I forgot to mention that at the Paolo Sarpi street fair we picked up a bag of 'cocoa' flavoured pasta. It's brown, as you would expect and is real pasta, not just chocolate dressed up to look like pasta.We have not tried it yet, but apparently it goes very will with 'salsa di noci', which I … [Read more...]
From Pasta Hell to Pasta Heaven
February 20, 2006 By Leave a Comment
We had friends round for lunch and being in Italy, we kicked off with pasta. Nothing unusual there, you may think. Well, there was something unusual. This was perfect pasta!Up to now, I have never really appreciated fresh pasta. If you cook it for the recommended time it often comes … [Read more...]
Lentils and Cotechino
January 3, 2006 By 6 Comments
In Italy the traditional end of year meal consists of lentils and a meat like substance which goes by the name of cotechino and, by all accounts, the best cotechino comes from Modena (the place Ferraris come from too, if you did not already know).Anyway, cotechino is actually meat which comes … [Read more...]
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