Recipes Jacqueline Mitchell Recipes Jacqueline Mitchell

Hearty, Authentic, and Delicious: Mantovan Rice with Sausage

Cold weather abounds, and there are few belly-filling comforting dishes like this Italian classic, Riso alla Pilota, or Mantovan Rice. Made with delicious sausage, soft rice, and creamy parmesan, this dish is great for quick weeknight dinners, or to impress friends at your next gathering.

Not technically a risotto, this is a special dish all its own, and now is the time to make it popular! It's yummyness plus great small production wines are sure to make it a hit!

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Like Mother Like Daughter? ... How Wine has Been a Part of Life-Changing Moments in the Petrussa Family

As the saying goes ‘like mother like daughter’…the women of Vigna Petrussa have been following in the footsteps of their mothers and joining in on the family’s wine business.

The vineyards of Vigna Petrussa have been in the family for several generations, but it wasn’t until Hilde’s mother, Giuseppina, started to make wine from her father’s vineyards, in the north eastern Friuli Venezia Giulia region of Italy near the Slovenian border, that the Vigna Petrussa winery was born….

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