The male flowers on a zucchini plant (or courgette plant if you’re from the UK) don’t actually produce zucchini’s, so they’re perfect for picking, dipping in batter, frying and covering with honey. Nothing goes to waste in this household. Here’s how you do it.
Pizza
2 JulLearn how to make home made pizza the traditional way, right in a home made pizza oven. Pizza Chef extraordinaire joins mum to share the secret recipe (ok, flour, water and salt) as well as how to make home made yeast, roasted peppers and a classic margarita. That’s amore!
Fresh Pasta
26 DecThis is the final piece of the pasta dish trilogy. We bottled the tomato sauce (‘Passata’), turned it into Pasta Sauce (‘Ragu’), and now it’s time to make the fresh egg pasta itself.
Pasta Sauce (Ragu)
18 SepWe bottled the tomato sauce, now it’s time to turn it into traditional Pasta Sauce. It’s chunky red meat goodness and it’s delicious!
Cured Pork Sausages (Salsicce)
20 AugIn this Masterclass, Antonio and Maria show us how to make cured pork sausages, or Salsicce. Never has raw meat, hung out to dry in the garage for two weeks, seemed so delicious.
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Tomato Sauce (Passata)
1 Aug
It’s Tomato Sauce Day. Antonio and Maria teach the traditional recipe for how to make 100 bottles of the good stuff!
BEWARE: There was a slightly unfortunate end to this video that wasn’t captured. After the camera stopped recording, the gas bottled exploded. Its a long story, but Antonio ended up in the emergency with two very burnt arms. Luckily it wasn’t too severe, and he’ll be right in a month or two, but it goes to show, be extra careful when dealing with fire.
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Welcome to Italian Masterclass
30 Jul
Mum and Dad with Tom and Alice
How things change. Last month I became a dad to two gorgeous twins, Tom and Alice. And all of a sudden I found myself craving more information about my heritage so that I could teach it to them. I find myself talking Italian more (mia principessa!) and eating more of mum’s giardiniera (pickled vegetables). Then I realised no much how hard I might try, there would be no better teacher than my own Mum and Dad.
This site aims to bridge the lives of my parents in their 70s with my children, not yet 2 months old. It’s an Italian Masterclass for them, as taught by their grandparents.
And so, the class bell has just rung. Students, sta attenzione!
Adrian
July 2011
Italian Masterclass 