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

"Lombardy and its Flours" is a unique Italian cooking class. I will open my home to you, a beautiful attic with breathtaking views of the Swiss Alps, Como and Monte Rosa. You will taste the mouth-watering dishes you prepare, accompanied by excellent red or white wine and limoncello prepared by the hostess with organic lemons.I will teach you how to knead with typical Lombard flours: polenta flour, buckwheat flour and yellow "fioretto" flour. We will prepare together a typical appetizer, a fresh pasta dish and a dessert.When you return, you will amaze your diners with these delicious authentic Italian recipes!

Lombardy and its flours

With my experience I will welcome you into my home and you will feel part of the family immediately, you will be able to live an experience that you could not live alone.My lesson is fun, creative and exciting because you will have the opportunity to learn the recipes of authentic Italian cuisine!You will learn with me to "create" with your hands: egg pasta:The doses, the dough, making the sheets and making the ravioliThe pizza dish known and appreciated all over the world:the dough, the leavening, spreading of the dough, frying and seasoningThe tiramisu:the coffee, the cream of sugar and egg with the mascarpone, compose the tiramisuAt the end you can sit down at the table in the dining room prepared for you and enjoy the dishes prepared together toasting with excellent wine

Fried pizza, ravioli with ricotta and parmesan, tiramisu

Water and flour combined with each other and worked with the right technique can give great satisfaction in the kitchen.Get dishes to share with family and friends.I will teach you step by step the balance between these two ingredients, how to work them and the right rising times, the importance of yeast and understanding the right amount to get a perfect and light dough.The different flours for each dough.Then together we will roll out the dough to make the world-famous pizza Margherita, invented in June 1889 by chef Brandi in Naples in honor of Queen Margherita of Savoy and which has become famous all over the world.As a second recipe we will make fried pizzette, small discs of dough fried then topped with fresh tomato sauce and pecorino cheese.

Pizza and focaccia: the magic of flour with water

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

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

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

We will cook risottos together and make fresh pasta, such as tagliatelle, ravioli and pizzoccheri with buckwheat and cheeses from the mountains of Lake Como . I will tell you the stories and legends that each recipe brings. And we will taste the dishes while enjoying a wonderful view of Como and the lake. We will also gather herbs in my garden and use them in the dishes we will cook and eat together.

Cooking class with a view of Lake Como

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

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

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!