One of Italy’s most famous sauce, Amatriciana, originated in Amatrice, a small town in Lazio famous for the pasta dish, made using guanciale. The 50th anniversary sagra, food festival, was to be held this weekend. Amatrice no longer exists. Hopefully it can be rebuilt. Usually they move the towns. The earthquake on August 24th leveled…
Amatriciana Sauce- My Way
I don’t want to start any fights, so up front just let me say that this is NOT the traditional way they make Amatriciana sauce in the town of Amatrice or in Rome. But in Italy, there are as many versions of recipes as there are cooks.If you go and look back at the original…
Charcutepalooza- February- Salt Cure
do you charcutepalooza? When they announed that the February project was the salt cure, perhaps I went a little wild. I did pancetta, the stesa style, which is most typical in Florence for cooking with. Then the bacon, i did not use pink salt, but did the sugar cure which was in the…