I want a “Nonna knife” ❤ Maria is the most vibrant 94 yr old I’ve ever seen!!❤❤❤I’m soooo hungry right now, my mouth is watering for a bowl of her pasta!🎉
In addition to their skills and sympathy, always to be admired is the temperament of these Italian grandmothers who, even at their age, have a temperament like a young girl (maybe even more !). 😊💕
What a beautiful soul! Her love for her family, her willingness to teach her great grandchildren, her use of the pasta to get every drop from the pan!! Thank for sharing her story with us! Brava, Maria!!
She reminds me of my Granny. I learned everything I know about cooking from watching her well into her 80’s when she passed. Everyone says I’m a great cook. The credit is all hers. 🙏🏼💙
I ricordi di Maria scaldano il cuore e riempiono di gioia e benessere l'intera giornata. Bravi ragazzi, la condivisione di queste storie e delle tradizioni italiane vi fanno merito. Evviva bisnonna Maria!!!
Thank you for the video. Wonderful to watch her. What a beautiful view too. Duck eggs are the best. Her arms are so toned at 94. Gotta get to making homemade pasta.
Another gem! Maria, like so many of these elegant ladies, speaks of her life of sacrifices and shrugs them off. Such strong women. The great grandchildren have not idea how fortunate they are to have such a skilled teacher in the their great grandmother.
I already lost both of my grandmothers and there is not a single day that goes by, on which I don't wish I could hug them firmly in my arms and thank them for all they have done for me...😢😢❤❤
So wonderful to watch Maria sharing her cooking skills with the young children…and showing her love through her food. Food and family…a match made in heaven! TFS, Sharon♥️🤗
Little Ilara reminds me of myself at her age, I used to watch my mother make homemade pasta, watching every detail as my mom rolled out the pasta sheets, on the wooden board my father made for her.I’d take a piece and eat it raw too 😂 We look alike too. Goosebumps and bittersweet watching this. ❤ My mother Giuseppina, would have been 89 last month ❤
I love this video. She want to teach the kids also, and they will grow up and be very good cooks making pasta from scratch. She is also funny and full of life.
Including the grandkids made this one of the best PG vids, ever! They're so lucky to have someone to share her wisdom and experience, not to mention the obvious love and affection of the whole family. ANd how lucky for her to have such an interesting back story and to still be sharp and active at 94. Bravo!
What a wonderful lady, her happiness came through and her skill in making pasta was a gem to treasure. Her great grand son looked quite interested in what she was doing and perhaps he will make a great chef one day! another fabulous find, thank you Vicky and team. Ramon.
My great-aunts were like this in their mid 90s. Once I asked my favorite, Arduina, which changes she'd seen that she liked the most. I expected her to say cars or planes or tv, but instead she said it was being able to throw away her black kerchief and clothes and go and get her hair done once a week, even if her husband didn't like it! That vibrancy, humor, wit, love of life are qualities so many of these women of a certain age share, and yet they had such incredibly hard lives, and experienced such tragedy, sorrow, war, even hunger and disease without benefit of modern medicines. I can't explain it, but I know we'll lose people who are irreplaceable when they're gone.
That's a good sized platter of pasta. There's something joyful about seeing a mound like that coming out to the table. It may be simple but I'll bet its tasty & leaves everyone replete. I was having a chortle when she was talking about what she inherited from her mother-in-law one minute, then giving her daughter-in law a hard time the next. Yet I imagine she'll leave her utensils with love to her one day. Great video thanks, & that field of sunflowers cheered me up on this cold & frosty morning [with snow forecast too I might add].
hi James, Maria lives with her son and daughter in law and it seems there is quite a bit of amiable banter. Hopefully the snow has now thawed! best wishes, Vicky
Wanted to reach thru the screen for a plate of that delicious pasta! Love how these women cook those amazing dishes & tell us their interesting life stories. Also, they make it look so easy.
That pasta is making me drool!!! Yummy...yes her daughter in law should listen to her! What a sweet woman she really was blessed. Marrying young having great grandchildren...lucky ..she looks amazing and has all her teeth!
Pasta Grannies I love all of your videos, it makes me want to go to Italy to say hello to everyone. I am just waiting for my kids to have children now then I'll be the grandma lol
Your videos are always so heartwarming! Lovely Maria and her sweet grandchildren were so endearing; family, and its history, at its best. An aside, I inherited a "slim" cook's knife from my mother that is probably 80 years old and now more resembles a long boning knife. It handled age much the same as Maria's from all the honing by my father!
What a loving and present mind this grandma is, or else i have seen almost every old lady to be short tempered , getting irritated quickly, drooping face everytime But this grandma ia full of life very beautiful
Lol, that knife has a history, who knows how many meals it has been used for and how many cans of preserved food it has helped make. Love it when grandmas know how to cook and can always teach you something about preparing food. Also this is tonights dinner :P
She's great Nonna, always joking, love her sense of humor and her appreciation of everything she has, she isn't shy to say that she comes from the poorest family in town and got married to her husband who is wealthy, such a radiant and joy energy
Maria is definitely one of my favourites, despite marrying into money she’s kept her humility…except with her daughter in law's passata. She has a wicked sense of humour and I’m sure her great grandchildren will be grateful for having known her in later life.
I remember she told us her husband returned from the war in shorts - something to do with spending time with Australians, which they all thought was really strange. 🙂 best wishes, Vicky
The greatest women ever they don't make them like that anymore, especially with all those skills.... only a few daughters or grandchildren would've learned from them and put into practice..... hopefully, there are some... grazie per tutti 💋
Her arthritic hands remind me of love and hard work. How often do the function of those arthritic joints actually improve the recipe but are not defined by the ingredient list or instructions
Aw, I would adopt that 'ugly' knife, it's doing at least as well as its owner for their age...very curious about the preferential use of duck egg in this pasta when she has chickens (and guinea fowl!) available, it must be for something other than bulk. Breaking up rather than stretching the gluten in the pasta to release tension in the dough is some lovely 'kitchen science' too. I hope her rich postwar husband didn't treat his teenage bride too badly, that 'it was a different time' says a lot.
This is the real deal. Fast food masquerading as Italian is just toxic crap. High end restaurants serving fancy Italian dishes is just snobbery. This is real authentic food made by real people for real people.
I'm sure the children get some of the wine. I grew up on "baptized wine", a finger or two of wine topped up by bottled water. Of course, home made wine is about 3% alcohol and that little has virtually none. I always tell people it does no harm. Italy has one of the lowest if not the lowest alcoholism rates in Europe. I never saw young people drunk growing up, or, God forbid, a woman. Men might get a little "happy" at family parties, but nothing like I see here. In all my life I don't think I ever saw my father or any of his 6 brothers actually drunk. As for the tagliatelle, just how we make them, except we chop up the "odori", the onion, carrot, and celery, and we don't put in basil, and perhaps 1 whole garlic clove which is then removed.
yes my great-grandmother would put a biscott in a small glass, fill with wine and let the biscott soak it up before giving it to us kids. She said it would make our blood strong (and softened the cookie a little so we didn't break a baby tooth!)
I noticed that in my own family and even more so when I started traveling to Italy to visit my relatives. Drunkenness is really frowned upon and wine is considered to be another form of nourishment. Because it's not this forbidding adult thing, it doesn't have the cultural allure that it does here.
Imagine being able to stand next to your great grandmother and watch while she cooks these traditional dishes...what a gift!
yes ❤
I want a “Nonna knife” ❤ Maria is the most vibrant 94 yr old I’ve ever seen!!❤❤❤I’m soooo hungry right now, my mouth is watering for a bowl of her pasta!🎉
In addition to their skills and sympathy, always to be admired is the temperament of these Italian grandmothers who, even at their age, have a temperament like a young girl (maybe even more !). 😊💕
What a wonderful find ! She was delightful 95 but still 25 in her heart and whipped up lunch for her great-grandchildren like it was nothing !!
What a beautiful soul! Her love for her family, her willingness to teach her great grandchildren, her use of the pasta to get every drop from the pan!! Thank for sharing her story with us! Brava, Maria!!
Her banter about the daughter in law 😂
Daughter-in-law is doubtless thrilled.
the daughter inlaw is useless
Wow, how full of life she is at 94. You can really tell that she enjoys life with her family close and thats exactly what keeps her alive :)
incredible!such a vitality at 95!love this lady! 💗
She reminds me of my Granny. I learned everything I know about cooking from watching her well into her 80’s when she passed. Everyone says I’m a great cook. The credit is all hers. 🙏🏼💙
I ricordi di Maria scaldano il cuore e riempiono di gioia e benessere l'intera giornata. Bravi ragazzi, la condivisione di queste storie e delle tradizioni italiane vi fanno merito. Evviva bisnonna Maria!!!
Grazie mille❤❤
Having a GREAT gran so spry just casually making you some pasta for lunch is incredible.
Thank you for the video. Wonderful to watch her. What a beautiful view too. Duck eggs are the best.
Her arms are so toned at 94. Gotta get to making homemade pasta.
Another gem! Maria, like so many of these elegant ladies, speaks of her life of sacrifices and shrugs them off. Such strong women. The great grandchildren have not idea how fortunate they are to have such a skilled teacher in the their great grandmother.
I already lost both of my grandmothers and there is not a single day that goes by, on which I don't wish I could hug them firmly in my arms and thank them for all they have done for me...😢😢❤❤
Always lovel6 to see grandmother's cooking their family recepies
So wonderful to watch Maria sharing her cooking skills with the young children…and showing her love through her food. Food and family…a match made in heaven! TFS, Sharon♥️🤗
Little Ilara reminds me of myself at her age, I used to watch my mother make homemade pasta, watching every detail as my mom rolled out the pasta sheets, on the wooden board my father made for her.I’d take a piece and eat it raw too 😂 We look alike too. Goosebumps and bittersweet watching this. ❤ My mother Giuseppina, would have been 89 last month ❤
I'm glad the video bought back happy memories. best wishes Vicky
She is fabulous. What a pistol. So lively and honest. She will never forget her daughter-in-law’s failed passata. Brava.
Just amazing. I love her...
I’m in love with Maria !
This is such perennial nice picture, grand daughter loooking how grannie is cooking. This way i, v learnt how to cook just observing
"the wine is for the grown ups".. how things have changed.. I had my first sip when I was ten!
It was 1980 in Sardinia XD
Nothing like a nonas cooking ❤
" Tomatoes we're not ripe enough since it was made by my daughter-in-law and she doesn't know many things..." LMAO!!!!!!!!
The thing that gets me is that her DIL must be in her 60's or 70's herself 😂 Still has MIL saying she doesn't know what she's doing!
Hi Tony, the giggle and the gleams in Maria's eye made me think her daughter-in-law has a good laugh and banter with her. 🙂best wishes, Vicky
This is call real super Chef 👨🍳 👌 👏 🙌 lou 👍u .
Says, every MIL to wives of their sons...😅
What a wonderful video!! I love that the great grand children are there learning.
I love it. Reminds me of the old days.
I love this video. She want to teach the kids also, and they will grow up and be very good cooks making pasta from scratch. She is also funny and full of life.
These grannies are the national treasure
Including the grandkids made this one of the best PG vids, ever! They're so lucky to have someone to share her wisdom and experience, not to mention the obvious love and affection of the whole family. ANd how lucky for her to have such an interesting back story and to still be sharp and active at 94. Bravo!
Oh my goodness, to have a great grandma to teach you how to cook❤❤❤❤
What a wonderful lady, her happiness came through and her skill in making pasta was a gem to treasure. Her great grand son looked quite interested in what she was doing and perhaps he will make a great chef one day! another fabulous find, thank you Vicky and team. Ramon.
hi Ramon, he is more likely to make wine but it would be great if he enjoyed making pasta too! best wishes, Vicky
My great-aunts were like this in their mid 90s. Once I asked my favorite, Arduina, which changes she'd seen that she liked the most. I expected her to say cars or planes or tv, but instead she said it was being able to throw away her black kerchief and clothes and go and get her hair done once a week, even if her husband didn't like it! That vibrancy, humor, wit, love of life are qualities so many of these women of a certain age share, and yet they had such incredibly hard lives, and experienced such tragedy, sorrow, war, even hunger and disease without benefit of modern medicines. I can't explain it, but I know we'll lose people who are irreplaceable when they're gone.
that's a great story, thanks for sharing! best wishes, Vicky
That is so lovely 😍
I grew up in Italy and this is bringing back my childhood memories. The passata fatta a casa 🤌🏻👌🏼
That's a good sized platter of pasta. There's something joyful about seeing a mound like that coming out to the table. It may be simple but I'll bet its tasty & leaves everyone replete.
I was having a chortle when she was talking about what she inherited from her mother-in-law one minute, then giving her daughter-in law a hard time the next. Yet I imagine she'll leave her utensils with love to her one day.
Great video thanks, & that field of sunflowers cheered me up on this cold & frosty morning [with snow forecast too I might add].
hi James, Maria lives with her son and daughter in law and it seems there is quite a bit of amiable banter. Hopefully the snow has now thawed! best wishes, Vicky
Wanted to reach thru the screen for a plate of that delicious pasta! Love how these women cook those amazing dishes & tell us their interesting life stories. Also, they make it look so easy.
This is hands down the best pomodoro recipe so far.
Complimenti, Signora! E grazie di aver condivido il suo arte! 💚🤍❤
Dialect from Marche must be one of the most happy-go-lucky sounding of all of Italy.
Actually she is not even speaking a dialect, she has a typical accent of the area.
Che, non ge vien-ni a dà un bagetto a non-na? 😂
That pasta is making me drool!!! Yummy...yes her daughter in law should listen to her! What a sweet woman she really was blessed. Marrying young having great grandchildren...lucky ..she looks amazing and has all her teeth!
Those kidos remind me of my grandma (watching her cooking) ❤ memories 😊
Pasta Grannies I love all of your videos, it makes me want to go to Italy to say hello to everyone. I am just waiting for my kids to have children now then I'll be the grandma lol
Mi ricorda la mia infanzia.
This video for me was like trip in a time machine. ❤
I like how the kids get the second-best pasta sauce!
it's probably their moms lol
Such a treasure to have all that love and not many people will know what it’s like to have homemade pasta.
Which is a shame because it's simple, cheap fast food.
Your videos are always so heartwarming! Lovely Maria and her sweet grandchildren were so endearing; family, and its history, at its best. An aside, I inherited a "slim" cook's knife from my mother that is probably 80 years old and now more resembles a long boning knife. It handled age much the same as Maria's from all the honing by my father!
Every video from yall makes me feel warm and fuzzy inside. And I learn so much about pasta techniques! Truly a wonder and a blessing 🙌
So glad! 🙂🌺
Blessed hands🙏Grazie
Mrs. Castracini was absolutely charming😊
What a loving and present mind this grandma is, or else i have seen almost every old lady to be short tempered , getting irritated quickly, drooping face everytime
But this grandma ia full of life very beautiful
8 '26 minutes of pure joy..
Look at that backdrop, no wonder she looks so good at 94. Just beautiful! And that pasta looks deliziosa.
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BRAVO !!!!
Just what one needs, such a magnificent, wholesome episode.
It's amazing how much energy she has, and I love the passion she showcases.
Lol, that knife has a history, who knows how many meals it has been used for and how many cans of preserved food it has helped make.
Love it when grandmas know how to cook and can always teach you something about preparing food.
Also this is tonights dinner :P
Reminds me of my father... he made great tagliatelle. Rest in peace dad.
A nonna sei uno spettacolo puro
She's great Nonna, always joking, love her sense of humor and her appreciation of everything she has, she isn't shy to say that she comes from the poorest family in town and got married to her husband who is wealthy, such a radiant and joy energy
❤️❤️ Sweet woman. Made my day
Fabulous. What a joy and a treasure.
Bonjorno!! I loved watching this and learned something new about the sauce!!! I may have to try to make my own pasta like Maria!
If I could , I'd love to have belonged to one of these families.
They know that family is all, and the Nonna's are just the most beautiful of people.
I'm making this tonight, hoping the dish turns out as tasty as it looks. thank you for sharing
Love it! Bless her soul
Another delightful episode. It's interesting that I never see a rubber spatula to scrape the sauce from the pot.....the pasta does a good job!
Maria is definitely one of my favourites, despite marrying into money she’s kept her humility…except with her daughter in law's passata. She has a wicked sense of humour and I’m sure her great grandchildren will be grateful for having known her in later life.
I would like to hear more about her life story. It was very interesting when she started talking about her husband...
I remember she told us her husband returned from the war in shorts - something to do with spending time with Australians, which they all thought was really strange. 🙂 best wishes, Vicky
Heartwarming!
Gracias a María por compartir su receta y preparación valiosa.❤
she's so funny, i love her 😭
Ilaria . . . I am melting away . . .
The greatest women ever they don't make them like that anymore, especially with all those skills.... only a few daughters or grandchildren would've learned from them and put into practice..... hopefully, there are some... grazie per tutti 💋
Yummy pasta, grandma
Beautiful lady ❤ and yummy pasta 😋
Trop mignonne et malicieuse 😘😋
Grande nonna sei spettacolare sei superman!!
Salve Gianluca! È stato un piacere conoscere Maria. Sono sicuro di incontrarvi di nuovo quando compro dei vini 🙂🌺 Vicky
I love them all
❤❤❤ Grazie🌞
So sweet
Okay, at 4:45 I really want to hear the daughter-in-law's testimony on this issue....
Delicious!
Godbless you are amazing i would love to eat at your dinner table
Magical and Beautiful
She said mama Mia
Amazing
I miss granmom
Bravíssimo!... 🥰🥰
Her arthritic hands remind me of love and hard work. How often do the function of those arthritic joints actually improve the recipe but are not defined by the ingredient list or instructions
Those are some wildly lucky children!
Ottima❤❤❤❤❤❤
The funniest thing about this series is that nonnas break all "the rules" italians abroad usually make a fuss if broken by foreigners.
Duck egg pasta….that has to be good
her hands look so similar to my Grandmothers hands ❤
Aw, I would adopt that 'ugly' knife, it's doing at least as well as its owner for their age...very curious about the preferential use of duck egg in this pasta when she has chickens (and guinea fowl!) available, it must be for something other than bulk. Breaking up rather than stretching the gluten in the pasta to release tension in the dough is some lovely 'kitchen science' too. I hope her rich postwar husband didn't treat his teenage bride too badly, that 'it was a different time' says a lot.
Guten Appetit zusammen ⚘️
Not enough salt in that water. Love the Granny :)
❤proplo una delizia❤
👍👍
Mamma Mia🥰🥰
Ślinka leci..❤
I love how she blames her daughter in law for the sauce on TV.😂
Typical Nonna!
La battutina sulla nuora è troppo forte😀
This is the real deal. Fast food masquerading as Italian is just toxic crap. High end restaurants serving fancy Italian dishes is just snobbery. This is real authentic food made by real people for real people.
😍😍😍😍
I'm sure the children get some of the wine. I grew up on "baptized wine", a finger or two of wine topped up by bottled water. Of course, home made wine is about 3% alcohol and that little has virtually none. I always tell people it does no harm. Italy has one of the lowest if not the lowest alcoholism rates in Europe. I never saw young people drunk growing up, or, God forbid, a woman. Men might get a little "happy" at family parties, but nothing like I see here. In all my life I don't think I ever saw my father or any of his 6 brothers actually drunk. As for the tagliatelle, just how we make them, except we chop up the "odori", the onion, carrot, and celery, and we don't put in basil, and perhaps 1 whole garlic clove which is then removed.
yes my great-grandmother would put a biscott in a small glass, fill with wine and let the biscott soak it up before giving it to us kids. She said it would make our blood strong (and softened the cookie a little so we didn't break a baby tooth!)
I noticed that in my own family and even more so when I started traveling to Italy to visit my relatives. Drunkenness is really frowned upon and wine is considered to be another form of nourishment. Because it's not this forbidding adult thing, it doesn't have the cultural allure that it does here.
My grandfather's wine was pretty potent!