In this special weekly course, there will be the opportunity to discover an off the beaten path area, their recipes, their specialty products such as truffles and mushrooms and a unique way of matching them. This is a full immersion in Abruzzo, where cooking is made in the morning and food oriented excursions are done in the afternoon.
During the week, there will be an exploration of traditional pasta making, paired with some innovation that can generate creativity. The afternoon is dedicated to the discovery of where some of the main ingredients are coming from. For example: see how olive oil is made, where truffles come from, see how artisan caciocavallo cheese is made, and more.
DAY 1: Welcome Dinner & Briefing
DAY 2: PASTA MAKING
- Dry pastas
- Fresh egg pasta
- Different pasta cuts
- Stuffed pastas
- Timballi
- Gnocchi
Afternoon excursion to Olive grove and olive press. Learn the process on how olives are picked, pressed and olive oil made. Plus a small lecture on how to sample olive oil.
DAY 3: PASTA SAUCES
Mother sauces:
- Brown
- Game brown
- White
- Fish white
- Meat sauce
- Veloutè Fish veloutè
- Bèchamel
- Tomato sauce
Afternoon excursion to cheese manufactory. Watch the production of the making of an artisan Caciocavallo sharp cheese
DAY 4: TRUFFLES
- Truffle lecture on the different truffles (black summer truffle, white truffles, and more)
- How to preserve truffles
- Different and creative ways to cook truffles,
Here are some dishes that will be prepared for example:
- Lemon pudding with a lobster wrapped in a flaky sesame crust with a truffle dressing
- Crema cotta with truffles and cardoons
- Bread gnocchi, stuffed with a truffled fondue, with sautéed mixed mushrooms
- Lasagna with a rabbit red sauced ragu, with a fava bean cream and black truffle
- Ravioli stuffed with scallops, with a spumante truffle sauce
- Duck soup, with spelt, mushrooms and truffles, covered with a thin pastry dough
- Black chocolate truffles
Discover the landscape where truffles are grown and if we are in the season, truffle hunting with dogs.
DAY 5: RICE & RISOTTO
Learn about the varieties of rice and their use:
- Whole wheat rice, with rucola and porcini mushrooms
- Rice timballo with wild greens
- Risotto, shrimps and radicchio
- Risotto with pumpkin and Montepulciano wine
- Risotto with seafood
Afternoon excursion to an ancient fishing house called trabocco. This house on stilt exists only on a small stretch of the Adriatic for about 20 miles.
DAY 6: ABRUZZO TOUR
An all day excursion to visit and discover this wonderful region that is off the beaten path. Lunch at the best fish restaurant in town and time for a little shopping.
