Dry pasta

It doesn’t matter that the origin of pasta is to be found in ancient Rome with the “lagane” (the current lasagna), or in Arab Sicily with the “triyah” that were exported to many places even by ships and that the Arab geographer Edrisi in 1154 described it as “a meal of flour in the formContinueContinue reading “Dry pasta”

Page #3 – About meatballs and donkeys

“Do not think for a moment that I would be so pretentious as to tell you how to make meatballs. This is a dish that everyone knows how to make, beginning with the jackass, which was perhaps the first to provide the model for the meatball for the human race.”.Pellegrino Artusi, “Science in the KitchenContinueContinue reading “Page #3 – About meatballs and donkeys”

Polpette al sugo || Meatballs in tomato sauce

Ingredients: For the meatballs: 750 gr beef mince 15/20 % fat1 big or 2 small eggs50 gr. breadcrumb100 ml milk50 gr. grated pecorino cheese or parmigiano cheese1 finely chopped garlic clovea sprig of finely chopped flat leaf parsleysaltground black pepper For the sauce: 3 spoons of evo oil½ glass of dry wine (white or red)1ContinueContinue reading “Polpette al sugo || Meatballs in tomato sauce”