It's a very special pasta, even for Italians. You can find it in a small area, Lunigiana, between Liguria and Toscana. I know them very well since I was little because, driving back from Tuscany, after the summer spent at my aunt house, we would always stop and buy a couple of Testaroli to take home. Since I cannot find them here and my family is in Tuscany at the moment, I decided to try to cook them and somehow feel there with them. This will be the dish for our next IG cla

This pasta is typical from Val d'Orcia, Tuscany. It's a fresh homemade pasta, similar to thick spaghetti, made with flour and water. Very approachable even if you have never made homemade pasta, you don't need any tool to make it and it is very fun, perfect to cook with your kids. I love simple things, that's why my favourite version is with tomato sauce. They are very good also with Pesto but you can really personalize the recipe as you like. The texture is the best part, in

It was a long time I didn't prepare Ravioli. I finally got the KitchenAid pasta roller attachment so it was time. This made a huge difference, so much easier compared to my manual Imperia pasta roller (that I left in Italy as too heavy). I forgot how nice it is making them, and how hard... I completely lost my dexterity (manualita'). By the end I made some nice ones at least. These specific ones with pumpkin are from Mantova area (2 hours from Milan) and they call them Tortel

I bought so many radishes yesterday and had so many leaves that I decided to try to make a pesto with them. I loved it! I will make a lot of it and freeze my mini pesto. Jace won’t be very happy as he hates pesto😂 I do traditional pesto with a mortar but in this case the leaves were big and not as soft as the basil ones so I used a mixer. I didn’t weight ingredients so I can’t give a very precise recipe but you can have an idea and adjust it to your taste. 2 SERVINGS: 2 cups

It looks easy but is not. Simple recipes are the most difficult to cook. In this one the perfect balance between each ingredient is key and you have to be quick enough to keep the Pecorino creamy and smooth. 2 SERVINGS: 200g Spaghetti/Bucatini/Rigatoni (I used Benedetto Cavalieri Pasta I brought from home but there is Pasta Gentile at Fresh Market that is amazing too) 100g shredded Pecorino Romano 6g Black Pepper Salt INSTRUCTIONS: Toast the pepper in a pan medium heat 3/4' G