My home welcomes you with happiness to accompany you in this experience. Let's make local dishes together.

Creating the typical dishes in Colle Val d'elsa

Memories of my childhood, the dishes my mother cooked, an itinerary in traditional Italian cuisine ranging from Piedmont to Campania. Simple recipes but with the unmistakable taste of home and family. The menu will consist of three classic dishes of Italian regional cuisine.

Childhood memories

In a familiar and modern setting, you will taste traditional Tuscan dishes with some special reinterpretations. You'll range from the tradition of black Tuscan crostino with livers and pici (typical inland Tuscan pasta) with meat sauce, to a modern take on traditional cantuccini with Vin Santo.

Authentic flavors of Tscana

It is the typical Sienese sweet, made with candied fruit and almonds, a must on our tables. Good as a dessert but also for breakfast. We'll make it together and I'm sure it will never be missing again even on your tables. Let's try?

Panforte di Siena, a typical sweet made of almonds and candied fruit

Here is a new appointment with Tuscan tradition, an experience to get to know and get to know my city: Siena and its Chianti. Sienese cuisine boasts centuries of history and tradition, particular recipes of my land enhanced by the addition of special scents, the use of herbs such as tarragon or wild fennel and the use of Chianti wine for the realization of the recipes of the proposed menu. A journey into the typical to taste the best of our uniqueness, an indelible memory of taste and the infinite changing views, a vision of Siena in its most genuine expression, the use of products of local producers to enhance the quality, simply Tuscan cuisine.

A menu of Sienese taste

Mani in pasta in Siena, traditional recipes,food and taste

During this cooking class you will learn the techniques and preparation of some titpic recipes of the Italian gastronomic culture in the form of preserves, to extend the life of the products and taste, even out of season, intense and special flavors, aromas,Depending on the seasonality of the products, the recipes change: from the typical ''Tonno del Chianti'', a preserve made with white meat in oil with Tuscan herbs and spices, to be eaten with traditional beans al fiasco or seasonal vegetables; to the ''Certaldo'' onion jam, with a sweet, easily lovable taste, then mixed vegetables in oil, cherry tomatoes confit, liqueurs ,limoncello...all traditional products of the territory at Km 0, organic and first quality.

Homemade preserves and jams

Starting with the preparation of the dough, we will make Pici, a homemade pasta made only of flour and water, in this experience.Next we will also prepare the various types of traditional Sienese recipes making a culinary excursus to discover the most appetizing secrets of the local tradition.We will not miss, a sweet dessert and local red wine with which to accompany the dishes we have prepared.

Cooking class: homemade Pici senesi

We learn how to prepare the traditional Tuscan soup, a simple dish of peasant derivation, using the best vegetables and local products. The lesson continues by also preparing another classic recipe: pappa al pomodoro, all accompanied by a good glass of Chianti wine, to fully enjoy typical Tuscan food.To complete the experience there will be no shortage of the sweet side, with a good glass of Vin Santo.

Tuscan soups

In this experience you will learn all the secrets to making a good Italian-style fritto misto, rules and techniques for a finger-licking result!Depending on the seasonality of the products we will fry varieties of vegetables, white meat, cutlets, fish, fried sage, stuffed and battered squash blossoms, the ''donzelle'' and to finish even something sweet. From savory to dessert, everything fried, for a real sweet tooth experience.Italian bubbles as accompanying wine.

All the secrets to a good stir-fry

Special lesson to learn how to make a basic pastry dough: shortcrust pastry.Technique, workmanship and workshop to learn a versatile creation for: cake bases, cookies of all kinds with different fillings, artfully decorated tarts and baking techniques. Guaranteed fun and success for your desserts!There will be no more barriers to making such a versatile pastry base, try it to believe!

Master class: shortcrust pastry

lesson focused to learn , taste , match and prepare pizza at home , selection of the best flours for the realization of direct method doughs , gourmet fillings with the use of first quality ingredients using the best techniques to produce pizza , focaccia , stuffed bread , snacks of high quality , all combined with three varieties of beer that originated in Siena back in 1881 , the taste of a classic from the hands of a craftsman, the beer '' Bader '' a low fermentation beer , fresh light thanks to its 4 and a half degrees of pure taste .An experience to be repeated at home with friends and family , all accompanied by larder with doses , tips and techniques so as not to forget anything .