Sara’s Weeknight Meals: Season 14

Episode 1405: My Italian Kitchen

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An Italian American home cook, Pasqua Laghezza, shows me how her family makes a simple, delicious Frittata back home in Puglia, paired with a Salad with Roasted Lemon Dressing. Then it’s off to Rome for a street food tour with an American ex-pat, Katie Parla, who shares a secret place for a killer mortadella sandwich and Suppli, Roman deep fried rice balls. In the kitchen, we make three Roman pastas from one simple base – Gricia made with guanciale transforms into Amatriciana by adding tomatoes or Carbonara by adding eggs.

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Recipes

Pasqua’s Puglian Frittata

Garden Gems Salad with Roasted Lemon Dressing

Three Roman Pastas

THANKS TO:

Pasqua Laghezza, grew up in Puglia where her family owned a seaside restaurant. She loved the place so much, that when she followed her husband Franco to Miami, she made him promise she could return to Italy each summer with their two boys. She loves cooking for her family, making the heritage recipes she learned from her mother and grandmother. And her side passion? She is a B ribbon competitive body builder!

Katie Parla is the acclaimed author, publisher, television and podcast host, journalist, culinary guide, and educator based in Rome. She has written, edited or contributed to more than 35 books, including her most recent: “The Foods of the Italian Islands.”

Places I visited with Katie:

FORNO CAMPO DE FIORI Campo de’ Fiori, 22, 00186 Roma RM, Italy⋅
(Location for Mortadella Sandwiches on Pizza Bianca)

SUPPLIZIO Via dei Banchi Vecchi, 14300186 Roma RM, Italy
(Location for suppli, the Roman fried rice balls filled with meat sauce and mozzarella)

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