What happens when your purpose drives away?  Our role as a parent has instantly changed.....and I am not really sure how to deal with this!

Seems like people are in one camp or the other.  When your last child leaves the nest, parents are either so happy to have the kids out of the house…..or they are crying every day.  I am in the latter bucket!  The change is so huge and monumental, it is kicking my butt!  

The day my last child left for college broke me in ways I never expected.  Tissued required!  What camp are you in?   
Comment here or on my socials...find your favorite, I am on all of them:

https://linktr.ee/giasitaliankitchen

My daughter gave me this little "Olive dude" before she left….how sweet is that!  And now it sits in the Iowa State Cyclone Lego.

Visit our YouTube channel to see dozens of our cooking episodes.

Check out our website for delicious recipes, upcoming events, and more!

We are back from Italy, and want to share all of the good nuggets with you!

Nona and I have been recording some podcasts about our trip, with great info about the cities we visited, the transportation that we took, and of course the FOOD.  Today, let's talk about the Amalfi Coast and nearby towns.

We visited several cities on and around the Amalfi Coast (Naples, Salerno, Amalfi town, Positano, and Herculaneum), then headed to Sicily (Catania, Taormina, Acireale, Aci Trezza, and Mt. Etna).  What a fabulous trip with so much to share with you!

I have also been posting several 60-second videos of our travels, so please check those out.

YT:  http://www.youtube.com/@giasitaliankitchen9079

FB:  https://www.facebook.com/giasitaliankitchen/

IG: https://www.instagram.com/giasitaliankitchen/

I hope you will go to my socials and subscribe, follow, like, subscribe, and share....to help me grow! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!   

You can go here to see all of them:   https://linktr.ee/giasitaliankitchen

Want a unique cooking experience and learn how to cook authentic Italian dishes???    Let's schedule your private dinner party experience or employee teambuilding experience today!!!!

Learn more about GIK:  https://giasitaliankitchen.biz

Contact me:  [email protected]

Visit our YouTube channel to see dozens of our cooking episodes.

Check out our website for delicious recipes, upcoming events, and more!

We are back from Italy, and want to share all of the good nuggets with you!

Nona and I have been recording some podcasts about our trip, with great info about the cities we visited, the transportation that we took, and of course the FOOD.

In the meantime, I have been posting several 60-second videos of our travels, so please check those out....and I will publish the podcasts in the coming weeks.

YT:  http://www.youtube.com/@giasitaliankitchen9079

FB:  https://www.facebook.com/giasitaliankitchen/

IG: https://www.instagram.com/giasitaliankitchen/

I hope you will go to my socials and subscribe, follow, like, subscribe, and share....to help me grow! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!   You can go here to see all of them:   https://linktr.ee/giasitaliankitchen

Learn more about GIK:  https://giasitaliankitchen.biz

Visit our YouTube channel to see dozens of our cooking episodes.

Check out our website for delicious recipes, upcoming events, and more!

We recently went to Italy and I thought it would be helpful to brainstorm with you on what to PACK!  

I review in detail the clothes I brought, the suitcase, what I put in my carryon, etc....for a seamless overseas travel experience! 

Questions?   Email me [email protected] 

In the coming weeks, I will post VIDEOS of our travels through the Amalfi Coast and Sicily for your enjoyment…maybe you will plan a trip in the future!

All of my links are here…please follow, share, comment, like: https://linktr.ee/giasitaliankitchen

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Visit our YouTube channel to see dozens of our cooking episodes.

Check out our website for delicious recipes, upcoming events, and more!

I interviewed the New York Times bestselling author ADRIANA TRIGIANI!!!  YEP it’s true!   She is so awesome and down to earth!  I can't wait for you to meet her!  Her book release is July 8, 2025.....preorder your copy at a local bookstore today!  If you are in Eastern Iowa, Swamp Fox Bookstore can order you a copy!

Watch the full interview, and short clips, on my YT channel:  https://youtu.be/EKvL9WgFgrc

All of my links are here:  https://linktr.ee/giasitaliankitchen 

Adriana Trigiani is The New York Times bestselling author of twenty books in fiction and nonfiction. She has been published in 38 countries around the world. She wrote the blockbuster The Shoemaker’s Wife, the Big Stone Gap series, the Valentine trilogy and Lucia, Lucia...to name a few.

Adriana’s latest novel, The View from Lake Como, hits shelves July 8th, 2025. Publisher’s Weekly’s “Best Book of Summer 2025”, this is the story of Jess Capodimonte Baratta, a recently divorced, dutiful daughter, living in her parents’ basement. When an unexpected loss sends her to her ancestral home of Carrara, Italy where Jess learns to rebuild her life and the house that goes with it.
Visit her website at www.adrianatrigiani.com 

Learn more about us…all of our socials here:    https://linktr.ee/giasitaliankitchen

Please follow, like, comment, subscribe....and all those social things, to help me grow!

How about a dinner with friends and family? 

Imagine a unique cooking experience where you could be the hero! We will create memories for friends & family through private dinner parties (virtually or in person) & employer teambuilding events via Italian cooking experiences. You select a custom menu, I provide the instruction! 

My full menu can be found on my website: https://giasitaliankitchen.biz  

BOOK private cooking experience, virtually or in-person, for a fun and unique experience that you will all absolutely love! 

• Family across the country? Create memories with the kids and grandchildren to laugh while you cook with me with a virtual class. 
• Girlfriends in 6 different states? Craving a virtual cooking experience and happy hour, let’s get cooking! 
• Friends or family want a private dinner party in-person? 
• I can come to your or provide a local kitchen space. 

Learn more about us…all of our socials here:    https://linktr.ee/giasitaliankitchen

Visit our YouTube channel to see dozens of our cooking episodes.

Check out our website for delicious recipes, upcoming events, and more!

YEP it’s true!   She is so awesome and down to earth!  I can't wait for you to meet her!  Full video and podcast to be released the first week of July, just ahead of her book release!

All of my links are here:  https://linktr.ee/giasitaliankitchen 

Watch on social or listen on my podcast:  https://www.buzzsprout.com/1876610 or just search for Gia’s Italian Kitchen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, etc.

Adriana Trigiani is The New York Times bestselling author of twenty books in fiction and nonfiction. She has been published in 38 countries around the world. She wrote the blockbuster The Shoemaker’s Wife, the Big Stone Gap series, the Valentine trilogy and Lucia, Lucia...to name a few.

Adriana’s latest novel, The View from Lake Como, hits shelves July 8th, 2025. Publisher’s Weekly’s “Best Book of Summer 2025”, this is the story of Jess Capodimonte Baratta, a recently divorced, dutiful daughter, living in her parents’ basement. When an unexpected loss sends her to her ancestral home of Carrara, Italy where Jess learns to rebuild her life and the house that goes with it. 

Visit her website at www.adrianatrigiani.com  

Visit our YouTube channel to see dozens of our cooking episodes.

Check out our website for delicious recipes, upcoming events, and more!

FREAKING OUT!!!!!

I am going to interview the New York Times bestselling author ADRIANA TRIGIANI next week!!!  YEP it’s true!

Be on the lookout on my podcast and all social medias at the beginning of July when I release the interview!

All of my links are here:  https://linktr.ee/giasitaliankitchen 

Watch on social or listen on my podcast:  https://www.buzzsprout.com/1876610 or just search for Gia’s Italian Kitchen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, etc.

Adriana Trigiani is The New York Times bestselling author of twenty books in fiction and nonfiction. She has been published in 38 countries around the world. She wrote the blockbuster The Shoemaker’s Wife, the Big Stone Gap series, the Valentine trilogy and Lucia, Lucia...to name a few.

Adriana’s latest novel, The View from Lake Como, hits shelves July 8th, 2025. Publisher’s Weekly’s “Best Book of Summer 2025”, this is the story of Jess Capodimonte Baratta, a recently divorced, dutiful daughter, living in her parents’ basement. When an unexpected loss sends her to her ancestral home of Carrara, Italy where Jess learns to rebuild her life and the house that goes with it. 

Visit her website at www.adrianatrigiani.com  

DO YOU MISS YOUR FAMILY AND FRIENDS?
Imagine a unique private group cooking experience where you could be the hero!  We will create memories for friends & family through private dinner parties (virtually or in person) & employer teambuilding events via Italian cooking experiences.   You select a custom menu, I provide the instruction!  

My full menu can be found on my website: https://giasitaliankitchen.biz 

BOOK private cooking experience, virtually or in-person, for a fun and unique gift that all will absolutely love!  

• Family across the country? Create memories with the kids and grandchildren to laugh while you cook with me with a virtual class. 

• Girlfriends in 6 different states? Craving a virtual cooking experience and happy hour, let’s get cooking! 

• Friends or family want a private dinner party in-person?  I can come to your or provide a local

Visit our YouTube channel to see dozens of our cooking episodes.

Check out our website for delicious recipes, upcoming events, and more!

I am bringing Italian cooking to hungry foodies, to cancer patients, libraries, and beyond!  Did you know that Gia's Italian Kitchen is getting around?

Hope to see you soon!

https://www.thebrickkitchenstore.com/upcoming-classes.htm

https://marionpubliclibrary.libnet.info/events?

DO YOU MISS YOUR FAMILY AND FRIENDS?
Imagine a unique private group cooking experience where you could be the hero!  We will create memories for friends & family through private dinner parties (virtually or in person) & employer teambuilding events via Italian cooking experiences.   You select a custom menu, I provide the instruction!  

My full menu can be found on my website: https://giasitaliankitchen.biz 

BOOK private cooking experience, virtually or in-person, for a fun and unique gift that all will absolutely love!  

• Family across the country? Create memories with the kids and grandchildren to laugh while you cook with me with a virtual class. 

• Girlfriends in 6 different states? Craving a virtual cooking experience and happy hour, let’s get cooking! 

• Friends or family want a private dinner party in-person?  I can come to your or provide a local kitchen space.  

Learn more about us…all of our socials here: https://linktr.ee/giasitaliankitchen 

Visit our YouTube channel to see dozens of our cooking episodes.

Check out our website for delicious recipes, upcoming events, and more!

LET'S GET COOKING!

Virtual folks can watch LIVE on my Facebook, YouTube, or IG: https://www.facebook.com/giasitaliankitchen/ OR

http://www.youtube.com/@giasitaliankitchen9079  OR

https://www.instagram.com/giasitaliankitchen/ 

If you want the grocery list ahead of time and are going to cook at home with me, simply send me an email at [email protected]

IN PERSON folks, you can register on the library site (groceries will be provided): https://marionpubliclibrary.libnet.info/events

Support local and preorder your copy of Super Italian by Giada:

https://swampfoxbookstore.com/item/wCIDqQu6pg8QGRKxd6hJlQ

We will be making two DELICIOUS DISHES:

1 - Calabrian Chili Garlic Oil

2 - Casarecce with Sicilian Pesto and Shrimp

Visit our YouTube channel to see dozens of our cooking episodes.

Check out our website for delicious recipes, upcoming events, and more!

Have you watched any of my cookbook challenges? I take a favorite cookbook and test a few recipes (and dress up a little like the featured book). I started with Audrey at Home (a cookbook/memoir written by Luca Dotti, Audrey Hepburn's son). This was followed by Stanley Tucci and Ida Garten. How fun is that??!!

GIADA, one of my all-time favorites, has a new cookbook and I am going to test out a few LIVE at the Marion Library FREE on Thursday, May 15 at 6pm CST.

Virtual folks can watch LIVE on my Facebook or YouTube. https://www.facebook.com/giasitaliankitchen/ OR
http://www.youtube.com/@giasitaliankitchen9079

If you want the grocery list ahead of time and are going to cook at home with me, simply send me an email at [email protected]

IN PERSON folks, you can register on the library site (groceries will be provided): https://marionpubliclibrary.libnet.info/events

Support local and preorder your copy of Super Italian by Giada:
https://swampfoxbookstore.com/item/wCIDqQu6pg8QGRKxd6hJlQ

We will be making two DELICIOUS DISHES:
1 - Calabrian Chili Garlic Oil
2 - Casarecce with Sicilian Pesto and Shrimp

Visit our YouTube channel to see dozens of our cooking episodes.

Check out our website for delicious recipes, upcoming events, and more!