MONTHLY COURSE IN NOVEMBER

The Monthly Course ITALIAN CUISINE TRHOUGH TIME AND SPACE will take place in November 2013, starting on November 4th.

This is the link on the web site

http://www.gigliocooking.com/en/programs/monthly/monthly-course.html

The course will follow the schedule below:

Lesson 1 – November 4th   – 9:30/13:00

PASTA 1 : DRY AND FRESH PASTA. Different flours. Basic recipes of simple pasta with semolina (tagliatelle, tagliolini, taglierini garganelli, orecchiette emiliane, sfrappole); pasta with mixtures of 00 flour and semolina; orecchiette pugliesi .

Lecture: The history of pasta: legend and truth

 Lesson 2 – November 5^th  – 9:30/13:00

BASIC PREPARATIONS  The pre-preparation in the kitchen: broths, stocks, consommè and bisque. Lecture: Sauces and stocks: tradition and innovation

Lecture: How many tomato sauces exist?

Lecture: Caramel and syrup

Tale: Tuscany meets Main

Tale : Tuscany meets Maine

Lesson 3 – November 6^th  9:30/13:00

PASTA 2 : STUFFED PASTA. Ravioli, tortellini, agnolotti, raviolo spiegato. Folding of pasta, stuffing, presentation from traditional to modern style.  Ravioli stuffed with broth gelatine.

Lesson 4 – Novemebr 7^th  – 9:30/13:00

FISH 1 :  Practise: how to fillet the fish. Recipes:  Raw fish, Tuna fish Sicilian style; Sword fish with citrus sauce and celery soufflé; Sea bream with artichokes;   Molluscs  soup.

Lecture: What characterize my cuisine

Tale: The molluscs soup

Lesson 5 – November 8^th – 9:30 / 13:00

MEAT 1 : traditional searing and roasting and low cooking. Traditional nonna’s style low cooking and post modern rare-ness. Recipes: Abbacchio alla Romana; Pullus fusillis; Vitellina fricta.

Lecture: the Italian diversities

Lesson 6 – November 11th – 9:30/13:00

PASTA 3 : PASTA MADE WITH DIFFERENT FLOURS. The use of buck wheat, hazelnut, beans purees, kamut, Recipes: traditional Pasta and fagioli; Marcella’s Pasta and Fagioli;

        Lesson 7 – November 12^th  – 9:30/13:00

        VEGETABLE 1 : the vegetables on the Italian table. Seasonality and nutritional value.

Recipes: Classic Melanzane alla Parmigiana and modern variations; Burrata salad; Eggplant mousse in chocolate bomb;  Minestrone.; delicate lentils soup.

Lecture: Vegetables

Tale: Just done

Lesson 8 – November 13^th  – 9:30/13:00

FISH 2 - PRESERVED COD FISH, Baccalà and Stoccafisso, from traditional recipes to foams. Anchovies and sardines: from Roman Garum to modern finger foods.

        Lesson 9 – November 14^th   – 9:30/13:00

PASTA 4 : COLOURED PASTA, with vegetables.  Pasta with soy lecitine. Recipes: Green handkerchiefs with asparagus and scampis; Black taglioni with white squid; Coffee tagliatelle with artichokes; Red tagliolini with zucchini and smoked cheese

        Lesson 10 – November 15th   – 9:30/13:00

GNOCCHI : Recipes: potato gnocchi ; fuchsia with beet roos; chestnut gnocchi. Spinach dumplings; Parisienne.

Lecture : food and words

Lecture: Gnocchi

        Lesson 11 – November 18^th  – 9:30/13:00

DESSERT 1 :  traditional Cantuccini and variation on it. Lecitine cookies and caramelised figs. Savillum and other combinations of cheese and honey

        Lesson 12 – novembre 19th  – 9:30/13:00

          VEGETABLES 2 :  More cold sauces; Dry pasta with vegetables – Artichoke flan; Fried zucchini.

         

        Lesson 13 – November 20^th   – 9:30/13:00

MEAT 2 : low cooking - confit, game. Recipes: Carne ‘ncartata.; Hare with blueberries and chestnuts. Wild boar , Salmì and Civet.

Lecture : Ex-ducere.

Lesson 14 – November 21^st   – 9:30/13:00

Lecture : the words in the kitchen

OFFALS : chicken liver ; tripe, pork liver, brains. Pan brioche: making bread.

        Lesson 15 – November 22^nd  – 9:30/13:00

ICE CREAM  :The technique. Sorbets. Parmigiano ice cream for appetizer

Lesson 16 – November 25^th   – 9:30/13:00

        SWEET AND SOUR TRADITION 1 : Caponata, Pork with liquorice.

Tale:Tuscany meets Maine 2 (Lobster with blueberries) 

      Lesson 17 – November 26^th  – 9:30/13:00

AN ITALIAN TYPICAL MENU.   

Preparation of a feast Italian meal with four courses: Ravioli with cheese and pears; Ida’s veal rolls; Peas Florentine style; Glazed fruit.

          

        Lesson 18 –November 27^th – 9:30/13:00

DESSERT 2 :  Chocolate.Two versions of salted chocolate mousse; Chocolate mousse, raspberry garnish.

Lecture: Fancy sugar. Golden strings.

        Lesson 19 –November 28^th – 9:30/13:00

SWEET AND SOUR TRADITION 2: Renaissance duck in orange sauce with variations; stuffed pigeon; Guinea fowl with grapes. Sarde in saor.

        Lesson 20 – November 29^th   – 9:30/13:00

Lecture: Standardization and individualism : case or necessity ?

Class open to students’ ideas and requests.

Finger food

At the end of every class, students and teacher will taste preparations, analysing procedures, flavours, Italian sense of taste.