While we're in Italy, I have been on a mission to attempt making all sorts of traditional Italian dishes--especially baked goods. Most of our experiments have actually ended up involving pasta (as you may have gathered from previous posts), but there has been some branching out to things like schiacciata con uva. Naturally last year at Christmas time we had to attempt panettone (in spite of the small size of our kitchen). The first task, of course, was to find a recipe. Google will pop up all kinds of things when you search for Panettone, but I wanted to make sure I used a good and "authentic" recipe, so I asked Antonella at Buca del vino for advice (as we usually do when experimenting with Italian food). Marco said making panettone would be impossible (obviously, I had to interpret this response as a challenge), but Antonella sent me to A casa di ross, an Italian food blog full of many excellent recipes--both traditional and non.
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Sunday, December 26, 2010
Adventures with panettone
While we're in Italy, I have been on a mission to attempt making all sorts of traditional Italian dishes--especially baked goods. Most of our experiments have actually ended up involving pasta (as you may have gathered from previous posts), but there has been some branching out to things like schiacciata con uva. Naturally last year at Christmas time we had to attempt panettone (in spite of the small size of our kitchen). The first task, of course, was to find a recipe. Google will pop up all kinds of things when you search for Panettone, but I wanted to make sure I used a good and "authentic" recipe, so I asked Antonella at Buca del vino for advice (as we usually do when experimenting with Italian food). Marco said making panettone would be impossible (obviously, I had to interpret this response as a challenge), but Antonella sent me to A casa di ross, an Italian food blog full of many excellent recipes--both traditional and non.
Sunday, November 7, 2010
Fall in Florence—Schiacciata con uva
A few weeks ago—right at the start of grape harvest—one of our friends showed up at choir rehearsal with a large basket of grapes from the trellis on her back terrace. They sat patiently in the corner during rehearsal, me eying them from time to time hoping there was a chance we might get to nibble on a few before going home. Naturally when the singing was done and the chairs being put away, a small group gathered around the grapes, and being curious as to why exactly it was they showed up in the first place, I wandered over to inquire as to their purpose. “They’re for making schiacciata con uva,” I’m told. “Ooh!” I say, enthusiastically. I had just been thinking about attempting this grape foccaccia concoction that is a typical and well loved Florentine fall dessert, available only around harvest time because according to the Tuscans it must be made with wine grapes. “Do you want to try making some?” asks one of our friends. “Here, take a bunch home.” Yay! And so I became one of the lucky people sent home with a large bag of freshly picked wine grapes.
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