Walk into a serious Italian kitchen at eight in the morning and you will smell the same thing. Onion, carrot and celery cooking slowly in olive oil. That is soffritto. It sits underneath ragù, minestrone, braises and half the sauces that define Italian cooking. Done...
If your sauce ends up in a pool at the bottom of the bowl, the recipe is not the problem. The finishing step is. In an Italian kitchen the pasta is never sauced in the bowl. It is finished in the pan.Pasta water is an ingredientThe water pasta cooks in carries...
Risotto alla Milanese is the dish Milan is judged by. It has four ingredients that matter and four steps that decide the result. Most home versions fail at step one, not step four.Start with the tostaturaToast the rice dry, or in a little butter, until the grains turn...
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