Blog - Shaye's Italian Kitchen

Dear friend, I’ve been thinking a lot about fun lately.

Dear friend, I feel so grateful to share something special with you this week — our annual cottage Christmas tour.

Hi friend, I’m inviting you into my kitchen this week for some quality cooking time together.

Hi friend, Thirteen years ago, Stuart and I found ourselves spending Thanksgiving in Alabama — a place we called home for a year.

Hi friend, I did the thing I should never do: I decided that the week before hosting twenty guests for Thanksgiving would be the perfect time to paint the baseboard in my kitchen.

Hi friend, Here at the Elliott Homestead, we are quickly approaching Thanksgiving and the holidays.

Hi friend, After explaining the wild week that we’ve had to my Italian tutor, Alessandra, she taught me a new saying: Piove sempre sul bagnata.

Hi friend, I just got back from a Shaye-time-out.

Hi friend, I was a bit scared to share my intimate newsletter with you earlier this week, as if exposing myself as someone who has said no to Botox would alienate some of you in the way that choosing a different cultural path sometimes can.

Hi friend, Home is a beautiful word to me.

Hi friend, Stuart and I left for Italy yesterday — I’ve sent this email somewhere in the air between Seattle → Frankfurt → Florence.

Hi friend, I’m filled with peace as I write this letter to you.

Hi friend, When all is moving too fast, too wildly, too out of control, I turn inwards towards something I can make with my hands in the kitchen.

Hi friend, My favorite Italian word is by far the Italian word for homebody: pantofolaio (pantofolaia for a woman!).

Hi friend, The light has officially shifted to autumn.

Hi friend, I know it was a hard week for our country.

“You are more precious than jewels.” — Proverbs 31:10 I regularly practice and find pleasure in many self-care rituals: from time in the sauna to eating my body weight in grams of protein.

Hello friend, There are weeks when my words are plenty… and there are weeks when my words are few.

Hello friend, I have one word to say: Hallelujah!

If you have nothing planned for dinner, you can make this.