wishing you all the best!
Marie
Love your pictures–they inspire me constantly! Amazing food–thanks for all of your effort!
You, your recipes and photos have been inspiring me ever since I found your blog! Growing up in the suburbs, I feel like I am reading about home too. Even though I live 1000 miles away now, I recently visited and was able to experience Eataly! What a fun place—next best thing to being there.
Congrats, Marie!! I look forward to your emails with delicious new recipes every week. I especially have enjoyed trying your recipes, such as your Italian salad dressing, your zuchinni ribbon salad, and your tomato cheese rice pie. I have spread the Marie blog news amongst coworkers as well. Keep cooking!!
Congratulations! I love your authentic Italian recipes and your wonderful explanations. I always look forward to your creative ideas. Auguri!
I have loved seeing all your blogs about the things you have made and where you have been. Always look forward to seeing new things from you it brightens my day. Congrats!!!!
absolutely love your recipes. Shared your site with my daughter and daughter-in-laws.
They are thrilled.
Thank you for all your wonderful recipes! Your roasted Parmesan creamed onions are amoung my most favorite recipes of yours!
Love your blog…I, too am a Proud Italian Cook. And not until I started reading your blog did I have the ambition to try more and more of your lovely Italian recipes. The most recent were the Summer Crostinis. Tried for the first time Burata cheese…heavenly fresh mozzarella with cream inside…delicious. Congrats on your anniversary and keep up the excellent (delicious!) work.
Your recipes are informative and most enjoyed. Congratulations! Looking forward to the eighth year.
Congratulations and Happy Anniversary!! I enjoy reading your blog posts – I find that they inspire me to go to the kitchen and whip up something wonderful. I have forwarded your blog to my mother and sister who also enjoy your recipes. Savor the day!!
Marie,
Auguri! Sette Anni! Wishing you (and us) many more years enjoying your beautiful blog which is my “Go To” site for any all recipes. Your photos are not just mouth watering but your recipes have never failed me. All of your pasta dishes are my favorite but since I’m trying to steer clear of pasta, this week I made your zucchini ribbon salad and it was a hit! Thank you for sharing your love of Italian food and talent with us. Buon Anniversario!
congratulations and happy anniversary and for many more! I have tried so many of your beautiful looking recipes and have never been disappointed. You have made me appreciate my vegetable garden more every year with the fresh produce and herbs I put to good use. I absolutely love your vegetable torte it makes such a presentation at parties. Thank you for making such incredibly delicious dishes!!
congrats on your 7 years as a blogger.
Fiero Cuoco Italiano ….. Congratulazione ….. Great blog!!!
Absolutely some of the best recipes I have ever seen, Your photos make my mouth water.
Congratulations! I just love seeing the pictures of your beautiful food and reading the recipes. To me this is Italian food and not some Americanized food smothered in mozzarella lol! I love your simple ingredients and straight forward approach and even when I don’t make a particular recipe you inspire me to use what I have on hand to make something simple and delicious! Brava!
Happy anniversary for your blog writing … I know it is a testimony to your hard work and wonderful recipes over the years.
I loved the baked cod with fennel and olives recipe! It was so colorful and delicious! All of the recipes are so colorful and visually appealing.
Happy Anniversary! I love your recipes and blog. Here’s to seven more years!
Congratulations! Great blog – I love to see the recipes you post!
Your recipes are delightful, the photos that accompany them are a feast for the eyes. I frequently send links of your recipes to friends hoping to get them to follow your blog.
Happy Anniversary, here’s to many more. Thank you.
Leia
Congrats ! I may be Irish by birth but in my heart, I am Italian! I will visit Italy one day, but until them I will live vicariously through your blog and recipes!!! Bon Appetit!
Congratulations on your anniversary!! So happy that I found your site…Love, Love your creative ideas and wonderful presentations! Nothing like bringing family and friends over and breaking bread!
Here’s to many more happy years and thanks for sharing all of your wonderful ideas!!
Lisa
Happy 7th! I can’t tell you how much I enjoy your bog! I have tried many of your recipes and loved them all…..so authentic and also original! As a proud 100% Italian myself, I find myself going back to many of your posts and they bring to memories of my family and how important food has been in my life and our culture! Thanks and keep blogging and more importantly, keep cooking and sharing!
I love your blog and look forward to it coming out. I love to cook and try new things. My Husband loves whole grilled fish and your recent post in July showed a different version to try. I also plan on making your “Homemade Decadent Gift, Mendiants” for gifts for my family when I go home to visit in Alabama. I would love to win the giveaway to help get wonderful ingredients to cook some more! Happy Seventh Year Blogiversary 🙂
Love your Blog and enjoy your recipe’s so much. I’m a faithful reader and envy the fact that you get to enjoy your summers in Italy. I would love to swap places with you. Congrats on 7 years and here is to 7 more happy, and healthy years. Cento anni
Happy Anniversary! Your blog is great. I especially like the wonderful photography. Everything always looks so colorful and delicious.
You make my mouth water!!!
Congratulations on your blogoversery! I am dying to go to Eatly . I use to live in NJ but now FL…..my friend has gone to Eatly and he loves it.
Congratulations on your blogoversery! I think I have been a follower for almost most of it too! What I have loved is not only the recipes but the beautiful food photography! You have a wonderful blog!
I am not on Facebook so I receive your posts via email. I just love it when “Proud Italian Cook” shows up in my inbox! I have made quite a few of your recipes…the pasta fagioli is one of our favorites. I am half Italian and my grandmother was a wonderful Italian cook and that’s who I take after. My Mom…not so much!! Keep those posts coming! Happy 7th Anniversary!
What a great accomplishment to have a long-standing and popular blog. I love checking out your post each time I get an email. I’ve made some of your recipes and they are wonderful! The other thing I wanted to compliment is your photos. I think they are of excellent quality and really make me want to eat the food …. NOW!
Been with you from the start.
Get lots of great reviews when I use your recipes.
Love your cook book, it’s on my kindle!
Thanks for the recipes Marieg.
I have made many if your receipes for my family & you
have made me a “chef” in their eyes! ❤️❤️ I look forward
to your email with a new receipe!
I too am a proud (half!) Italian cook and find inspiration from your blog regularly…happy anniversary to you!
Marie, I just picked a bagful of tomatoes and went right to your book to make sauce “My Way” for the freezer.
Keep up the good work!
Congratulations on your 7th anniversary. I was so happy to find your blog since I love Italian food and am always on the look out for great recipes. Yours are very down home and easy to prepare. I love the pita chips with white bean dip. One of our favs. I’ve made a few more of the appetizer recipes and pasta recipes. Too many to mention. Love all the photos. Hope you keep going for another 7 years. Best of everything to you and yours. Kathy from California.
I want to try your pesto stuffed scallops..I read your blog as best as I can, love your recipes and I do roast veggies as a result and cook up noodles, spaghetti very well since I have read how you do it..I would love to win the e-card as I believe the store is a vast vast purveyor of Italian authentic Italian foods and we love the real deal..HAPPY 7TH BLOG ANNIVERSARY, many more years of great cooking and sharing, you are wonderful, sincerely Mary Jane from out west!
Happy blogiversary!! I found your blog just the other day and added it to my sidebar. Also linked to your Tomato Tart with Brown Rice crust recipe which I made the next day. It was SO good. I now eagerly await each and every new recipe that you so kindly share!
Cheers!
I loved the caprese ravioli made with lasagna sheets!
Congrats on the 7 years! Love your blog!!!
Here’s to another 7 years! I especially love your photos-I can almost taste the food. They are truly beautiful.
Love all your use of fresh veggies!
Co0ngratulations on 7 wonderful years Marie. I am sure I have followed your from the beginning. We both still enjoy blogging and the community after all these years. Here’s to many more wonderful recipes and shared experiences.
Love your blog. Have the zucchini noodles with tomato cream sauce on the menu. And several other recipes pinned!
I adore your blog. Just made your recipe for Zucchini Noodles with Roasted Tomato Cream Sauce. To DIE for. Loved it and just like lots of your other recipes, this will become a staple Congratulations!!!
Congrats! I just found your site and I love it! Thank you!
I’ve gained 10 lbs. since I’ve followed you 🙂
I have been a follower for some time now. Happy Blog Anniversary! I love everything you make, but one of my favorites were your baked zucchini fries. Everyone I have made them for loves them! I did a post on them and linked back to you. Here is that post:
http://www.thecomfortsofhome.blogspot.com/2014/07/three-great-zucchini-recipes.html
Thanks for the chance to win the GC from Eataly!
Penny
I like your appetizers recipe section and I would like to see recipes listed by region.
Happy Blogiversary Marie! i check in here at least twice a week, I’m always happy with what i make from here. as i scrolled down today and saw those scallops and my mouth watered! YUMMMM
Congrats! I have kept up with your blog a little over 2 years now and find inspiration in the way you cook and let your personality shine through the food on your blog. I always get great ideas from your recipes and follow your mentality to use whatever I have on hand to make something delicious and unique! Keep up the good work- and I hope to see you around for many years to come!
I thank you and my family thanks you for all the wonderful recipes.
Marie: Just over one year ago I found your blog and your wonderful recipes.
Last night I printed out your recipe for the pesto stuffed scallops and my husband
can’t wait to have them for dinner. The scallops like all of your recipes that we have
tried I know will be delicious.
Looking forward to going through all of your recipes. Everyone that we have tried
have always beed delicious.
Happy 7th Blogiversary and I wish I had found you 6 years earlier.
Congratulations and Here’s to many more years.
Denise
Congratulations! I found your blog about 6 months ago and have become addicted. I am particularly impressed by your light and tasty vegetable based recipes. Keep posting we really appreciate the love and effort you put into your food prep. Thank you.
I started roasting veggies after reading your blog! My family loves it!
Happy Anniversary! Everything on your blog is mouthwatering, keep up the good work. I really enjoy coming to this space to see whats new.
Congratulation! I have enjoyed many of your recipes but especially your stuffed porkchops! Because of you I made the journey out to standard market which is about a half hour from my house i’m really glad I did because it’s such a wonderful little market!
Congratulations – seven years of blogging is really something and then such a beautifully delicious blog! Bravo!
I’ve really enjoyed reading this blog over the last couple of years! I’m curious as to how much you use Eataly for your own cooking? Thank you for everything!
Congratulations and happy Anniversary! I frequently look to your site for inspiration and mouth watering recipes.I just love all of the fresh veggies that you use. Oh, and that Timpano is on my list of things to make – maybe this Christmas!
After growing up in Chicago we moved to Alabama where there is absolutely nothing that reminds me of home. I found your blog and follow you religiously because it carries me home and reminds me of my grandmother and all the delicious things she would cook for us growing up. You have helped me carry some of “home” into my new home here in Alabama. Thank you!!!
I love your blog! I made the Butternut squash lasagna with bechamel for my family and it was a huge hit! Thank you for your recipes and cooking tips!!
Congratulations on your anniversary! I just recently found your blog, and love the recipes that you post. I am an Italian American from first generation Italian parents and love the way you blend the “old world” Italian with the “new world” Italian! So happy to follow you!!
i love your blog and your recipes!
CONGRATULATIONS! That’s an awesome milestone. And Eataly is my favorite online store. Makes me drool every time I visit. 🙂
Congratulations for 7 successful years! Your website has become my go to place when I’m looking for something for inspiration. I love the photographs! And every recipe I’ve tried has been a keeper! I hope to attend one of your classes in Italy one day. It’s pizza tonight, so keep the sharing your recipes with us! Thanks
Marie,
I’ve been following you for a long time now. Congrats on 7 years! I love your style, your recipes and your overall approach to food. I use your recipes regularly and recently introduced your blog to my cousin. She is loving it as well!
Thanks for sharing!
Christine
Thank you for all the wonderful recipes! I especially love the pasta-veggie combos/salads and the seafood ones like your recent scallops post. Happy blogiversary!
Congratulations Marie! I love your blog and can’t tell you the number of times I’ve referred back to that perfect recipe, or gone searching for the ideal menu item. Thank you for all you do for us. Happy Anniversary!
Want to extend my congratulations Marie. From my mother and I, thank you so much for your wonderful recipes. We have tried several. The ricotta gnocci are a staple in our house now. Your cacciatore made us remember a long time ago. Just wonderful. Your warm ways, great photographs and prompt, actual responses to questions are so appreciated. Know you are very special to all of us! We wish you another 7 years….at least. I was going to wish you another 100 years but then thought who in their right mind would want another 100 years of me schlepping behind them! LOL!
Absolutely love your blog! I have made several of your recipies and everyone has turned out awesome! Keep up the posting. Foodieville is a better place because of you!
Congratulations, Marie, and Happy Anniversary. I have been one of your faithful fans almost since the beginning and I’ve learned so much about Italian cooking from you. I know I can always count on your wonderful recipes. A GC to Eataly is a fantastic giveaway!!! Wouldn’t I love to be that lucky winner. Looking forward to your next seven years of blogging with hungry anticipation.