The Pasta Playlist: music for kneading
Music for kneading pasta too to alleviate the boredom and make the job fly by. It works just as well for bread making.
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In Verona (missing Amy)
I first visited Verona thirty years ago. I was in Venice having lunch with an aunt and two cousins who I had never met before. During the memorable lunch, which you can read about here, it emerged that my eldest cousin, Silvia, sang in the chorus at the Arena di Verona—a well-preserved Roman amphitheater where a
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How to make pasta like a nonna!
The other day I gave a lesson on how to make fresh pasta and I suddenly realized that I’d never written about how to make it on the blog. So this post is designed to put that right. I must confess that I didn’t learn how to make fresh pasta from my ‘nonna’, Zia Rita.
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Pasta ‘ncasciata: Montalbano’s favourite
This post was inspired by my fellow blogger Vanessa who has a site I enjoy very much called Food in Books. It deals with the two things I love more than anything else: eating and reading. Vanessa scours the world’s literature looking for references to food and then she develops a recipe based on
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Quick guide to Italian ingredients: ‘Nduja
This article is about Calabria. ‘Nduja (pronouned ‘in-doo-ya’) is an incredibly spicy salame from the Calabrian village of Spìlinga. It’s made from pork mixed together with a high proportion of Calabrian chile (peperoncino), which gives it a bright red colour and fiery taste. It’s very soft which makes it easily spreadable on bread, which
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Lasagne bianche ai noci: lasagne with white ragù and walnuts (recipe)
White ragù—Italian meat sauce without tomatoes—is one of my all time favourite dishes. I learnt it as a teenager from my Italian step-grandmother in her kitchen in Venice. She was noted for her ragù and people were forever asking her how she made it but, of course, she wouldn’t tell. But one summer morning while
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