Stuffed pastas
I just read here that Italians buy 49 thousand tons of stuffed pastas each year. That’s 98 million pounds or about 48 million kilos. Add to that the many thousands of tons made by loving mothers and grandmothers and a few men. My neighbors would rather strip naked in the streets than buy tortellini!
If you count only the bought, it comes to a mere 1.66 pounds, less than a kilo, per person, but that includes people who are in comas and babies still nursing.
Just yesterday I ate a salad made of tortelli and cucumbers and tomatoes. Very nice it was, too. I made it with a nicely herbed vinaigrette, ladled the hot pasta over the cool vegetables and eccola!
How much stuffed pasta does your household consume?
While I have to admit to buying some stuffed pasta, I must say that my suocera makes the best tortellini. She got the recipe from her niece who moved up to the Ferrara area years ago. They\\\’re great in brodo and we eat them whenever we can convince her to make them. Yummm.
Mary! Up for air? I too accept all invitations that include stuffed pastas, but I find I can’t usually eat anything else afterwards.
Stuffed pasta is delicious, but WAY labor intensive to make. I wonder if that has anything to do with the “low” per captia consumption. Maybe it’s similar to what I understand women go through in childbirth: in retrospect, a wonderful experience; in the moment, painful and messy.
@Brad’ll Do It:
Oh Brad, don’t say it! It’s a learning curve and once you get it, it’s easy. Really! It takes a lot of time the first few times, but you have my permission to make big ole floppy ones and those take no time at all.
“Big ole floppy ones” is not something either a man or a woman of a certain age wants to consider, but I ’spose it’s okay for pasta.
Snoirk!