Aloha Bread Lovers

Aloha Bread Lovers – This Sunday we will be calling upon Uncle Yosef to make an appearance. Uncle Yosef is the name that we have given to our version of Katchapuri – a dish originating in Georgia (the one that used to be part of the USSR, not the U.S.). It is flat bread filled with three kinds of cheese and some spinach. When you order it we crack an egg over it and bake it all together in the oven, topping it off with a healthy dousing of olive oil and some chopped green onions.

Yael and I have been enjoying playing around with our new pasta machine which is in itself a marvel of Italian engineering. This week we put a Bucatini die on the extruder to make some killer fresh pasta. Bucatini is a narrow, hollow tube pasta about 10 inches long. It is said to have originated in Sicily sometime in the Middle Ages. Its name comes from Buca which is hole in Italian referring to the hollow center. This allows the pasta to absorb sauces. Bucatini is traditionally served with Amitriciana sauce, whose origins are not surprisingly in Amitrice. This is a sauce made with guanciale (pork cheeks), pecorino cheese, San Marzano tomatoes (a variety of plum tomatoes),black pepper, peperocino (Italian chili pepper) dry white wine, salt and some olive oil. Celebrity chef Carlo Cracco had the audacity to suggest that you could sauté an unpeeled clove of garlic in the sauce and then remove it before serving. This drew a quick rebuke from the former mayor of Amitrice who categorically rejected this idea…stay in your lane Carlo and don’t mess with the sauce. We sell our pasta in 10oz. bags for $10 (sort of like the dime bags of contraband that we used to buy back in the day…).

Mahalo – David and Yael

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