Italian Lasagne: No recipe needed


Italian cooking

Do all Italians simply know how to cook things without consulting a recipe?



The other day as I was grocery shopping, I was inspired to buy some sheets of fresh pasta for Lasagne. It had been months, years maybe since I made a home made lasagne (ok so I bought the pasta instead of cranking it out with my bare hands, no one is perfect!). The following Sunday, a day with no tours of the Vatican to worry about, I pulled the package out of the fridge and got to work.

I thought I would consult the cooking instructions to see about the cooking time for this particular brand of pasta, or maybe a suggested recipe - nothing! No oven temp, no cooking time, no recipe, NIENTE. Now, I know you might be thinking, haven't you lived in Italy for 10 years? Is it really that hard? Yes I have, and no it is not. And sure there are a million recipes online, in cookbooks, etc. Let's just say for argument's sake that I bought this stuff and took it to an isolated cabin in the woods. I think these people have some nerve to just assume that every woman in Italy is hard wired to know how to transform a package of raw pasta sheets into this:

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Lucky for me, my lasagne came out lovely. No thanks to my pals at Crestamio...

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06/08/2010 - Eleonora www.aglioolioepeperoncino.com

See, you did it. You have become an Italian!
Those lasagne look dreamy)

You know what we have to organize? A Cook-off!
Baci,
Ele xx

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