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Lesson “Italiano Vero”
30.10.2011
We decided to introduce our students to real home Italian cuisine during the lesson Italiano Vero. And for this, we invited a special guest. Together with the chef Konstantin Rossoshenko during the lesson our friend Francesco, an Italian from Genoa, prepared and shared his family recipes. Genoa is the Italian sister city of Odessa. It is the city within the region where the juiciest basil grows and where pesto sauce was invented. During the lesson, we prepared pesto sauce, Caesar salad with poached eggs, it turned out to be not so difficult to cook :), and, of course, the favourite Italian homemade dessert: tiramisu. Together with our students, we not only watched what and how the chef and Francesco are doing, but also did many processes on our own so it would be easy to repeat them later at home. We compared 2 options for making pesto during the lesson: traditional one, in a stone mortar and modern one, in a kitchen grinder, in order to feel the difference. We prepared tiramisu in a large ceramic form, as is customary for a large Italian family. And in the best Italian family traditions, at the end of the lesson, we ate together everything we cooked in a good mood. Sommelier Ksenia Yangulova, Goodwine, offered Brut Santero sparkling wine for an aperitif, and Cotes de Provence Rose La Vidaubanaise for dinner.
Recipes from the lesson:
