Fresh fava beans, also known as broad beans, are in season in May and June. They are delicious raw, dipped in sea salt, or cooked.
Category Archives: Pasta
Linguine with Melon
It is an especially fun to make the dish and have people guess what is in it.
Spaghetti alla Carbonara with Zucchini
There are many origin legends about the famous Roman dish Spaghetti alla Carbonara.
Recipes for: Linguine with Shrimp, Penne with Sausage and Ricotta, and Orange Salad.
Italian Pasta Sauce cooking class video by Giuliano Hazan. It includes the recipes for Linguine with a Pink Shrimp Sauce, Penne with Sausage and Ricotta, and an Orange, Cucumber, and Red Radish Salad.
Comfort in cooking Ragù alla Bolognese
We wanted to share one of our favorite comfort food recipes with you, Ragù alla Bolognese.
Tortelloni, a Love Offering
In our house, filled pasta is a dish to look forward to and, often made for celebrations. It isn’t as difficult as one might believe, but it takes time and patience and is well worth the effort. Soft pillows of pasta coated in a delicious tomato sauce, is the ultimate showing of love from a partner. Nothing can compare to eating food that is created with love and care from one’s companion.
Pasta alla Busara, Marcella Hazan’s Pasta with Lobster
The recipe we’ve chosen is Pasta alla Busara, from Marcella Cucina. It exemplifies Marcella’s unaffected style: wonderfully pure, simple flavors, which are easy to put together creating something magnificently delicious.
Potato Gnocchi are easier to make than you think
Many people are so intimidated by gnocchi that they never try making them. Our students learned that gnocchi are not heavy dumplings, rather they are buoyant bits of dough that float to the surface of boiling water. What causes them to be too gluey, tough, or heavy is either the wrong potato or too much flour. The secret to making good gnocchi is in using the right potato, which should neither be too waxy nor too starchy.
Fettuccine with Zucchini in a Saffron Cream Sauce and our new Ipad App
The secret of Fettuccine with Zucchini and Saffron is to cut the zucchini into sticks thin enough and cook them long enough to release their rich sweet flavor. In the app, Giuliano shows in his video how and why this works so well.
Spaghetti with Melon: A Luscious Summer Pasta
My mother-in-law, Marcella Hazan, started making this cantaloupe pasta dish at home and now Giuliano often makes it when we have friends over. Once it is cooked, the melon is mostly unrecognizable and it’s great fun seeing if people can guess what the sauce’s “secret” ingredient is. The freshness of the dish is soothing on a hot evening and takes full advantage of the bounty of summer.