With this recipes you will discover three simple, but very classical recipes which belong to my family since generations.You will be able to prepare and taste the nervetti (veal nerves) made with onion and beans and a typical risotto with lake fish. To finish a simple, but very tasty, cake which I used to eat when I was a child at my grandmother's house.I wait for you!

A culinary journey through family recipes

We offer you the wonderful experience of a backyard barbecue that becomes a celebration and an opportunity to get together as a family.In the heart of Brianza, a stone's throw from the Lake, with a view of Mount Resegone, in a large garden of an Art Nouveau villa you will have the chance to taste something more than a classic barbecue.We can grill veggies, many types of meat and even try and cook some pizza.

Garden barbecue near Como Lake

Lambrugo

Paola

Como

Beatrice

Small group hands-on cooking class with 2 pasta recipes, Tiramisù and aperitivo.Meals in Lake Como are a relaxed and leisurely time to spend with your beloved ones. Live a dining experience like the Italians do and enjoy the typical food of the area.Immerse yourself in the regional traditions of everyday Italy.Cesarina Bea welcomes us to her cozy home in the historical town center of Como, located within walking distance of the lake. Try her three-course dining experience, showcasing their favourite traditional family recipes.You will take part in an experience which is so much more than just a lunch or dinner. Dining with a Cesarina gives you the chance to be welcomed in like one of the family and live like the Italians do.Carefully selected local wines, beverages and coffee is i

Small group hands-on cooking class, pasta and tiramisù

Meals in Lake Como are a relaxed and leisurely time to spend with your beloved ones. Live a dining experience like the Italians do and enjoy the typical food of the area.Immerse yourself in the regional traditions of everyday Italy.Cesarina Bea welcomes us to her cozy home in the historical town center of Como, located within walking distance of the lake. Try her three-course dining experience, showcasing their favourite traditional family recipes.You will take part in an experience which is so much more than just a lunch or dinner. Dining with a Cesarina gives you the chance to be welcomed in like one of the family and live like the Italians do.Carefully selected local wines, beverages and coffee is included in the experience.

Typical dining experience in Como

Take a seat at my cozy Cesarine table to savor forgotten recipes that have been treasured and passed down for generations.During this cooking class you will learn, step by step, how to prepare three recipes: a bruschetta typical of my area, a fresh pasta dish and a dessert.Together we will prepare the dough, rolling out the pastry and shaping it according to my family's recipes.Each participant will have an apron and a handout in which the recipes will be described with ingredients and various steps.To end on a sweet note, we will also prepare together a great tiramisu from my family recipe book.All will be enjoyed in the company of good local wine.

Cooking class in the center of Como

Varenna

Monica

Become immersed in Italian culture as you learn to make traditional dishes during this cooking class in Varenna. This private class takes you to a local home where you can learn all about Italian cooking while making a number of dishes. Learn tricks and tips so you can recreate the dishes at home and sit down to the fruits of your labor paired with local wine!

Cooking class at the home of a Cesarina in Varenna

Learn to make classic Italian dishes—pasta and tiramisu—during this workshop in Varenna. With a small group, enjoy a hands-on workshop and have plenty of time to ask questions. Then, sit down with your fellow classmates and enjoy the meal with a glass of wine.You have plenty of time to ask questions about Italian cuisine to your host.

Small group Pasta and Tiramisu class in Varenna

Anna

This cooking class will take place at a beautiful location, overlooking the breathtaking scenery of Lake Como. My home with large windows offering spectacular views of the Lombardy scenery, is the perfect place to spend a day learning how to cook delicious dishes with local products.We will put our hands to pasta, making tagliatelle and ravioli together. I will introduce you to and taste artisanal cheeses and cured meats, made by young farmers in the mountains of Lake Como. We will also cook risottos and lake fish; and then taste them together while admiring the wonderful view of the lake and the city of Como.

Cooking class with enchanting lake view

Vincenzo e Stefania

We will make the dough together with the best flour and yeast on the market.We will use only real and fresh smoked buffalo mozzarella (never in the refrigerator) for the pizza.Creating the pizza dough and eating it is as much fun as choosing the ingredients to fill it: I suggest classic flavors such as Margherita, Margherita with Bolognese sauce, with a base composed of mortadella and pistachio or with sausage and baked potatoes, but you can create a space pizza with three simple ingredients.Ready to unleash your creativity?

Pizza Napoletana DOC and baking in a wood-fired oven in Como

Cantù

Carolina

This experience consists in a visit to the city market and a cooking lesson of typical Italian recipes.You already know that the secret of every good dish is the ingredients, for this reason the cooking class will begin with a visit to the local market where the Cesarina will show you the typical local products and she will buy with you the ingredients for the recipes that you will prepare together. You will be welcomed with a typical Italian aperitivo at the Cesarina's home, a beautiful penthouse with breathtaking views of the Swiss Alps, Como and Monte Rosa. During the lesson you will prepare an appetizer, a fresh pasta dish and a dessert.The Cesarina will show you how to prepare fresh pasta and how to decorate your desserts.Finally, we will have lunch together!

Cantù market tour and fresh pasta cooking class

Appiano Gentile

Damiano

I will be happy to welcome you to my home, decorated for the Christmas holidays.After a welcome drink if you wish, you can actively participate in the preparation of the dishes that we will eat for lunch or dinner. I will teach you how to prepare typical holiday dishes with the secrets that grandmothers, aunts and my mother taught me.We will pleasantly spend a few hours together and I will make you feel at home. If we have time we will also play a few games of tombola, a typical holiday game in Italian homes.

Christmas dinner: an evening in Como

Happy to welcome you to my home, I will have the pleasure of making this experience unique with good traditional food.Together we will prepare tasty traditional Como dishes but with a vegetarian twist, and if the weather permits, we will also be able to take advantage of the outdoor space to enjoy the experience to the fullest.There will of course be no shortage of good wine, coffee and bitters as well as lots of merriment.

Como's traditional recipes

In this special cooking class, I will reveal all the secrets to cleaning, preparing, filleting and enjoying recipes with the excellent lake fish caught in Lake Como.We will start the day with a Welcome Aperitif: appetizers and a glass of wine will welcome you to my home.Afterwards I will reveal the secrets of 4 recipes handed down from my family:a lake fish appetizerthe classic ravioli stuffed with trout and perch, with the recipe that my grandmother handed down to my mom and she to mea traditional fish second course, which could be baked fish or fried fisha typically Italian dessert: "tiramisu ".Depending on the season we may have lunch or dinner in the garden concluding with a good coffee and homemade liqueurs.

Cooking class: preparing fish from Lake Como

Triuggio

Lorenza

We start with an aperitif of Italian bubbles with appetizers and then continue with antipasto and then the cooking demo of risotto alla monzese, which we will then savor togetherWe move on to the second course and then close with dessert

Typical 4 course Brianza menu with aperitif and cooking demo

A tour of the farm Cascina Bressanella.Here you can experience farming based on short supply chain and land protection.Discover the secrets of Italian family recipes during your travels: your Cesarina will share her wisdom, passed down in the family for generations.In your Cesarina's kitchen you will be able to follow the making of a risotto and savor the true flavors of Brianza.Feel the warmth of Italian hospitality as you connect with the locals.

Tour to Cascina Bressanella with dinner and show cooking

A family lunch or dinner with typical local dishes

Typical Brianza 3 course lunch or dinner

An open space kitchen, a convivial space in my eclectic home filled with books, art pieces and design. We will cook together, and because I like to chat, I will tell you some good local stories, from Alessandro Volta (yes the one who invented the battery) to my father (exponent of Como Abstractism and textile designer), to my anti-waste commitment with the Food Bank. We will prepare simple and healthy dishes, with local ingredients. I buy everything I can at the market, from local producers to rediscover the flavors of this beautiful lake and its surroundings. That's why my dishes are based on vegetables and cheeses, basic ingredients of the area's cuisine. I try not to waste food and will give you some suggestions for reusing leftover food.

PastaPassion in Como - 3 recipes course

Fino Mornasco

Cristiana

We prepare the traditional first course: pizzoccheri (using local vegetables and cheeses).We then learn how to make tortelloni stuffed with pork cooked in Bbq at a low temperature, for a richly flavored and very modern dish.We finish with a baked pasta that we will dress with seasonal vegetables (local vegetables, if the experience is done in summer or fall, we can pick vegetables directly from the garden).

Fresh pasta class in a country house 

We harvest vegetables from the garden to cook together a healthy, yet mouth-watering menu using the barbecue. An all-around menu consisting of meat, vegetables and fruit, paired with delicious craft beer. We will learn about the most suitable cuts of meat and how to work them, the basics of barbecue and the different types of cooking: meat cooked at low temperature, the basics of smoking and the correct temperatures.We will look together at the characteristics of the vegetables we grow in our garden and how to cut and cook them in alternative ways.

Dinner in the garden with barbecue

Let's harvest vegetables and herbs in the garden and learn how to preserve them for the winter in a traditional way, but with a modern twist.By learning all the characteristics of different plants, we will learn how to make the most of them.I will teach you the technique of drying and how to regenerate vegetables and also fruits, such as white citrus fruits to be enjoyed all year round.

From the garden to the pantry

We will learn about the seasonality of fruit and how to make delicious desserts and the basics of classic pastry with it. We will use every part of the fruit, without throwing anything away, making the most of the fruit's characteristics, with the utmost respect for nature, in a modern way.From the oven to the ice cream maker, I will offer a one-of-a-kind experience.

Sweets with fresh fruit in season

Cernobbio

Cernobbio is a quaint village nestled between the splendor of Lake Como and the nearby mountains. An area in which nature, history and art are inseparably connected. A place that manages to evoke innumerable emotions, images, literary and culinary memories...In my kitchen you will be the protagonists of a fun and educational cooking class. We will learn how to prepare three local recipes related to my family, using fresh vegetables from the garden and products from the mountains.

Cooking class on the lake

Monza

Sara

I offer you the opportunity to enjoy a guided wine tour with a visit to a local winery of my region, out from the more touristic paths. You will hear directly from a winemaker the fascinating stories about the wine area, its terroir and wines and learn the secrets of the ancient art of wine making.The visit to the winery will be followed by a guided tasting of 3 representative wines from the winery paired with a small local nibbles or a traditional "tagliere" of cold cuts and cheese.A unique opportunity to have an authentic experience and learn about wine through the words of its protagonists.The meeting point for this experience can be at my home or directly at the winemakers' according to organizational needs and timing.

Authentic experience: visit to a local winery

An enoic journey through the wine territories stretching between two great Lombard lakes, the Lario and the Sebino.In 6 glasses you will explore the history and characteristics of local Lombardy wines, in terroirs historically devoted to viticulture, giving birth to quality wines. We will start from the hills of Brianza around Montevecchia arriving as far as upper Lake Como and then push on to the hills of Bergamo. We will end up our journey on the shores of Lake Iseo.The wines I will offer for tasting come mainly from small wineries and local winemakers.I will guide you through the tasting of each glass paired with bites of typical local products.

Discover territorial wines with a guided tasting

Treviolo

Barbara

For your bachelorette party we will put our hands in the dough!We will start with a welcome drink accompanied by a platter of mixed crostini .I will teach you how to make scarpinocc (typical stuffed pasta from Parre ) but we will also make tagliatelle.We will continue by learning how to make a strawberries and chocolate tiramisu accompanied by a glass of bubbles.At the end of the course we will taste what we have prepared together accompanied by Valcaleppio rosso riserva but there will also be a glass of Moscato di Scanzo ( passito di Bergamo).

Bachelorette party

Hi I'm Barbara I can not wait to host you in my house. I will prepare for you 3 traditional dishes and they will be accompained by an excellent local wine, I am a sommelier you can trust me!

Let's eat 3 course menu

Cooking class with 3 recipes (appetizer, fresh pasta dish and dessert) followed by 3-course menu with the dishes prepared during the course.Hi I'm Barbara,I am looking forward to hosting you in my home! We will cook together from appetizer to dessert. We will have fun making "scarpinocc," a stuffed pasta typical of the Bergamo valleys ( vegetarian pasta). We will end our cooking class with tiramisu.I'll be waiting for you!

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