Posted on 03/28/2021 5:59:15 AM PDT by mylife
Pasta makes everything better. This we know. But in the ancient villages of Sardinia, where the art of handmade pasta is practically a sacred ritual, there are ancestral, mouth-watering secrets that even the finest fettuccine can’t hold a candle to. We’re talking about the most beautiful and intricate shapes you’ve never seen; braided, stretched, twisted and crocheted using mesmerising bygone techniques. Did you know there’s only three women who still make one of the rarest pasta on earth? These are the disappearing recipes of Italian elders, passed down for generations by Sardinian and Italian women (and maybe a few men too!)
solated from the modern world, they rely on family to preserve and pass on the delicate and laborious techniques, but with a mass exodus of young people moving to cities and abroad for work, these recipes may very well disappear entirely. Enter Vicky Bennison, who for the last few years, has been inviting Youtube viewers into the lost world of Pasta Grannies. Aside from salivating over images of the most gorgeous pasta, meeting these loveable and legendary ‘nonne’ might just be the cure to all your woes. We hope you’re hungry…
(Excerpt) Read more at messynessychic.com ...
“Yes I would fill them, not just dump cannellini beans on them.”
Pictured are pine nuts. Creamy and scrumptious.
PFL
” In Italy it is still being passed down from mother to daughter.”
Have talked to US soldiers who were part of the NATO Kosovo occupation. US and French troops had good supplies of food but everybody tried to get someone from an Italian unit to cook it. They had learned from Mama’s or Grandma’s kitchen.
Got to look at those on YouTube... The DeplorableAmerican Pasta Company... Momma Mia...
Hey thanks for the link.
Grandma Rose used to make home made pasta every weekend in Brooklyn in Bay Ridge.
She was in her 80s in the ‘70s :)
Man could she cook.
I remember being over there one day and her sister, my Aunt Mary, got busted by cops for bookmaking along with her 2 sons and boy was she mad.
She kept saying “they won’t let you make a living in this country!” :)
Gorgeous! Hoo-boy a new site to eat up my time. hahahaha
I’ve been into this one lately, this woman is good.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCIix6MklfJFywa_36iDj8Sw
Looks yummy!
You kidding? Chef Boyardee could stamp these out by the thousands.
“Because it reminds you of Grammer?”
Not really. I never knew either of my Grandmas. It’s just a homey, comfortable pic. Kind of an earlier version of June Cleaver. Doing the housework. Wearing the jewelry. Love in her eyes.
Yer right dems pine nuts.
I feel like a fazol...
Sicilian with a fully automatic pasta knife!
COWER IN PLACE!!!
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“That scene would make a nice oil painting for a talented artist.
Her pose has a regal look to it.
Grandma is Queen of the Kitchen, and she wears a crown of snow white hair.”
And today’s feminists would absolutely hate that and couldn’t wait to “cancel” her. How dare do they show a woman enjoying herself in the kitchen?
Si, fusilato!!
Wait till they notice the Rosary around her neck with a Gold Crucifix!
Happy that the Keto queens can’t enjoy this.
Not a rosary around her neck — thank heavens; it’s a heavy gold chain.
Make sure you buy the tiny white Italian ones, more expensive than the Chinese ones, which are from a different tree and kill your sense of taste.
Enjoy. I'm about to go downstairs and make some rustic pasta now, a mix of all-purpose flour and semolina, rolled out flat to thin it then rolled up into a tube and cut with a knife so it ends up in strands like long noodles. No pasta roller necessary and it tastes wonderful.
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