Italian Food

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Pizza Dough: Vehicle for Leftovers

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Pizza Dough: Vehicle for Leftovers

Given I have an obsessive passion for everything and anything Italian, spent a month on a farm in the middle of nowhere [have a little read if you're curious...], promised more Italian recipes than I’ve actually yet delivered [please forgive me].  And somehow, ended up with a massive tub of Devi’s [Maltby St. Market regular] leftover Persian Aubergine - which I had no choice but to take home with me to save from the bin – along with a pesto from The Gay Farmer [other Maltby St. Market regular] that I’m dying to try.  Pizza dough, was the only logical upcycling solution that could do my street food leftovers justice.

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Stale-Bread Summer Panzanella

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Stale-Bread Summer Panzanella

For a No-Waste-harping, Italian-food-obsessing, Bestover-loving-gal, discovering the secrets of Panzanella were certainly among the best things to happen to me while in Italy (hey don't judge, some people get excited about tech, I get excited about new ways to upcycle foods.  To each their own...).

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Stale Bread à la Trentina

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Stale Bread à la Trentina

Casually browsing through my newsfeed this morning, as one does, when I happened across Tasting' Table's Jonathan Sawyer's Strangolopreti alla Trentina, titled, Jonathan Sawyer's Oozy Cheese Dumplings.  Stunning cinematography, beautiful ingredients, straight forward, honest, and that jazz (meant to shazam that...).  Believe it or not (please don't judge me) that was not what sold me.  It was about a third of the way through the video when he whips a baguette out of nowhere, cracks it in half across his knee, and while grating it speaks the line "it's one of those dishes where yesterday's treasures become today's treasures".  Yup.  Sold.