Learn to Cook - Holidays and Property in Abruzzo

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Learn How to cook: *Fresh Tri-color Pasta* The base for all first course Italian meals. Learn how to make plain, tomato and spinach pasta with no artificial colouring
*Real Tomato Passata:* Tomato passata made with only natural ingredients. The base ingredient for all Italian cooking. Learn how to make it from fresh tomatoes
*Cannelloni from Fresh Pasta:* Cannelloni. Stuffed tubes of oven baked pasta. Your imagination can go wild when inventing your filling.
*Gnocchi:* Fresh Gnocchi. Small pasta shapes made out of potato and flour. You can make them yourself and see how easy they really are to make.
*Lasagna:* Lasagna. Every region of Italy has a different version. Oven backed pasta layers with tomato sauce and mince meat for a simple Abruzzese version.
*Ravioli:* Slightly more difficult cooking with Ravioli. Stuffed parcels of pasta served with tomato sauce but loved by everybody A surprise to dinner guests when they hear you made them.
*Barbeque all'Italiana:* Grilling on the BBQ is not always associated with the Italians. With an Italian twist learn some tricks about how Italians cook on the barbeque in there grand style
*Grilled and Fried Peppers:* Peppers are in abundance through August in Abruzzo central Italy. Some ideas for some delicious meals
*-Making Wine:* The wine making process is one passed down the generations, with little progress and many tools being used as they were fifty years ago. Once the grapes have been picked, a messy job, they are dropped into a wooden box and passed through a tool to break them up. The grapes are then loaded into a wooden press where they have the juice squeezed out of them. The left over grapes are broken up and squeezed a second time. The juice is left in barrels and on the 11th November ready for tasting.