Thank you so much Vicky for this opportunity😍 my family and I are so proud of our granny Lucia, our friend Caterina, our little Miriam and our traditional pasta ❤
Dear Veronica, thank you for sharing your family! We had a lovely morning with you all.. You can see from the comments and number of views this episode is very popular and I hope Lucia, Miriam and Caterina are pleased. ❤️🌺 very best wishes, Vicky
Veronica Russo - Veronica you are truly blessed to have such lovely and special ladies in your life. Thank you for sharing them along with Miriam with the rest of the world. Let them know they have fans who adore them across the world in Miami, Florida USA! God bless them all and may they have many more delicious cooking days together! Cheers Veronica! Caio, John
What my little family would give to have a beautiful family such as yours to pass down traditions that last generations. Your Granny, her friend, and the little girl are beautiful lovely examples of what makes life so very special. It's the little things that make life HUGE. Love from the USA.
You have every right to be proud of such a great family. Stay happy, healthy and wonderful - and please give those two wonderful grandmas a big hug from me! Grazie mille for sharing that delicious recipe with us. ❤️ (I'd give my right arm if I could hug my own grandmas once more and thank them for everything they have done... and eat one more dish they have cooked.)
They're gorgeous. And it's absolutely beautiful. Grandmotherly love is precious - and grandma food is the most delicious thing in the world. If I had the choice between some fancy Three-Michelin-Star 9 course dinner and something a loving grandma whipped up for me - grandma wins. Hands down.
I so love this channel! I had some sad news this morning about the untimely passing of a dear friend and thought "Pasta Grannies will do the trick!" and these two lovely women did! Caterina so reminds me of my beloved Grandmother who always took the time to include her grand and great-grand children in the art of making her favorite dishes we still talk about and are passing on to her great-great grandchildren. The only challenge we had - that I'm sure many of us still have - was getting an actual recipe with measurements as, like Caterina and Lucia, she was an eyeball/feel/smell cook and when asked she'd say "you'll know when it's enough" and roll her eyes...
Ohhh sooooo endearing. These two lovely and beautiful ladies and that little pretty bambina. Their art of cooking is amazing. Love all the grannies in the videos. Remind me of my own😊
Randy Sabbagh, just trial and error in the beginning, but you will eventually perfect it. I’m Italian and although I make most of these dishes, I still enjoy watching these lovely and wise women!
I grew up in an Italian-American family so I grew up eating Italian food and thought I knew everything about Italian home cooking. So far after binge-watching this channel it turns out there was something that seems to have gotten lost over the Atlantic that kinda blew my mind a little. Nutmeg! My grandmothers learned to make their sauce from their mothers and so on and neither of them used nutmeg...Nor does anyone else in my family. I had no idea but you can bet that the next time I made a red sauce I'm adding nutmeg to see what I've been missing.
When people tell you spaghetti and meatballs is an Italian-American invention, show them this. Different shaped pasta but pretty much identical. Grazie mille.
Huh look up spaghetti a la chittera con palottine(MEATBALLS). The only difference is that the meatballs are smaller in italy. Heck even ITALLISH a youtuber from ROME admitted his nonna fed him spaghetti with meatball(spaghetti con polpottine a la sugo). It is usually the northern italians who said no such things exist.
Tich Tran Exactly. Italian food is so different across the regions that people from one region may never have heard of something. And all people think that their life experiences are the same for everyone. Human nature.
@@tichtran664 Italians are fussy about pasta types and shapes. Eg, they object to spaghetti with a ragu alla bolognese because it's supposed to go with an egg tagliatelle. Spaghetti alla chitarra is also an egg pasta. And small meatballs simply work better with pasta of any kind.
Caterina and Lucia remind me so much of my Nonna who was born in Puglia in 1910. She emigrated to the US from Gioia del Colle as a very young girl yet managed to maintain the culinary traditions she was raised with. Grandma Rose always had a large garden of tomato plants and herbs. As a boy I would help her make passata over a wood fire. She would make large Sunday meals for her children and grandchildren consisting of her handmade orecchiette covered in red sauce made from her passata, and her meatballs like the ones in this video. My grandfather smoked his cigarette European-style under a grape trellis while my uncles accompanied my mother singing Italian songs on their accordions. Pasta grannies is more than a cooking channel to those of us who were blessed to have our very own pasta grannies, if only now in our memories. - thank you Vicki
It’s sad to think that once this generation is gone, those dishes will disappear too. Keep on discovering those Grannies!!! We need to have them immortalised for eternity!!! ❤❤
Thank you very much Vicky for a wonderfully informative channel on TH-cam. It's a terrific platform for these marvellous grannies to share their expertise with the world. I have been a subscriber going on a year now, and each video I watch is better than the last. God bless you!
Oooooh, that looks so ultra delicious. And the grandmas are gorgeous again. So nice and happy. :-) Thank you so much for the recipe! I'll absolutely try this.
So glad to have found this channel!!! I'm inspired to finally use my little pasta roller, and the OO flour in my freezer!!! Maybe even dream about moving to Italy, and re-establish my Orsini heritage roots!!!
Lucky we can never stop learning new things so I am enjoying your Videos now as My Son showed me this channel as one of his favorites as he loves to cook International cuisine I love to cook and preserve all from scratch, having learned hands on tough,(not relaxing video lessons) & lessons from friends, acquaintances and their family members, rare, like this in this video, from elders ,all my life, various parts of world, and cultures, My sadness is modern people whom I could make this , or many fine dishes from many cultures, for their dining, homemade artisan wine, with divine sheep or goats milk cheese, perfect noodles with heritage grains flour not gmo and magnificent crafted cheese, grass pastured beef and pork, would not appreciate the value, the quality, and uneducated, used to mass commercialism grocery store & chain restaurant food are often the rude or at least not recognising God Level Authenticity and Quality artisan cooking,modern dining guests that say "this cheese tastes funny," & " these noodles are weird", is homemade art wine safe, I'm not going to get sick are I? for example, ,,, UNLESS, they were served it in a very expensive Crystal plate months advanced reservations or VIP list restaurant. They would not even recognize the quality as being such a rare treat and almost lost art with the Box pasta, frozen mass produced food culture we live in.I wish I had friends ,neighbors and acquaintances to cook for who would appreciate. It has become such a rare occasion to even share something with someone who recognizes and says wow! This tastes JUST like How they make it when I traveled-- I.E. Italy, Turkey, Greece, Middle East, Philippines, Thailand, South pacific Islands etc.., To me when someone can place and recognize a authentic dish and flavor as local and name region or country, is a prize to me, not for my ego, but a win, just to have shared an art of cuisine craft with other who recognizes and appreciates ! Love the Video documentaries!
It's true - people's aversion to strong flavours comes from eating industrially produced food. We live in a time of food abundance which ironically means we are loosing the skills and the tastebuds needed for cooking from scratch. best wishes, Vicky
These videos are priceless and precious, thank you so much for filming and posting these!! One constructive comment though, the music is annoying and trivializes the videos (makes it sound like a kid's video game) - I would suggest removing the music or replacing with something more tasteful for future videos! Thank you for considering, it just negatively impacts the experience of watching these precious films.
hi Sara, thanks for your feedback. I commissioned the music for a couple of reasons: first TH-cam is rightly very strict about copyright infringement (ie using others tunes without paying for it). Secondly we don't always film in the sequence the video appears and there is quite a lot of conversation happening (it's not like 'proper' film where everyone has to be absolutely silent - we want our ladies to be comfortable) - it's hugely distracting to have random and disjointed noise and conversation in the background. The music gives continuity. Fortunately (from my perspective) the majority of folk actively like or don't notice the music. I don't think it would be possible to please everyone and I'm sorry you find it so annoying! best wishes, Vicky
So, if I have it correct - there are 2 types of past dough - one made with water and one with eggs. Why? Is it regional or are the pastas different for another reason?
Durum wheat "semola rimacinata" (double mill flour) with water (at most 1 egg for a kilo): it is high gluten flour. Common wheat (type 00 for pastry making, or types, 0, 1, 2; I use type 1 that's more raw) with eggs: it is a low gluten flour, the eggs substitute the gluten.
I imagine the popularity of cooking with palm oil is a relatively recent phenomenon, considering it is not a domestic product. These women are nearly 100 years old, so they probably spent the majority of their lives with access only to more traditional cooking oils.
MonsieurMosca I see you can’t grasp the difference, but yes, spaghetti and meatballs as in the american way doesn’t exist in Italy. This dish is a traditional hand made dish and definitely there are no spaghetti. Also Abruzzese spaghetti alla chitarra are not the common spaghetti, the way they are made is different. Also, the meatballs are tiny compared to the American ones. I believe the american spaghetti and meatball is just a reminiscence of these dishes realised by people who lost the ability to make them according to the original recipes. So they ended up using normal spaghetti as the closer thing to the original. Polpette became bigger as everything in the US is, and looked like they became the main dish with the pasta taking the place of side dish, while in Italy the dish in the video including the polpette is considered a first course.
Thank you so much Vicky for this opportunity😍 my family and I are so proud of our granny Lucia, our friend Caterina, our little Miriam and our traditional pasta ❤
Dear Veronica, thank you for sharing your family! We had a lovely morning with you all.. You can see from the comments and number of views this episode is very popular and I hope Lucia, Miriam and Caterina are pleased. ❤️🌺 very best wishes, Vicky
Veronica Russo - Veronica you are truly blessed to have such lovely and special ladies in your life. Thank you for sharing them along with Miriam with the rest of the world. Let them know they have fans who adore them across the world in Miami, Florida USA! God bless them all and may they have many more delicious cooking days together! Cheers Veronica! Caio, John
What my little family would give to have a beautiful family such as yours to pass down traditions that last generations. Your Granny, her friend, and the little girl are beautiful lovely examples of what makes life so very special. It's the little things that make life HUGE. Love from the USA.
You have every right to be proud of such a great family. Stay happy, healthy and wonderful - and please give those two wonderful grandmas a big hug from me! Grazie mille for sharing that delicious recipe with us. ❤️
(I'd give my right arm if I could hug my own grandmas once more and thank them for everything they have done... and eat one more dish they have cooked.)
I loved how the little girl and the nonna looked at each other! Great Dish!
atrinka rac -- Yes indeed, her granddaughter is adorable, just like her nonna!
They're gorgeous. And it's absolutely beautiful.
Grandmotherly love is precious - and grandma food is the most delicious thing in the world. If I had the choice between some fancy Three-Michelin-Star 9 course dinner and something a loving grandma whipped up for me - grandma wins. Hands down.
Either you guys are some of the best comedians in the world or the Italians or a happy a lot of people!
I so love this channel! I had some sad news this morning about the untimely passing of a dear friend and thought "Pasta Grannies will do the trick!" and these two lovely women did! Caterina so reminds me of my beloved Grandmother who always took the time to include her grand and great-grand children in the art of making her favorite dishes we still talk about and are passing on to her great-great grandchildren. The only challenge we had - that I'm sure many of us still have - was getting an actual recipe with measurements as, like Caterina and Lucia, she was an eyeball/feel/smell cook and when asked she'd say "you'll know when it's enough" and roll her eyes...
Melvis, I'm most sorry to hear about the death a loved one, but glad Pasta Grannies was able to inspire some happy memories. best wishes, Vicky
Ohhh sooooo endearing. These two lovely and beautiful ladies and that little pretty bambina. Their art of cooking is amazing. Love all the grannies in the videos. Remind me of my own😊
Randy Sabbagh, just trial and error in the beginning, but you will eventually perfect it. I’m Italian and although I make most of these dishes, I still enjoy watching these lovely and wise women!
I grew up in an Italian-American family so I grew up eating Italian food and thought I knew everything about Italian home cooking. So far after binge-watching this channel it turns out there was something that seems to have gotten lost over the Atlantic that kinda blew my mind a little. Nutmeg! My grandmothers learned to make their sauce from their mothers and so on and neither of them used nutmeg...Nor does anyone else in my family. I had no idea but you can bet that the next time I made a red sauce I'm adding nutmeg to see what I've been missing.
Hi Angela, not everyone puts nutmeg in their red sauce 😊 Let us know what you think. best wishes, Vicky
One of the best video series ever. Great job!
Thank you Kyle! 😊🌺 best wishes, Vicky
One of my favourite regions of Italy for tomatoes, wine and cuisine. Thank you for posting.
Both are just adorable and what a work out making this pasty is. Amazing woman/Grannies. Love it.
I'm glad you liked the video! best wishes, Vicky
When people tell you spaghetti and meatballs is an Italian-American invention, show them this. Different shaped pasta but pretty much identical. Grazie mille.
Huh look up spaghetti a la chittera con palottine(MEATBALLS). The only difference is that the meatballs are smaller in italy. Heck even ITALLISH a youtuber from ROME admitted his nonna fed him spaghetti with meatball(spaghetti con polpottine a la sugo). It is usually the northern italians who said no such things exist.
Tich Tran Exactly. Italian food is so different across the regions that people from one region may never have heard of something. And all people think that their life experiences are the same for everyone. Human nature.
yes because 1) they never tried it 2) in italian we say it's : cucina di nicchia
:) so it's not mainstream
@@tichtran664 Italians are fussy about pasta types and shapes. Eg, they object to spaghetti with a ragu alla bolognese because it's supposed to go with an egg tagliatelle. Spaghetti alla chitarra is also an egg pasta. And small meatballs simply work better with pasta of any kind.
I’m going to Italy with my daughter next month,I can’t wait to eat real Italian pasta! Love the grannies!
So, how it was?
This is no another level of wholesome! Thank you for this lovely channel!
Looks so good. And how cute to see her grandchild making pasta with her Pasta grannie. Thank you for another great video Vicky
That cheese is sublime...I could watch for hours. Wish she was my grandmother!!
Caterina and Lucia remind me so much of my Nonna who was born in Puglia in 1910. She emigrated to the US from Gioia del Colle as a very young girl yet managed to maintain the culinary traditions she was raised with. Grandma Rose always had a large garden of tomato plants and herbs. As a boy I would help her make passata over a wood fire. She would make large Sunday meals for her children and grandchildren consisting of her handmade orecchiette covered in red sauce made from her passata, and her meatballs like the ones in this video. My grandfather smoked his cigarette European-style under a grape trellis while my uncles accompanied my mother singing Italian songs on their accordions.
Pasta grannies is more than a cooking channel to those of us who were blessed to have our very own pasta grannies, if only now in our memories. - thank you Vicki
It’s sad to think that once this generation is gone, those dishes will disappear too. Keep on discovering those Grannies!!! We need to have them immortalised for eternity!!! ❤❤
Thank you very much Vicky for a wonderfully informative channel on TH-cam. It's a terrific platform for these marvellous grannies to share their expertise with the world. I have been a subscriber going on a year now, and each video I watch is better than the last. God bless you!
That's great to hear - thank you for being a fan! best wishes, Vicky
Oh, those dear, beautiful and strong Granny Hands.
Love it!! Even granddaughter can cook! More food from Apulia please. 😊 🇮🇹
Yes, we filmed 8 dishes 😀 best wishes, Vicky
Puglia*
Qué Hermoso gracias !!....ver a las abuelas Italianas....
Questa pagina mi dà tanta gioia (This page brings me so much joy and it makes miss Italy more.) Grazie mille bellissime.
Oooooh, that looks so ultra delicious. And the grandmas are gorgeous again. So nice and happy. :-)
Thank you so much for the recipe! I'll absolutely try this.
Such food, such love; thank you ladies!
What a fantastic dish. I am ever so grateful for this channel. Love it and the lovely Italian grannies
Outstanding meal ladies, and that is the size i prefer my meatballs,have a great day
So glad to have found this channel!!! I'm inspired to finally use my little pasta roller, and the OO flour in my freezer!!! Maybe even dream about moving to Italy, and re-establish my Orsini heritage roots!!!
Complimenti, che meraviglia di piatto! ❤️
so utterly brilliant - two amazing women
Wouldn't I love to take cooking lessons from these two masters!!
John Amidon ....... Yes John you and me both!
I love this video and love the nonne they are so cute ❤❤i want to give them a big hug i was In italy and i really like italians
That olive oil was so green ... Beautiful
yes Caterina and Lucia!!
I have no grandma's to cook for me and I love pasta... this channel is such a tease
I get joy from watching this channel
0:13 Those nonna faces tho! I just want to hug them!
This was heartwarming!
I would pay a lot for pasta like this!!! Looks really good!
I can confirm it was really good - even as a late breakfast! best wishes, Vicky
Very typical Italian old cook ....... I’m Italian! 👍😍
So pleased you approve 😊🌺 best wishes, Vicky
These videos are always soo well done!!! Amazing Work!!
I am delighted you like them, Ezra! best wishes, Vicky
Making such amazing meals will keep you young!
Miriam is sooooo adoreable!!!!
Fantastic. Thank you for your very precious work, Vicky!!!
“Come play with, Danny” luvin the ladies!!
The knowledge and skill of these beautiful women is a joy to see
What an adorable family so cute 🥰🥰❤️❤️
This channel as inspired to learn how to make these, I love this channel and I just barely found it.
Thank you for this brilliant channel! Yours is the only channel on TH-cam I’m not allowed to watch without my wife!
Klaus
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5:13 - TWO MOST PRECIOUS SMILES 💖❤️😍
This looks sooooooo delicious
I bet you ladies are real fun! I wish I was there to eat your excellent cooking! Thanks for sharing your knowledge with us! Have a Happy New Year!
hi Russell, all our interviewees are fun and my job is a joy 😀. Happy New Year to you too. best wishes, Vicky
You ladies are adorable!! Just found your site and will be watching for more! 👍
THIS LOOKS VERY YUMMY!!!! LOVE TO MAKE SOME!!!
Well done. Yumm. Never put nutmeg in my sauce, but will need to try it.
Teamwork. Brilliant!
What better thing to do with a friend than to make pasta with meatballs?
Yum.
I love your videos Vicky.
Keep them coming.
JK
Thank you JK, and I agree - rather than have friends over for supper, invite them to help make supper 😀 best wishes, Vicky
she is so sweet!!!!
Wonderful!
This recipe looks sooo good. And the pasta looks yummy and not too hard to make. I'm going to try making this one. Thank you for sharing!! 😊👍
To me they represent eternal friendship ❤️
Add the pork is the best!!! Looks great 👍😋
they're so cute!!
Just making the meat balls now. Couldn't find the floor so just got ready made durum wheat fresh pasta. Can't wait
Oh I am going to try wine in my meatballs... the cute little girl looks like my cousin Layla❤
I must try wine in my meatballs too - they were very good. And Miriam is a sweetie as I'm sure your cousin is too! best wishes, Vicky
Omg they are so cute❤️❤️❤️
Still love this video!
That looks so good!!
I am so glad I have an Italian wife
I can't help but imagine the stories these ladies could tell...
Brava!!
This is amazing!
I love this.
Love the aprons.
They're so cuteeee
Alla Puglia! 😁
Magnifique
Bravissima ottima ricetta dammi qualche consiglio di ingredienti vorrei Inparare da vuoi grazie mille cuore
hermosas !!!
YUMMMMM!
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Lucky we can never stop learning new things so I am enjoying your Videos now as My Son showed me this channel as one of his favorites as he loves to cook International cuisine I love to cook and preserve all from scratch, having learned hands on tough,(not relaxing video lessons) & lessons from friends, acquaintances and their family members, rare, like this in this video, from elders ,all my life, various parts of world, and cultures, My sadness is modern people whom I could make this , or many fine dishes from many cultures, for their dining, homemade artisan wine, with divine sheep or goats milk cheese, perfect noodles with heritage grains flour not gmo and magnificent crafted cheese, grass pastured beef and pork, would not appreciate the value, the quality, and uneducated, used to mass commercialism grocery store & chain restaurant food are often the rude or at least not recognising God Level Authenticity and Quality artisan cooking,modern dining guests that say "this cheese tastes funny," & " these noodles are weird", is homemade art wine safe, I'm not going to get sick are I? for example, ,,, UNLESS, they were served it in a very expensive Crystal plate months advanced reservations or VIP list restaurant. They would not even recognize the quality as being such a rare treat and almost lost art with the Box pasta, frozen mass produced food culture we live in.I wish I had friends ,neighbors and acquaintances to cook for who would appreciate. It has become such a rare occasion to even share something with someone who recognizes and says wow! This tastes JUST like How they make it when I traveled-- I.E. Italy, Turkey, Greece, Middle East, Philippines, Thailand, South pacific Islands etc..,
To me when someone can place and recognize a authentic dish and flavor as local and name region or country, is a prize to me, not for my ego, but a win, just to have shared an art of cuisine craft with other who recognizes and appreciates ! Love the Video documentaries!
It's true - people's aversion to strong flavours comes from eating industrially produced food. We live in a time of food abundance which ironically means we are loosing the skills and the tastebuds needed for cooking from scratch. best wishes, Vicky
So inspirational! I have just one question - how long does it take to cook the pasta?
About 5 minutes. The best way to judge is not time, but tasting them 😀 best wishes, Vicky
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Any chance someone has a link to their aprons?
Yummmmmmmm
These videos are priceless and precious, thank you so much for filming and posting these!!
One constructive comment though, the music is annoying and trivializes the videos (makes it sound like a kid's video game) - I would suggest removing the music or replacing with something more tasteful for future videos! Thank you for considering, it just negatively impacts the experience of watching these precious films.
hi Sara, thanks for your feedback. I commissioned the music for a couple of reasons: first TH-cam is rightly very strict about copyright infringement (ie using others tunes without paying for it). Secondly we don't always film in the sequence the video appears and there is quite a lot of conversation happening (it's not like 'proper' film where everyone has to be absolutely silent - we want our ladies to be comfortable) - it's hugely distracting to have random and disjointed noise and conversation in the background. The music gives continuity. Fortunately (from my perspective) the majority of folk actively like or don't notice the music. I don't think it would be possible to please everyone and I'm sorry you find it so annoying! best wishes, Vicky
So, if I have it correct - there are 2 types of past dough - one made with water and one with eggs. Why? Is it regional or are the pastas different for another reason?
Durum wheat "semola rimacinata" (double mill flour) with water (at most 1 egg for a kilo): it is high gluten flour.
Common wheat (type 00 for pastry making, or types, 0, 1, 2; I use type 1 that's more raw) with eggs: it is a low gluten flour, the eggs substitute the gluten.
Tre onde without eggs is semola rimacinata And the opposite it’s normal plane flour 00
Hallo die Videos sind super und die Idee ist genial, aber es müsste halt auch Videos in Deutsch geben, ich komme gar nicht hinter her mit übersetzen
How long do you cook the tomato sauce for?
About 30 minutes. best wishes Vicky
outstanding, beautiful and a awesome channel... Gordan Ramsays must watch...
Who on earth gives dislikes to grannies? Rude.
Those northern Italian who said spaghetti with meatballs don't exist.
I will make the same pasta... with my Kitchenaid. I have not the patience and strength of those lovelies ladies
Time to start with a noodle-making workout :D
You sure that’s olive oil? We don’t usually fry with olive oil in Italy, we use palm oil for frying...
I imagine the popularity of cooking with palm oil is a relatively recent phenomenon, considering it is not a domestic product. These women are nearly 100 years old, so they probably spent the majority of their lives with access only to more traditional cooking oils.
Palm oil? We use sunflower or olive OIL ! I live in Italy since birth 😉
You are a troll
Note that she used a spoon to turn the meatballs, not a fork, which would break them.
quisiera que fuera en español. Gracias
I would be a fat ass if I had any of these ladies as a granny.
This video absolutely destroys that purist notion that says that spaghetti with meatballs is an American invention.
Tomorrow I'm posted an episode from Abruzzo - spaghetti alla chitarra with tiny meatballs called pallotine. It's great! best wishes, Vicky
MonsieurMosca I see you can’t grasp the difference, but yes, spaghetti and meatballs as in the american way doesn’t exist in Italy. This dish is a traditional hand made dish and definitely there are no spaghetti. Also Abruzzese spaghetti alla chitarra are not the common spaghetti, the way they are made is different. Also, the meatballs are tiny compared to the American ones. I believe the american spaghetti and meatball is just a reminiscence of these dishes realised by people who lost the ability to make them according to the original recipes. So they ended up using normal spaghetti as the closer thing to the original. Polpette became bigger as everything in the US is, and looked like they became the main dish with the pasta taking the place of side dish, while in Italy the dish in the video including the polpette is considered a first course.
MMMMmmmmmmmmm Place an extra chair at the table for me please. I will bring the wine.
Wonderful!