Bella Cibo
8675 walnutgrove drive v1m2n6 Langley, BC, Canada

I am often asked what my "must haves" are when it comes to my kitchen. Here is a list of items that I make sure are always stocked in my fridge: Milk Butter... Fresh Eggs Good Quality Cheese Mozzarella Antipasto Jam Real Parmigiano-Reggiano Grana Padano Pecorino Fresh Fruit Fresh Vegetatbles What is a staple item that you always have in your fridge?

Sweet throwback to last November when I decided to dedicate the Fresh Pasta recipe from my cookbook to all the Italian Women around the world, who keep all the Italian Food traditions alive. I think they deserve it, right? At first I was thinking to dedicate the whole book to all the immigrants out there but then I thought that this book, my first book, needed to be dedicated to my parents and also to my in laws When I moved to Canada, I was fascinated by all the Italian C...anadian Women I encountered who invariably made fresh pasta and other traditional dishes for their family. There is a lot to admire in these women, because they had to learn this skill in a era without the internet. Truly, I have so much respect for all the Italian and not Italian women who left their Country during such a difficult time to embark upon a new life in a new world without being able to speak English. For the love of their family all those women were able to keep their cultural and food traditions alive. Happy Thursday See more

Bucatini Amatriciana leftover from last night. This is a family favourite Did you ever try to make it?

Happy St. Patrick Day Yesterday I made Irish Soda Bread for the first time, inspired by one of my follower that I love deeply ( you know who you are) I m Italian and I never even ate Irish bread so I had no idea what I was looking for taste. It is a perfect breakfast bread to have with butter and jam This was the most easy bread I ever made I used @myfamilytable recipe and worked perfectly. ... Here her written recipe, also check her website she has lots of good recipes Enjoy the day INGREDIENTS 4 to 4 cups flour 1 tbsp sugar 1 tsp salt 1 tsp baking soda 4 tbsp butter cut into small pieces 1 large egg, slightly beaten 2 tbsp lemon juice - 1 3/4 cup milk A sprinkle of love METHOD: 1. Preheat oven to 425 F 2. Mix the dry ingredients. Using a pastry cutter or your fingers, work the butter into the flour mixture until it become coarse meal/crumbs. 3. Pour the lemon juice in a 2 cup glass measuring cup and fill up to 1 3/4 mark with milk. Let milk sit for several minutes to sour.( I took the opportunity to make an espresso while I was waiting) Make a well in the center of the flour mixture. Add beaten egg and soured milk to the well and mix with a wooden spoon. Once the dough is too stiff to stir, dust hands with a little flour, and then gently knead dough in the bowl just long enough to form a ball. If the dough is too sticky, add in a little additional flour. 4. Shape dough into a round loaf. (The dough will be a little sticky and quite rugged looking.) But do not over-knead! Work it just enough so that the flour is just moistened and the dough just barely comes together. Rough and shaggy is good. Over-kneading will result in a tough loaf of bread. 5. Put the dough on baking sheet. Using a serrated knife, score top and make a cross or x shape. 6. Put it in the oven and cook until bread is golden brown for about 35-40 minutes. 7. This bread is perfect with some butter and jam 8. Buon Appetito

Hello friends I would love to introduce you to the book that made me best seller author: @pursuit_365 Im so honoured to be co-author with other 364 Canadian Woman Leaders in the society that make the difference in every day life. Thank you @shellylynn.hughes for include me in your vision and thank you to all if you, you made this book best seller in Amazon This book will make the difference and it will inspire so many people to do great things like we did Thank you @she...llylynn.hughes and the team to make this book a reality #pursuit365 #freshmag #women #leaders #inspiring #canadianwomen #makethedifference #canada See more

This is how I start my day every day: by the stove waiting for my espresso to come up , such a big Part of my Italian Tradition Its the most important moment of the day, I get inspired by the espresso steam that make my kitchen smell amazing What’s your favourite moment of the day? .... . . #espressolover #lavazza #bialetti #italianculture #italiantradition #italianmama #caffe #macchinetta @bialettiofficial @lavazzaca

Lemon Cookies Effect Quit few of view made the lemon cookies from recipe that I sent few weeks ago for people in my email list. Which recipe should I make this week? . .... . . #lemoncookies #recipe #familyrecipe #cookies #bakingqueen #cookingwithmammamarzia #italiancookbook #cookbook #cookbookauthor #langley #vancouver #canada #immigrant See more

Doors...I love them so much. Every time I travel to Italy I take picture of all. Did you ever heard the saying when a door close, a door open / quando si chiude una porta si apre un portone That is basically my life, and I feel that the door that I opened 17 years ago was a big one Happy Tuesday, I really you will have an amazing day full of love and positivity I love you all you are amazing ... . . . . #doors #italy #picoftheday #travel #virtually #mammamarziakitchen #mammamarziamemories #valtellina #porte #immigrant See more

Happy Monday, the beginning of another week and we are still in a Pandemic. Everything is still so uncertain and there is so much tension around. I wish you the best week ever full of love, Netflix, baking, cooking, reading and more. The best thing about 2020 is going to be my cookbook a collection of my family recipe full of love and some imperfections You can buy it www.mammamarzia.ca link in Bio. ... I not afraid to say that Im more scared of how this cookbook will be judged when is released to the public than COVID-19. There is so much expectations in this industry, everything seems so perfect and unreal and I went the opposite way: the heart way. Happy Monday at the end it will be just AMAZING . . . #cookbook #pandemic #cookbookauthor #mammamarziakitchen #monday #mondaymotivation #cookingwithmammamarzia #immigrant #story #imperfection

Apron on and Setting the table is a must in my family. I do not cook without an apron and I don’t eat without a tovaglia/ tablecloth. Growing up Italian means that you always, I repeat always, eat dinner or lunch at the table with a table cloth. The idea to eat without a cloth give me goosebumps. Please don’t judge me I grew up in Italy and since I was a little girl my job was to set up the table before dinner. I have lots of table cloth that my mom bought since I was a li...ttle girl for me when I would get married. If you set a table with a table cloth your table looks neater and so classy it doesn’t have to be expensive; I got one for every day at @homesensecanada for 14 dollar. And yes I have every day table cloth, Sunday Table cloth, Christmas Cloth and Festive Cloth. Today is Sunday, if you make something special for your family try to set up a table and wear an apron, it will be like wearing a crown One time someone said to me that Im too old style and this is Canada and we are equal. I know its true, Im old style and love tradition but wearing an apron doesn’t take anything away, it doesn’t mean that you are a slave in the kitchen actually its the opposite Do you wear apron? Do you set your table before dinner with a cloth? Happy Sunday . . . . #tablesetting #tablecloth #tovaglia #cookingwithmammamarzia #mammamarziakitchen #mammamarziatradition #apron #grembiule #tovaglia #classy #langley #foodblogger #cookbookauthor #cookbook #picoftheday #joy #queen #immigrant

Spoiler alert from my cookbook Im so proud to share this recipe with the world. This is my mom’s meat sauce, our absolutely favourite. I can see becoming favourite sauce in so many family but more exciting is that my family traditions will become yours too This is the sauce that I use for Lasagna, fettuccine, cannelloni or on a piece of bread. Do you want to know my favourite way to taste the sauce? I like to dip some bread in it and taste. Its truly the best wa...y, you could ask my daughter she is an expert on that When I was a kid I remember sneaking into the kitchen to dip the bread, it was so satisfying. My mom used to scream if she saw me and now I do the same with my daughter. Its risky to leave the pot unattended in my house Happy Sunday I love you all you are amazing . . . #ragu’ #bolognese #picoftheday #professionalpictures #familytraditions #italiantraditions #italianculture #cookingwithmammamarzia #mammamarziakitchen #langley #immigrant #italianwife

Lemon cookies so delicious, they literally melt in your mouth. The combination of the butter and the lemon will bring your palate to another level. I usually make this cookies for Christmas with my kids. They are easy to make and the kids will enjoy rolling out the little cookies. This is a great activity to do with your family on the weekend so you can build precious memories even during a Pandemic Please if you make the tag @bellacibo or #mammamarziakitchen The recip...e unfortunately is not on my cookbook but here you go for you just because you are amazing: 110 gr sugar 100 gr butter room temperature 1 egg The juice and zest of 1 lemon 270 gr flour 1 teaspoon of baking powder A sprinkle of love. Method: Beat sugar and butter until its creamy Add the egg and mix Add the lemon zest and lemon juice and mix again Add flour and baking powder and mix shaping a round dough. cover the dough with plastic wrap and put in fridge for 30 minutes After that shape your little cookies just grabbing a small piece and rolling out a small ball using 2 hands. Put them in a baking pan covered with parchment paper and bake in hot oven at 350 for 10/12 minutes Icing sugar on top when they are ready. . . . #baking #bakingqueen #christmasbaking #familyrecipe #mammamarziakitchen #mammamarziamemories #cookbookcookbookauthor #cookies #butter #langley #vancouver #pandemic #picoftheday

My Tik Tok video about Pastina Soup went viral and Im going to tell you why. First at all I would like to say that Im not a Tiktoker and I casually post just because we are on the pandemic and sometimes Im bored. Most of the time I don’t even know what Im doing. The pastina soup went viral and it got 119.2 k view, 10.5 k likes and 227 sweets comments. All the comments had one important thing in common: FOOD BRINGS BACK MEMORIES All the comments are from people that had s...omeone like nonna or mom making Pastina when they were sick, so sweet. I daily read the comments because Im one of those people. Making pastina soup bring me back to my childhood when my nonna Irma used to make it for me and my siblings. Her pastina soup had a special ingredient that all the nonna/ grandma have: unconditional Love and that is unforgettable It is so important to cook for your family, you build precious memories and those memories are going to fill up your soul one day. So let me tell you: this weekend cook with your family, do something unforgettable and tag #mammamarziamemories or #mammamarziakitchen Pastina soup for every Italian family has healing power, if you want my recipe my cookbook has a full page for it. Link in bio for pre-sale www.mammamarzia.ca Follow me on Tik Tok search mammamarzia . . . #pastina #mammamarziakitchen #mammamarziamemories #soup #pastina #cookbook #cookbookauthor #langley #vancouver #canada #soul #foodlover #foodie #foodiesofinstagram See more

Nine years ago I baked cookies and sold them at school craft fairs, it was so much fun. If you know me you know that I don’t like baking but, at that time I was helping out a friend with her craft fairs. I remember staying up late the night before the craft fair and baking Nutella Heart Cookies with my kids. At 11 pm they were eating Nutella cookies like like there is no tomorrow , we definitely build up sweets memories What I have learned from that experience is that b...aking is not my thing. My desserts came out beautifully and every craft fair we sold out but I m more creative so I LOVE cooking. Cooking is truly my passion especially cooking pasta Happy Thursday, I hope you liked my #throwbackthursday . . . #cookbook #cookbookauthor #italiancookbook #bakingqueen #entrepeneur #italianmom #mammamarziakitchen #makingmemories #

I found this old pictures of my in law from 1968 the day before they got married. My mother in law moved here end of November 1967, she had to live at some friends house until the wedding in January. She was not allowed to live in the same house with my father in law before the marriage I recently found a love letter that he sent her before she moved here and I have to say I m still speechless, I cried after I read it That letter handwritten from 1967 has so much love..., dream of a family and hope for a better life. I have so much respect for all the immigrants that left Italy and moved far away for a better life; back then they had no phone and no way to contact family, no English, no money but I hope for a great future. They all worked so hard for that, Italians are very well know for being hard worker. My father in law had 20 dollars in his pocket when he landed to Canada and had to work 2 jobs for quite a while to create a better future and he did a great job. He was so proud of his family and what he achieved in 54 years of hard work. Happy Wednesday . . . #storytime #immigrantofcanada #immigrantstories #cookbookauthor #cookbook #love #hope #family #italianfamily #picoftheday #vancouver #canada #mammamarziakitchen See more