Saturday 18 February 2012

Creating with food - Roman style pizzas

 
Spending the day in cooking school near Rathdowney today has to be a highlight for me and WMBM as we joined new friends in Pizze alla Pietro! What a treat to be taught by the experts and spend a day with Desley and Pietro Agnoletto at  Classi di Cucina Italiana. From a delightful cook-your-own morning tea, to calzone and pizzas-to-diet-for. We learnt so much - history and technical expertise all shared with  samplings of local wines from the Rathdowney area. Desley and Pietro once cooked thousand of pizzas for Uni students at St Lucia and now offer a quieter paced, intimate setting for learning the finer arts of Italian cuisine. We chose wood fired pizzas - and will return for a pasta and sauces master class in the near future. WMBM and Pietro (above) led the creation of eight delicious offerings - including a desert pizza to finish.  Desley and Pietro's property is a nature refuge that also accommodated numerous alpacas, Cairo the camel, numerous goannas and a plethora of naturally occurring wildlife!
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6 comments:

Anonymous said...

Wow wow wow. ... Looks magical!

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Kate said...

Great shots - what a location!

Judy said...

Ooooooh Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah
that looks the go ............what a gorgeous setting and I can taste the calzone with a red sitting her at 509

Maggie said...

Hi, I'm new to your blog! Looking forward to seeing your beautiful work :) Maggie xx

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Sue Dennis said...

I think we ate many of their pizzas at St Lucia in the 1970's. There was a great pizza place- not there now.