I will reveal the secrets of crafting authentic Genovese DOP basil pesto using a mortar, and you may even be inspired to join the World Pesto Championship.Additionally, we'll prepare walnut sauce, a classic Genoese condiment that pairs wonderfully with pansotti (herb-filled ravioli), highlighting the region's aromatic herbs. Furthermore, we'll bake Genoese sage focaccia.Join me at my home in the heart of Genoa, just steps away from the historic Palazzi dei Rolli, a noble gathering place in the 1700s. Don't miss this opportunity to learn the art of handcrafting the world's most renowned sauce: "Il Pesto".

Genovese Pesto Cooking Class

In this three-hour cooking class, led by an experienced chef, you will discover the secrets of traditional cooking in La Spezia in an authentic Italian home, learn how to make handmade pasta and pair it with the freshest, seasonal ingredients!You will be happy to take home your new culinary skills and amaze your guests!

Cooking class in the garden in the Cinque Terre

Learn how to make two types of Italian pasta and a classic Italian dessert during this chef-led cooking workshop. In the private home of a Cesarina in La Spezia, receive hands-on instruction for making trofie, gnocchetti and tiramisu from one-of-a-kind family recipes. Workshops include local wine and coffee, as well as lunch or dinner prepared during the class.

Cinque Terre Cooking Class: pasta, tiramisù and aperitivo 

I will be happy to host you in my home and offer a lunch or dinner with the recipes we will prepare together during this cooking class.Step by step we will learn how to make noodles and ravioli learning all the secrets to make them perfect.To conclude we will gladden the senses with the most mouth-watering dessert in the Italian tradition: his majesty the tiramisu.

The Italian menu: ravioli, tagliatelle and tiramisu

My experience is a three course menu (starter, pasta, dessert) with wine included, set in the beautiful location of San Venerio, a small village in the hills of La Spezia.The appetizer is made with fried pumpkinflowers and is followed by trofie al pesto, a must if you are staying in Liguria.The dessert, light and sweet at the same time, is Mascarpone cream with seasonal fruit salad.I'm waiting for you!

Typical ligurian dinner with trofie

Learn to shop and cook like a true Italian with this custom home cooking class based on the ingredients you choose at the market with your local host and instructor.Stroll through La Spezia’s market and choose up ingredients that catch your eye, then head back to your host’s home kitchen for a hands-on lesson to create dishes featuring the fresh, seasonal specialties you’ve selected.

Market tour and cooking class in La Spezia

During this cooking class you will learn how to prepare 3 recipes: an appetizer typical of my area, Chard Pie, a first course of fresh pasta, and Canestrelli, sweets typical of Liguria.Under my guidance you will learn how to make the dough, roll out the puff pastry and prepare a fresh pasta following my family's recipes, with a filling of local herbs and ricotta cheese. We will use the old family mortar to make a traditional sauce with walnuts, garlic and cream.Dulcis in fundo we will make the typical flower-shaped Canestrelli cookies with simple ingredients such as butter flour sugar and egg. All that remains is to try putting your hands in the dough and savor the authenticity and simplicity of Ligurian cuisine.

Cooking class with 3 Ligurian recipes

Don't celebrate your birthday or a loved one's birthday at the usual venue--try a new experience! Choose my Home Restaurant!  You will be welcomed in a family environment where you can spend your birthday, with your family or friends, in a relaxed way, enjoying the typical dishes of my area with a mise en place decorated with flowers and accessoriesThe Happy Birthday menu to you proposes:Alcoholic and non-alcoholic welcome drink with panissa and cuculliAppetizers: Focaccini accompanied by cold meats and cheesesFirst course: Trofiette pasta with pesto sauce with potatoes and green beansMain course: Genoese-style cima with roasted potatoesDessert: happy birthday cakeIncluding wine, water, coffee and sparkling wine

Celebrating a birthday in Genoa: special homecooking

I will welcome guests to the dining room with a welcome aperitif accompanied by cuculli (fluffy pancakes) and panissa (chickpea flour pancakes). After the aperitif, there will be a demonstration for the preparation of Recco-type cheese focaccia: how the dough is made, the use of prescinseua (typical Genoese cheese), and baking.This will be followed by the first course with homemade ravioli made with meat, as a recipe handed down from my great-grandmother, and topped with typical Genoese tuccu.The second course is also an old Genoese specialty: stracotto, accompanied by delicious roasted potatoes flavored with herbs.We end the menu with a cake made of shortbread and lemon cream garnished with pine nuts, all washed down with typical local wine.

The delicious Genoese cuisine

A cooking class to learn the preparation of two delicious and very popular dishes: ravioli and tiramisu. You will start by preparing the filling for the ravioli and the puff pastry. Next we will move on to the making of tiramisu. You will make the ladyfingers with your own hands, prepare the egg and mascarpone cream and go on to compose your tiramisu and then enjoy it at the end of the meal. At the end of the cooking class we will set the table, a mise en place with delicate tones and decorated with seasonal flowers to make everything prettier. I will be happy to welcome you to my home and work alongside you. When you arrive you will find all the materials and ingredients you need to make the dishes.

Cooking class: ravioli alla genovese

The most beautiful tour ever, in a market that dates back to the 1930s, the Mercato Orientale in Genoa, in the heart of the city: an unforgettable combination of scents and colours. If you are looking for traditional Genoese products to prepare our dishes, here you cannot go wrong, there is true excellence and the products are fresh and zero km. I will take you with me to do the shopping and then cook our dishes at my place, a few steps away from Europe's largest historical centre, with the Rolli palaces in the world-famous Via Aurea. Together we will cook and taste traditional dishes like anchovy pie and genoese soup.

Market tour of the Mercato Orientale in Genoa

Dear friends, when you come to visit me you will find a large apartment in the heart of old Genoa. The location dates back to the 1700s, owned by an old family of Genoese nobles.It is a short walk from the largest historic center in Europe, that of the Palazzi dei Rolli in the Via Aurea Garibaldi, where time has stopped in the 16th century. The Doge with the Genoese nobles inhabited these palaces full of Baroque paintings, Persian carpets and objects from ancient China with which the Seafaring Republic of Genoa held its first sailing charters; now home to magnificent museums.The dishes we will make together: "Calamaritto", a squid sandwich, Potato gnocchi with Pesto and a traditional dessert.