Tag: Pasta

• Cooking with Mamma

  

  Want to learn how to cook real authentic Puglian food? Who best to teach you than an Italian Mamma who has learnt the family secret recipes which have been handed down from Mamma to daughter for generations. Check out our YouTube video of Cooking with Mamma Puglian food is considered ‘cucina povera‘, which literally translates […]

  Valerie Knott

  23/05/2019

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• Review of Puglian Pleasures Wine Tour: By Let’s go to Puglia!

  This year I had the pleasure to meet the founders of Let’s go to Puglia and several of their guests as they joined us for our Puglian Pleasures wine tour. This is their review of their experience with Puglian Pleasures. Written by Let’s go to Puglia New kids on the block, Puglian Pleasures, offer a […]

  Valerie Knott

  02/12/2015

  Culture and Traditions, Events, Food and Wine, Tours

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• Passion for Pasta

  

  We all know how passionate Italians are about pasta and how particular they are about which pasta shape must go with which sauce (I’m sure they’d be horrified to learn that I often just conjure up something from nothing and use whatever pasta I have to hand), so when I learnt that Pietro Ligorio and […]

  Valerie Knott

  31/08/2015

  Culture and Traditions, Food and Wine

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• Cooking like a local: Pugliese Style! – All things Cardoncelli

  

  This week’s seasonal dishes are based on cardoncelli mushrooms, which are a flat based mushrooms from the Puglia region. Last time I cooked with cardoncelli mushrooms, there wasn’t much left of them after I’d scrubbed all the dirt out from the tiny grooves underneath the cap of the mushroom! So this time I was a […]

  Valerie Knott

  25/04/2015

  Cooking like a local, Culture and Traditions, Food and Wine

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• Puglian Pasta – Orecchiette

  Every region in Italy has its own pasta shape and Orecchiette, is synonymous with Puglia. The word actually means small ears! Why? Because if you look close enough, its form resembles small ears! Orecchiette is made from semolina flour instead of plain flour which is used to make most pasta. This allows more flavours to […]

  Valerie Knott

  23/01/2015

  Culture and Traditions, Food and Wine

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• Orecchiette con le Cime di Rape

  Orecchiette con le Cime di Rape (with turnip tops) is the most popular dish in Puglia, especially in the province of Bari and Brindisi. The locals say that Cime di rape contains lot of nutrients that could help fight against cancers, this could be why it’s so popular and features a least once or twice […]

  Valerie Knott

  23/01/2015

  Culture and Traditions, Food and Wine

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