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This looks and sounds SO tasty! - labradors - 02-16-2011 One of the great shows on the El Gourmet channel is Villa Della Pasta. The host, Donato di Santis, was born in Milan, worked in a number of places (including having been Gianni Versace's personal chef) and moved to Argentina (home of El gourmet) ten years ago. He's one of the channel's most popular chefs and has done a number of shows for them. On Villa Della Pasta, Donato shows how to make a lot of different types of pasta from scratch, using authentic and traditional methods, tools and recipes. The most recent episode was for a type of pasta of which I had never heard before, but turns out to be a VERY old tradition in and around Genoa: Corzetti. Corzetti are discs of pasta traditionally made with a Corzetti stamp. Once the pasta dough has been rolled out to be very thin, the bottom of the base of the stamp is used to cut out discs of pasta in the same manner as one would use a cookie cutter. Afterwards, each disc is placed onto the top of the base. Next, the top of the stamp is placed on top of the disc. When the top is pressed down, it imprints a design (something artistic, a monogram or a family crest) into the pasta disc which improves not only the appearance of the pasta, but also its ability to hold sauce. Here's the final dish he prepared, along with the translated recipe. Corzetti in Genovese Pesto-Mascarpone Sauce Makes 4 servings Ingredients: For the Pasta:
For the pasta:
Of course, I'll have to use the fork method, but this recipe is definitely going onto my to-make list. Re: This looks and sounds SO tasty! - esgunn - 02-16-2011 Neat idea! I just want to be in that warm sunny garden eating pasta!! OH, and drinking wine! Re: This looks and sounds SO tasty! - cjs - 02-16-2011 Seems like I've seen those 'discs' of pasta with a sheaf of wheat imprinted, but can't remember where or when. I'm with Erin, would love to be in the garden right now! I've done similar sauce but have not added the mascarpone, hmmmm. sounds delicious Re: This looks and sounds SO tasty! - Lorraine - 02-16-2011 What a neat idea, and the sauce sounds great. Re: This looks and sounds SO tasty! - DFen911 - 02-16-2011 I'm just enthralled with the first image I could be eating a booger and be happy if I were there But the recipe does sound very tasty indeed. Re: This looks and sounds SO tasty! - Gourmet_Mom - 02-16-2011 Oh my! I'm glad I had swallowed that sip of wine in time! Denise, you're hilarious! I agree on the garden...what a lovely place. Like Jean, I have a recipe similar to this, but no marscapone. The kids call it swamp pasta...LOL! It's one of their favorites. Sometimes I'll double the recipe and add garlicy chicken cut up in it. I'll have to try it with some marscapone. Sounds yummy! Re: This looks and sounds SO tasty! - foodfiend - 02-16-2011 Yum. Soooo, who's going to make this first?!?!? |