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    Italian Cooking With Nonna Anna

    October 17, 2020 by Anna Leave a Comment

    Is there anything better than cooking with friends and sharing a meal? We spent a day doing just that, Italian cooking with Nonna Anna.

    Four dishes from Cooking with Nonna Anna. Clockwise from top left, eggplant caponata on bruschetta, Zucchini Scapece, Beef Braciole with pasta and sauce, Zuccotto.

    Oh yes we did...we spent a whole day a couple years ago cooking with Nonna Anna! Choose your people, buy some groceries and have a day cooking and eating and having Gr8 Fun!

    Italian food is delicious, it's colorful, let's face it...Italian food is fun! And making pasta with friends is a LOT of fun!

    So, let's review:

    • Gr8 Food - check;
    • Gr8 Fun - check; and we did it with
    • Gr8 Friends — a triple header!
    Collage of cooking day. Clockwise from top left, pounding meat, slicing zucchini, putting pasta through the roller, serving pasta, grilling asparagus, at the stove.
    Hard at work!

    With Nonna Anna's help we created a whole Italian meal and the recipes for most of what we made are here on our very own blog.

    Cooking With Nonna Anna

    • Eggplant Caponata
    • Zucchini Scapece
    • Red Sauce
    • Fresh Pasta
    • Beef Braciole
    • Zuccotto

    And then our husbands arrived and we relaxed a little...

    Nonna Anna and Tim relaxing in barrel chairs in the yard.

    And then we ate! So grab some Gr8 Friends, cook a meal, any meal, and enjoy life! Be a Gr8 Friend!

    Nonna Anna filling a plate with food.

    PostScript:

    Fun Facts about Italy.

    1. The national dish of Italy is PASTA.
    2. On average, each person in Italy consumes 55 pounds of pasta per year; that's more than a pound a week!
    3. Wine has been produced in Italy for over 2800 years.
    4. The average Italian consumes 26 gallons of wine a year!
    5. Italian pizza was invented during the 18th century in Naples, where Nonna Anna is from...no wonder she's a gr8 cook!
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