Cooking classes
Cooking classes are held by Franco and Claudia either at Corte di langa or at Ca' Momplin. You will have the opportunity to attend personal, hands-on cooking lessons: not the one you are used to, where you need so many complicated tools and components you'll never attempt to make any recipe you learn on your own. Simple but original recipes, the one people make here, in Piedmont, with the tools of the trade you normally have at home; you might not have a "mezzaluna" (rocking knife) to mince things with, but that's easy enough to find at the local open air market (it's really inexpensive) and you should have one anyway: how can you cook without it !?!
Our cooking classes last about three hours; since you are going to eat what we are going to cook together, we will have one or two entries (antipasto), a main dish and a dessert; the latter are Claudia's favorites and you'll have the choice between classics such as "Tiramisù'" or local delicacies like "Pesche al cioccolato", "Bunet" or "Panna Cotta".
We will understand how bread is made and we are going to bake some together (you cannot eat without bread in Italy). We are going to prepare "bagnetto", a green sauce with which you can entertain tomatoes, green pepper (red and yellow down here) and green salad, we will understand and learn, how to cook real "pasta sauce" (not the one you buy in supermarkets), and, of course, we will make fresh "pasta", "gnocchi" and "agnolotti". Should you feel adventurous, we can even learn how to cook "spezzatino" or "risotto". We will mostly learn the basics of all this: "il soffritto" without which none of the above will work properly. Whenever available we strictly use organic ingredients.
Obviously after the hard work, we are all going to taste how good what we have made is, by savoring the outcome on our terrace overlooking the Canale valley.
Join in: we will have fun !!!
The cook, Franco
