Hand made durum wheat pasta from Puglia Italy
Today I really needed some food therapy! After a couple of scary days with a bit of temperature (that now is gone), I just decided I needed to make something relaxing with my hands! So I made handmade potato gnocchi! They are very easy and so much fun to [...]
Today was market day in Lecce! So I went to the market (the one where locals go) and met my producer friends who gave me their super sweet tomatoes, basil plants, dried oregano, broccoli rabe and delicious cacioricotta cheese. Therefore, with all these beautiful ingredients I decide to make handmade [...]
This is the beginning of a series where we take you directly into our Cooking School in Puglia and teach you how to make some of the best recipes from Puglia. Today we are making the real cavatelli pasta from Puglia Italy. We will be using with durum wheat semolina [...]
There is no better way to start the day than to wake up and find out that the weather outside is beautiful and sunny (65° F!)! So I and Marika went to closest beach in Lecce, where the Sunday farmers market takes place. It was a real feast with all those colorful [...]
What a fun day today! My sister and I got together and made fresh orecchiette pasta! Orecchiette pasta is the typical pasta course we have on a Sunday lunch in Puglia. We started making the orecchiette at 9am so that the pasta had enough time to dry before lunch In [...]
