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…
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Thanks for that post brought back some memories.
Yep. I have one recipe that says “garlic” and another that says “handful” as if you are just supposed to know how much that is by looking.
Pasta doilies—how cute!
Now that is SO COOL! I haven’t watched any of the videos yet, but just looking at all the thumbnails of the grannies showing off their wonderful dishes just warms my heart.
I just sent the link to my family. My wife loves pasta and our oldest daughter studied for a half year in Italy in high school.
I think you mean the zero gravity waste disposal system test, and I believe her recipe (now mine) has the correct amount of breadcrumbs.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QVcSyZznXEs
I should have also mentioned that when any of her children went to visit her, the most requested meal of hers was her meatloaf. How many families do you know where meatloaf is the favorite meal from all of the kids? (There were 5 of them.) She is still with us, but doesn’t cook from scratch anymore. Now I make the meatloaf for her on visits. It is pretty darn good, and I think rivals any homestyle-cooking restaurant’s meatloaf.
My Mom made the best apple cake, and she’s gone. None of us have the recipe. We have her cookbooks but none of them turn out like hers did. It’s a tragedy of epic proportions. So I share in your misery.
That’s how I do it
I had a few close relatives, uncles and aunts, with names like Rosa, Mary, Paul and Peter. Remember them fondly. So did many of my Italian friends in the Bronx. Must be an Italian thing.
I have a medical doctor friend of Italian extraction who went back to Rome to med school. He told of dining at Alfredo’s, where the Alfredo pasta sauce originated. He says that the herbs and spices in Italian cooking are important of course. But what makes the pasta so wonderful is the heirloom flour, made from heirloom grains, that make it so swooningly delicious. It’s very rare to find that over here.
I bought a few stamps (an owl in particular)and some other pasta gadgets from Bill Anderson who works through Instagram.
These are the links I had noted, he makes many different kinds of boards for rolling ridged pasta & imprints.
His home page is https://www.instagram.com/wooden_essentials/.
He makes to order & you can mix/match motifs etc.
Bumble bee https://www.instagram.com/p/BsRnCtgBZoQ/
scallops https://www.instagram.com/p/BLumWYWhQTF/
https://www.instagram.com/p/B9m_pCNhmSw/
or https://www.instagram.com/p/B3NEnQMBJeR/ ;
The pizza peels I saw were two woods https://www.instagram.com/p/B7nHYzvBd7V/
Sharing meatloaf recipes is always good...
Meatloaf is great! None alike, but all are wonderful!
That link is a good one and those recipes look amazing...Thanks for posting...
I’m IBM (Italian By Marriage...Anyone who marries an Italian girl learns what that means) and looking forward to trying some of the dishes...
My niece is a chef trained in Italy...Traditional Italian dishes are her specialty, and I forwarded the link...Good to preserve the old knowledge before it’s lost...
I was only in Italy for like 48 hrs and was not impressed by the food in Rome, but the girls were stunning.
France was the other way around.
Rome is the most overrated city I’ve ever been to.
They eat bats nipples there ;)
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