We make the pasta in 3 sizes and then enjoy it together

Cooking class with 3 pasta recipes

_Curious about homemade pasta? I will teach you how to make fresh homemade pasta with just two ingredients: flour and eggs._tagliatelle and ravioli filled with ricotta cheese and spinach.

Pasta and Tiramisù feast in Camaiore

This cooking class is based in Camaiore and has as main focus a type of very popular fish: anchovies. We will cook a three course menu with them: a starter, main course and second plate. Their unmistakable taste will accompany us in each of the recipes. I always try to use quality ingredients, to use local products and not to waste food.

A sea of anchovies: fish cooking class in Camaiore

Recipes from Garfagnana. Traditional and brandnew recipes with pecular ingredients

Garfagnana cuisine in 3 recipes

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 

After the appetizer, we gather around our table with apron and rolling pin. We prepare pasta together in three different shapes, using various types of flour, purchased directly from the local mill:i pici, a long, rustic pasta that is worked only with the hands;i maccheroni, a square-shaped pasta, which is cut with a notched wheel;ravioli, a filled pasta that can be made with different tools.We will cook them together, choosing the most suitable sauce for each format.In warm weather we can eat outside, on the terrace or on the patio. In winter, we will have company by the burning fireplace.

Cooking class in Tuscany: let's prepare pici together

In my house cooking is also feeling part of a tradition and a place, and the dishes of my land are the ones that make me feel Tuscan. Let's prepare together some simple recipes, but typical of my country and tasty.After an aperitif that takes into account the seasonality, we prepare together:the cecina, or chickpea porridge, a very low salted cakegnocchi, made from potatoes and flourcantucci, cut and crispy cookies.Let's taste together the dishes we have prepared, sipping wine from local wineries. The cecina will be accompanied by "spuma", a soft drink very common in Tuscany.

Let's prepare three good Tuscan recipes together

The food our grandparents ate was a little less refined than the one we can eat today, but also more genuine and fresh. The ingredients came from the vegetable garden and the hen house, from the woods and the fields of the village. To taste them, let's prepare together three traditional Tuscan recipes, a bit rustic, but with the flavor of memory:bruschetta and Tuscan croutonswholemeal macaroni (with flour from the local mill)la morsellata (codfish remade with onions)bread cake (recycling dish)Even the aperitif and liqueurs at the end of the meal have the taste of the past, and I prepare them with herbs and fruit from my garden.On request the dishes can be vegetarian.

Special cooking class in Lucca: flavors of the past

We start this experience with an aperitif, enjoying a beautiful tray of bruschetta made with simple and genuine ingredients from my area. Then we move on to action! Together we will prepare the famous Scarpaccia Viareggina, made with fresh zucchini, macaroni with our 'garden pomarola', and to finish, Necci with ricotta. It is also possible to prepare vegetarian versions of the dishes upon request. Let's have fun together in the kitchen!

Cooking course with specialties from Versilia

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

The cooking class includes stuffed egg pasta, semolina pasta and tiramisu: ravioli stuffed with ricotta cheese and spinach stir fried with butter and sage, Maltagliati (irregularly cut fresh pasta) with ragù.The tasting of these two fresh homemade pasta will be served with Vermentino, a regional Ligurian wine.Such an experience will be completed with Tiramisù.A wide terrace will be the perfect location to taste the results of your class!There are beautiful places you can reach to make your stay a great experience, such as Cinque Terre (Five Lands) with just a 30' train ride, Portovenere (my hometown) or Lerici.Nice places for those who love the seaside and those who want to start appreciating inlets and peculiar landscapes filled with the scent of sea, seafood dishes and Ligurian focaccia!