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Farro Strozzapreti with Broccoli Rabe, Hot Cappacola, and Fennel Seeds

Posted in Skinny Guinea on January 29, 2008| 1 Comment »

Cappacola
The secret ingredient: cappacola.

Recipe:

Farro Strozzapreti with Broccoli Rabe, Hot Cappacola, and Fennel Seeds

Pasta with broccoli rabe and sausage is one of my all-time favorite dishes going back to childhood, a Southern Italian classic that I still indulge in from time to time. But I’ve found a much less bloating alternative to the fatty pork sausage and tons of olive oil I generally like to throw into it. I’ve replaced the sausage with capacolla, a lean but extremely flavorful air-dried pork shoulder that originated in Calabria (in Northern Italy it’s called coppa). With capacolla I can get a rich pork taste without all the grease. And the great thing about this pasta is that it’s in no way a compromise. Capacolla isn’t a substitute for sausage but an elegant product on its own that makes for a pasta loaded with authentic Southern Italian flavor. And I include a little reminder of the original dish by including fennel seeds in the mix, a palate-teasing trick, but a good one. (more…)

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Lost Recipes Found: Regina’s Puglian Doughnuts

Posted in Lost Recipes Found on January 20, 2008| 16 Comments »

Zeppoli.
Zeppole with vino cotto.

Recipe:

Zeppole with vino cotto.

Hi Erica,

I first discovered your website while searching for pizza de scarola. Now I am intrigued by your “Lost Recipes Found” section. A few years back I wrote a cookbook with all my Nana’s recipes. It’s called Who Has Nana’s Recipe? My website is whohasnanasrecipe.com.

Unfortunately, one recipe lost with Nana’s passing was of a dessert. It was shaped like a doughnut hole and fried; then she soaked it in a raisin syrup called vino cotto. We have the syrup recipe; we are just not sure how she made the doughnut hole that eventually got soaked in it. I am assuming it was made with yeast, as I recall its having a spongy consistency when we ate it as children.

I wonder if it is similar to a zeppole recipe. My mom doesn’t think so.

Nana came from the Puglia region. Her town was Toritto, just southwest of Bari.

Any help you can provide would be very much appreciated.

Thank you,

Regina (more…)

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