There are many good reasons to make your own fresh pasta instead of buying it ready-made from the shop.
… February, Keep Calm and Make Pasta Fresca… Open Celery!
Can you imagine how a twirling Italian spaghetti pasta, nested on a fork, will lead to a “spaghetti kiss” with your loved one… Have you ever heard of spaghetti kiss? Haven’t you!
There are many good reasons to make your own fresh pasta instead of buying it ready-made from the shop.
… February, Keep Calm and Make Pasta Fresca… Open Celery!
Ladies and gentlemen, this is the Italian recipe you need to get the party started! We are talking “pasta al forno” here with our Baked Conchiglioni with Plant-Based Pumpkin Ragout… and is also gluten-free 🥳
… Baked Conchiglioni with Plant-Based Pumpkin Ragout
From our Italian Lunch Box series, and for all the #PastaLovers out there, here’s an Ode to stuffed pasta: the Sardinian Culurgiones.
… Ode to Stuffed Pasta: the Sardinian Culurgiones
Today – for the Italian Lunch Box – we’d like to talk about some very comforting fresh pasta: the “Chiusoni galluresi” [kiu-sò-ni gal-lù-re-si], a type of artisanal handmade dumplings typical of Gallura (Italy), where our “Traveling Chef Simona” is now.
… Fresh Pasta: the Chiusoni Galluresi
Here it is, the watershed that – following our Italian tradition – inexorably separate the “before and afterwards” of each year: we’re talking about Ferragosto and… the bygone flour.
… Ferragosto and… the Bygone Flour
It’s a Pasta Lover Recipe: “Rintrocilo Pasta”. Pasta making in Abruzzo it’s a deliciously beloved heritage, prepared with the purest mountain springs water, by the expert hands of local families...
… Pasta Lover: “Rintrocilo Pasta”
In Sara’s dishes local produce (from Abruzzi Region) are always at the center of her recipes. Here’s one of them: the Altino Sweet Pepper, a key ingredient in her Red Spaghetti alla Chitarra, also a typical pasta from the Italian Central-Eastern Region.
… Altino Sweet Peppers and Sara’s Guitar Pasta
Cheers to “The Scrippelle”: Savory Crêpes Surprise… On December 25th, the Christmas broth is a must-eat dish on the Abruzzo tables. It takes a long time to prepare, it requires many ingredients, but you can make it ahead of time.
… Italian Lunch: Box: The Scrippelle (Savory Crêpes)
For all the Pasta Lovers out there, today I’d like to introduce you to Cappellacci pasta.
… Pasta Lover on Cappellacci
You don’t need to be a musician to enjoy “spaghetti alla chitarra” [chitarra, pronounced key-tahr-rah, is the Italian word for guitar].
… Pasta Lover: “Spaghetti alla Chitarra” that Strikes The Right Chord