Tag Archives: platinum palate
Platinum Palate™ Showcase: Toscana Saporita Cooking School: The Advanced Class Day 3: Focaccia Dough, Creme Brûlée, Broccoli Rabe, and Time to Mangia!
Some fun composites from Day 3! Alessio J.M. Da Prato (Sandra’s son), a master bread and pizza maker, showing us how to start the dough for pizza and focaccia! Chef Chris Covelli kneading the dough. Tortellini in Brodo Plating the … Continue reading
Posted in Platinum Palate Partners
Tagged focaccia, pizza, platinum palate, stinco di maiale, toscana saporita
Comments Off on Platinum Palate™ Showcase: Toscana Saporita Cooking School: The Advanced Class Day 3: Focaccia Dough, Creme Brûlée, Broccoli Rabe, and Time to Mangia!
Platinum Palate™ Showcase: Toscana Saporita Cooking School: The Advanced Class Day 3: Tortelli di Zucca (Butternut Squash-Filled Pasta) Lesson!
This morning we learned to make a classic, elegant Tuscan pasta, Tortelli (think Tortellini are smaller version of stuffed pasta), filled with ricotta and pureed butternut squash. We made them with two different colored pastas we made from scratch. You … Continue reading
Posted in Platinum Palate Partners
Tagged butternut squash, cooking school, pasta, platinum palate, sandra lotti, tortelli di zucca, toscana saporita
Comments Off on Platinum Palate™ Showcase: Toscana Saporita Cooking School: The Advanced Class Day 3: Tortelli di Zucca (Butternut Squash-Filled Pasta) Lesson!
Platinum Palate™ Showcase: Toscana Saporita Cooking School: The Advanced Class: Day 2 (The first day of instruction, Part 1) Knife Skills, Oxidation, Pesto with Ligurian Croxetti
The “Puccini” walking-running-biking trail. Monday morning was beautiful, a little cool, probably in the mid-50’s. I bundled up and ran for an hour around the property, came back, cleaned up, and headed to breakfast. The area is great for exercise– … Continue reading
Posted in Platinum Palate Partners
Tagged cooking school, croxetti, knife skills, pesto, platinum palate, sandra lotti, toscana saporita
Comments Off on Platinum Palate™ Showcase: Toscana Saporita Cooking School: The Advanced Class: Day 2 (The first day of instruction, Part 1) Knife Skills, Oxidation, Pesto with Ligurian Croxetti
Ever Dreamed of Attending Cooking School in Tuscany? I Know the Perfect Place! Read About My Week at Platinum Palate™ Toscana Saporita! The Advanced Class Day 1 (Arriving and Dinner)
La Casa Rossa, the working farm/estate where Toscana Saporita is conducted, was once the childhood home of Italian composer, Puccini! If your bucket list contains something like: “Cooking School in Italy,” “Cooking School in Tuscany,” “A week on a Tuscan … Continue reading
Posted in Platinum Palate Partners
Tagged cooking school, platinum palate, sandra lotti, toscana saporita, tuscany
Comments Off on Ever Dreamed of Attending Cooking School in Tuscany? I Know the Perfect Place! Read About My Week at Platinum Palate™ Toscana Saporita! The Advanced Class Day 1 (Arriving and Dinner)
Fred Bollaci Attends Event With New Platinum Palate™ Toscana Saporita Cooking School and Zonin Wines at The Miami Culinary Institute
Fred Bollaci recently spent an incredible evening at The Miami Culinary Institute on February 29th with Chef Sandra Rosy Lotti, inaugural worldwide Platinum Palate award winner and member, and her son Alessio JM Da Prato of Toscana Saporita Cooking School in … Continue reading
Posted in News and Interviews, Platinum Palate Partners
Tagged alessio jm da prato, bruschetta, chianti, cooking school, culinary school, english trifle, italian, lotti, maremma, miami, pappa al pomodoro, platinum palate, porchetta, prosecco, ravioli, sage, sandra rosy lotti, spinach, tuscan, tuscany, zonin, zuppa inglese
Comments Off on Fred Bollaci Attends Event With New Platinum Palate™ Toscana Saporita Cooking School and Zonin Wines at The Miami Culinary Institute
