The pastas, the instruction, the step by step photographs…the overall feel of the book – stunning.
The book starts out with Part One — How to Make Pasta Dough and How to Cook the Pasta, Part Two The Recipes which are broken down by season. I have three pages of notes of recipes that I want to try – truthfully all the recipes are going to be attempted by me.
I have been on a real Italian kick lately – not the tomato, cheese and pasta Italian dishes that all the American Italian restaurants provide – but the more rustic true Italian dishes that you find in Extra Virgin by Gabriele Corcas and Debi Mazar or in this wonderful book.
With this book – I know I can make show stopping pasta dishes – or least that is my goal soon. Some of the recipes include — tomato farfalle with chicken polpettine with roasted peppers and basil, black pepper tagliatelle with mussels, lardo and corn, ricotta and tomato tortelletti in brodo, corn and crescenza cappelltti with bitter honey, pumpkin tortelloni with sage and pumpkin seeds, celery root tortelli with brown butter balsamico and walnuts (this photo WOW), pici with vin santo-braised squab pancetta and cabbage, toasted faro garganelli with short ribs, hazelnuts and radicchio, tagliarini with braised hen, lime and pistachio, oxtail and rosemary lasagna with spigarello and fresh horseradish, corzetti with sausage clams and fennel, whole wheat campanelle with anise braised pork and chard…goat’s milk ricotta, stradette with leeks and fava beans, lemon farfalle with spring pea ragu, garganelli with prosciutto and peas (another WOW photo).
I was really blown away by this book.
I’m editing this post to include that I made the egg dough pasta (so easy and delicious) and the Heirloom Tomato Sauce (with tomatoes from my garden) on page 52 last evening – my husband and son were raving. So proud of myself.
Blogging for Books provided this book to me for review. All opinions are my own. I’m giving away a copy of this book over at The Cookbook Junkies here.
Looks like this cookbook is right up my alley. I would like to start making my own pasta. The recipes that go with the pasta sound incredible.