I just spent over two weeks in Tuscany and loved every minute, enjoying it's beauty and delicious food. Pinch me! For the last several days, my students and I have been on a culinary journey - taking in the gorgeous Tuscan landscape, and incredible flavors of this food and wine paradise. I wish you were here us! We're staying at a beautiful villa, located just outside of Lucca and surrounded by olive trees and rolling green hillsides. Between visits to incredible wineries and exploring the outdoor fruit and vegetable markets, we've been cooking...a lot!
We prepared my favorite picnic meal, pork tenderloin infused with fennel pollen and roasted inside a baguette and served it with wilted spinach with lemon and pine nuts. We made spinach and ricotta ravioli and chianti poached pears with spiced zabaglione for dessert. Once they got the hang of it, the class loved rolling and stuffing the fresh egg pasta to make ravioli. The kitchen at our villa has a wood oven for making the best pizza crusts and after at least 25 visits to Italy, I've learned some new tricks!
You would love it here and I promise to share more recipes and tips with you soon. Maybe you can join me in San Francisco for a Pizza and Pasta Weekend Cooking Class? We'll create pizza and top them with homemade marinara and spices sausage, or a pizza topped with arugula salad and Prosciutto di Parma! With a few tips, you'll see how easy it can be to make fresh pasta dough at home. Come spend the weekend in San Francisco and cook with me! I promise that after two days of cooking in my studio kitchen you'll be ready to go home and impress your friends and family with homemade pizzas and pasta.
Buon Appetito!
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