Recipe: A simple pasta dish from a trattoria in Florence inspires an attempt to replicate it at home. But how to replace a definitive ingredient?
Even now, months later, when I show the photo of that dish, I feel like I have to explain, or apologize on its behalf. It doesn’t look like much. It’s a plate of very plain pasta with a couple of slices of very large mushrooms on top.But I have heard for years and years how the magic of Italian food is in the simplicity. And I wanted to believe it. So I set aside my inborn inclination for bells and whistles and complication and stuck my fork into the tangle of tagliatelle.
That dish had fewer ingredients than its menu description had words, I’m confident. The pasta was certainly just flour and eggs. The sliced porcini on top were probably cooked in butter — maybe mixed with olive oil? — at a low temperature so as to add no color whatsoever; they looked braised more than sauteed. The sauce holding the pasta together was nothing more than butter and probably some of the pasta cooking water. That water probably held all the salt that went into the dish.
The hurdle would be the mushroom. Porcini are kind of the Lamborghini of mushrooms, a singular statement of meatiness and earthiness virtually immune from substitution. They share some luxurious qualities with truffles, which makes sense because they grow wild in the same places. They’re hard to find fresh in the States. When you can, they’re usually small, in rough shape and cost about the same as that Lamborghini.I wasn’t going to use fresh porcini.
Deutschland Neuesten Nachrichten, Deutschland Schlagzeilen
Similar News:Sie können auch ähnliche Nachrichten wie diese lesen, die wir aus anderen Nachrichtenquellen gesammelt haben.
Three children dead, two injured in stabbing at a Texas homeITALY, Texas — (ITALY, Texas) -- Three children were fatally stabbed and two were injured Friday in an attack at a home in Italy, Texas, police said.
Weiterlesen »
Plan for alternating lane restrictions on SR 79 Gila River bridge in Florence starting March 3
Weiterlesen »
Italy to hold cabinet meeting in migrant shipwreck areaItaly's government will hold a cabinet meeting near the southern seaside town where dozens of bodies washed ashore after a migrant ship broke up on rocks last month, Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni said on Saturday.
Weiterlesen »
Italy's Eni signs cooperation accord with UAE's ADNOCItalian energy company Eni has signed an accord with Abu Dhabi National Oil Co (ADNOC) for cooperating in promoting the energy transition as Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni visits the United Arab Emirates, UAE state news agency WAM said.
Weiterlesen »
Italy close to approve CDP, Macquarie bid for TIM's grid- Bloomberg NewsItaly is close to granting preliminary approval to a multibillion-euro offer by state lender CDP and Macquarie Group for Telecom Italia's landline network, Bloomberg News reported on Saturday citing people familiar with the matter.
Weiterlesen »
3 children killed, 2 hurt in Italy, TexasThe Ellis County Sheriff's Office is investigating the murders of three children in an attack that also injured two other children.
Weiterlesen »