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Today, we’re on the search for lost treasure! Well, lost recipes to be exact… Italy has so much food, that many dishes are inevitably lost to time. Today, we’re investigating several recipes that have been forgotten in Italy. Help us decide if they’re worth reviving or not!
Big thanks to Luca Cesari, the real Indiana Jones of historical Italian food, for sharing his knowledge with us again! Check out his new book, “The Discovery of Pasta: A History in Ten Dishes” here: https://amzn.to/3gOMwbS (affiliate)
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BANANA & SAUSAGE BRUSCHETTA RECIPE – https://www.pastagrammar.com/post/banana-sausage-bruschetta-an-interesting-taste-from-italy-s-past
ORIGINAL LASAGNA ALLA BOLOGNESE RECIPE – https://www.pastagrammar.com/post/the-original-lasagna-alla-bolognese-recipe
PENNE ALLA VODKA RECIPE – https://www.pastagrammar.com/post/penne-alla-vodka-the-authentic-italian-recipe
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31 Comments
If you had to pick ONE of these dishes to save from lost recipe purgatory, which would it be and why?
In Central America and the Caribbean's, fried bananas are common there and eaten with meat. This was due to the slave trade with Africa.
Are you sure they used bananas and not plantain? They look similar. Plantains are not sweet.
In Brasil we put fried bananas on everything! It's delicious!!!
All the sausage and banana recipe needs is an easy over egg and I will call it breakfast.
that spinach dish is similar to Byrek in Albania
I wonder if you did the sausage and bananas with plantains instead of sweet bananas if you get a better combination
I actually Went to a brazilian Friend of mine and She Made me taste a dish with beans, sausage and fried bananas! It was very good, but the sausage wasnt the tipical italian one! I would love to see Eva try all south american and asians food traditions!
I've never understood the allure of Penne all Vodka, simply because vodka imparts ZERO TASTE!
What people like is the tomato+cream combo.
It's a lot easier to open a banana from the other end.
Ok these recipes are definitely very weird, especially the first one with banana and sausage 🙉 there is a reason why they are forgotten recipes 😂
🤣🤣🤣 I have to agree with Luca about the banana and sausage combo. Eva's mama is so funny!!
I would do the lasagna but add a bechamel, parmesan and probably some sausage.
Hi guys! I oved the dishes! One thing I would like to add- In my family we slow and low fry liver slices in butter (salt pepper and dusted in flour) then take the liver out and in the same pan fry the banana and serve it together – mostly with mashed potatoes 🙂 So yeah, I knew about bananas and meat together b4! Ciao
The video was great as always, but the conversation with Eva's mom… PRICELESS!!
Wow. After watching ya'll for so long, I do believe this is the first time I've seen Eva speak in Italian. Great video. There is a lost American recipe for mac n cheese, from around the 1920s, called 'baked macaroni and cheese with tomatoes.' It was brought back by the good folks at America's Test Kitchen. It's so good, it's the only mac n cheese I ever make anymore. It calls for waaay too much cheese. (There is no such thing as too much cheese.)
I vote for the Lasagna Bolognese.
I would totally revive penne alla vodka – I love the 80s – and the banana and sausage bruschetta, that was really interesting
Non solo . Devo provare le banane e salsiccia prima. Ti farò sapere. Non mi piace la penne alla vodka. Troppo crema.
Great video PG!
Ho sbagliato, non so.
Peel bananas from the bottom. It's easier and you have a built-in handle. 😘
The banana and sausage on toast looks like a tic-tok vidio.
I thought the banana and sausage would be good simply because pork is so good with sugar in any way. BBQ sauce, pineapple etc….
I would love to meet up with Ava and have her teach me a little bit more of how to make the creamy sauce for carbonara and not have it turned out so clump cheesy I mix it with the eggs and I pour it in slowly and continue to toss I put a little bit of pasta water in it I don't know
Where is the video where you explain how to use the nordvpn I've been thinking about getting it?
Use the right banana Luke.
In Europe and North America there is only one banana, the Cavendish banana which is sweet and soft. In Africa, Asia and South America there area large variety of bananas; there are yellow bananas, green, bananas, pink bananas, red bananas, sweet bananas, sour bananas, soft bananas, hard bananas, creamy bananas…
in these countries there are bananas wich are like potatoes, you must cook they before eating.
In South America they are named plantanos and are pretty good when fried like a potato chips.
I can't eat the /merdaccia/ you cooked but I ate fried plantano and I think fried plantano will be amazing with fried /cervellatine/.
Post scriptum: I think you have to consult a better expert.
In Germany we love to make a similar lasagna with spinach, but we like to add salmon and a creamy sauce like bechamel. There is also a variant that uses feta cheese instead of salmon. In both dishes, we could not help, there has to be cheese on top 🧀
I think I would like to try the banana sausage one!!!
yes, I remember that video. you missed out on the chance of a lifetime due to being sick.
Perhaps pineapple pizza is a lost Italian dish… shhhhh
You guys should attempt to revive a very old version of lasagna – skryliai in Lithuanian or lazanki in Polish from XVI century.
It comes from times when Bona Sforza, Italian wife of King Sigismund I the Old, King of Poland and Lithuania, brought high Italian cuisine to both countries. Lazanki/skryliai is reminiscent of the Italian lasagne, only instead of large, flat rectangles, you make little ones, like when you cut shapes for ravioli, but this time you don't fold them, just boil them as they are and serve with onion, bacon and cream sauce (no vodka involved). To get into the XVI century fusion feasts you might serve them with shredded game meat or mushroom sauce.
This is one of the simplest and most unexpected dished, that got migrated 500 years ago to the parts of Europe Italians still know little about. Skryliai/lazanki are kids pasta here, just like original pasta ala Alfredo.