The visual impression is enough to understand the high quality of the PASTRY SHEETS / LASAGNE - PASTIFICIO CAPONI. The craft pasta processing at environmental temperature helps to preserve the best properties and aromas of durum wheat and eggs, 26 yolks per kg of flour, both exclusively from Italy. Moreover the hand working, differently from the industrial one, increases the absorbing power of the other ingredients and the consistency during the biting is better too. The final result is an exceptional product, as it is the implicit pasta Caponi message, showing us how personal knowledges and manual skills are, in some processes, still an irreplaceable added value in the food field.

The particular geological composition is what defines the uniqueness of the Liguria territory. The marked contest between coast and mountains not only creates suggestive landscapes but unrepeatable opportunities concerning the wine and food production. Pasta Liguria benefits exactly from these natural characteristics to propose high quality products endowed with a strong territory connotation. Starting from water, whose importance is often underrated in pasta production but is actually fundamental, which comes from the spring of the Natural Park of Antola, with a protected area of more than 4000 hectares and so able to offer pure and uncontaminated spring water. Only Italian durum wheat, slow drying, bronze wire drawing (that is to say the key elements of a craft pasta), together with skills and territory knowledge give as a result typical high quality regional pasta (as the Trenette pasta di grano duro da agricoltura biologica - Pasta di Liguria), with which you can exalt at their best Ligurian recipes and many others!

Homemade bread is something that, as other forms of art, is a channel for creativity, expressivity and enriches the knowledges. Moreover it gives us the certainty of eating an healthy product, which is fundamental thing when we talk about everyday food, differently from what normally happens in the most part of the bread, where the amount of yeast is too high, the flour used is too refined and sometimes chemical additives are present too. The first step for an high quality bread is the selection of the raw materials, flour first privileging the raw ones. We’ve invested our time and resources in the promotion of the ancient wheats, endowed with unique organoleptic and taste properties, as we’ve observed after many years of experiments with home made pizza and bread, and the result have been incredibly good. Using Tumminia, Russulidda Durum Wheat Semolina Sicilian biologic stone ground - Fastuchera Farm or Minorca ( Sicilian ancient durum wheat varieties), not only earning in aromatic richness and taste, but our body too will thank us, from the moment that lab analysis have revealed that flours like these bring many different benefits that go from the cardiovascular system ( thanks to lignin) to the ease to digest, moreover discouraging the rise of alimentary intolerances.

Azienda Agricola Biologica Adamo is a company that, due to the magnificent productivity of the land where it is placed, commits to a well rounded production with a fil rouge: the authentic genuineness and naturalness of the products. At the beginning extra virgin olive oil and wine were the specialization fields, but the call and the vocation of the grounds towards other alimentary kind were too inviting to resist them. So Vincenzo and his family decided to approach first the wheat sector, developing the Sicilian ancient durum wheats in particular, and then the preserves, all organic certified. The last ones are the most recent arrivals, Sicilian specialties with centuries of traditions, passed on trough the generations as the Sicilian Caponata - Azienda Agricola Biologica Adamo, the red onion jam, pistachios pesto, trapanese pesto with tuna and many others.

The ancient durum wheat varieties have recently been doing a comeback, once they were abandoned for their poor yield, nowadays they’ve been reconsidered for their extraordinary organoleptic properties and the characteristic aromas that distinguish themselves from the most common ones. The Russulidda is part of this category, a Sicilian ancient durum wheat which is a truly unique variety as benefits on health (low gluten content, facilitation of digestion, high lignin content that favours the circulatory system) and the aromatic typicalness. Fastuchera Azienda Agricola is a small Sicilian reality, starting from the ancient wheats cultivation to the transformation in hand made pasta, obtaining a Sicilian ancient wheat pasta from organic agriculture. Yesterday some new products have been presented, among which the Paccheri di Russulidda - Fastuchera Azienda Agricola, a typical format of the southern Italy gastronomic tradition which finds in this variety an original aromatic mark and inviting toasted perfumes.

The Cavalieri family has been committing in the durum wheat cultivation field since 1800, an experience that in 1918 turned into a pasta production activity. The personal knowledge led the Pastificio Benedetto Cavalieri to select only Apulian and Basilicata durum wheats, cultivated excluding the massive use of herbicides going to the detriment of quantity but improving the quality. After becoming a renowned excellence in the homemade pasta production, the last challenge for Benedetto Cavalieri has been the whole wheat pasta. A product that is often seen ad healthy but damaging the taste, so the mission of the company has been making Benedetto Cavalieri whole wheat pasta healthy and tasty at the same time. After many researches and tests the results is an organic pasta not only endowed with great organoleptic properties, but also with an enveloping and rustic taste, as in the case of the Mezzi rigatoni of Organic Durum Wheat Semola Whole Wheat- Pasta Benedetto Cavalieri, a truly interesting and versatile format for your recipes.

Molino e Pastificio A. Amadio is a recently born line designed and produced by the historical Pastificio Gentile. So, it is a Pasta di Gragnano igp produced with a careful selection of 100% Italian durum wheats. As per disciplinary the bronze wire drawing and the low drying are essential processes in order to maintain highest level of quality. When we tried the Bucatini di Gragnano - Molino e Pastificio A. Amadio we were very suprised firstly by Pasta Amadio great cooking resistance, particularly from the moment that this pasta format is usually one of the most difficult to manage from this point of view, secondly by its intense taste and the outstanding porosity that favorites a perfect absorption of the sauce by the bucatini.

Pastificio Caponi was born in 1953, in the province of Pisa, at the beginning oriented towards stuffed fresh pasta production, during the years the dried egg pasta was inserted, in the traditional formats like tagliatelle Caponi, Pappardelle (egg pasta) - Caponi and lasagne Caponi. The raw materials used come from local Tuscan suppliers selected and guaranteed, as the it happens in the case of the eggs (26 egg yolk per kg of flour) whole and opened one at time, while the durum wheat comes from Florence. The pasta is produced using the renewed original machineries of the pasta laboratory, which have the particular peculiarity to leave space for the manual work, still nowadays a big part of the process, without replacing it. As a consequence the result is an artisanal product, traditional and cared in every single detail, also due to the natural temperature drying, a long and expensive process that go to the detriment of quantity but guarantees an incredibili high quality of the final product.

1867, it is the date the attested by a certificate in the chamber of commerce which marks the beginning of the activity as artisanal pasta producers by the Masciarelli family. A company that has been expanding with the passing of time, still maintaining the artisanal character that stood it out at the birth, testified by the irregular shape of Pastificio Masciarelli products. The choice of fine local durum wheats, the use of water coming from the near Majella Natural Park, the bronze drawing and the slow drying at 40 degrees are at the base of the excellence of this product. These are processes and attentions which are fundamental to maintain the taste, the consistency and the organoleptic qualities intact. The goodness of the product has been rewarded in 2013 by Gambero Rosso, with the award as pasta with the best quality/price ratio. In the picture Fusilli Masciarelli with Ricotta di Bufala (Buffalo Ricotta) - Caseificio Artigianale Esposito, Pachino Cherry Tomatoes and Pistacchi di Sicilia crudi e sgusciati - Azienda Agricola Fastuchera.

Pasta Bossolasco project is born from an agricultural company, when the fourth generation decided to integrate the raw materials transformation, that is to say Italian durum wheat, with the production of the same. It is the second company case in Italy of Italian pasta production with a 100% internal supply chain, so from the wheat cultivation, to the milling in order to obtain the flour, than the processing and finally the packaging. The agricultural origin of the company has the advantage of having knowledges inherent to the activity, which have allowed to obtain high quality Italian products, with the right bland of durum wheat varieties for make a flavorful artisanal pasta, endowed with great cooking resistance and not least a positive impact on health due to its great organoleptic properties. It's available in the formats Fusilli - Pasta Bossolasco, Paccheri - Pasta Bossolasco, Spaghetti - Pasta Bossolasco, Penne - Pasta Bossolasco e Trenette - Pasta Bossolasco.

The experts of the subject state that what truly certifies the quality of an Italian pasta is how it stay firm or not after cooking, that is to say that pasta , after boiling, has to maintain its original shape without laying down and at the same time being properly cooked. When we tried Calamarata di Gragnano - Molino e Pastificio A. Amadio it was immediately clear that this parameter was 100% respected, finding a great and enveloping taste too. It is a certified Pasta di Gragnano IGP, so produced using exclusively Italian durum wheats, bronze drawn and subject to slow drying. These characteristics are necessary to obtain a product which is not only good on the tasting side, but also as it concerns the nutritional values and therefore having a positive impact on body health.

When we're talking about traditional Apulian pasta, Dibenedetto company is a guarantee of quality. The headquarters are set in the famous village of Altamura, in the province of Bari, a locality that is besides the seat of the"Wheat Exchange", a source raw material and knowledges Didenedetto is constantly in touch with in order to offer the best possible product. The pasta is made up of selected local durum wheats, followed by artisanal processings (dough, filling and drying) slow and low aggressive at environment temperatures, in order to preserve the nutritional and taste qualities. Recipe: Orecchiette with turnip tops Ingredients (for 4 people) 2 kg of Cime di Rapa Pugliesi, 400g Orecchiette di Bari Dibenedetto, Pachino Cherry Tomatoes, Extra anchovy fillets in oil Extra virgin olive oil - Mare Puro, salt, extra virgin olive oil, garlic and chili. Preparation Cook the turnips for a few minutes in boiling salted water and add the orecchiette to complete the cooking. In a saute pan with oil, garlic, anchovies, tomatoes and chili. Pour the pasta Dibenedetto with turnips, blow up and serve.

To prepare great Bolognese lasagne the quality of the pastry sheet is essential, indeed often the pasta used in this typical specialty is overshadowed by the rest of the ingredients. A pastry sheet that can make is presence consistent gives an extra step to the recipe in its complex, for this reason the Pastificio Caponi has just begun the production of the lasagna sheets. PASTRY SHEETS / LASAGNE - PASTIFICIO CAPONI are an artisanal product, exactly like the home made pasta prepared by the most skilled Bolognese grandmothers. The formula is the usual: 24 egg yolks coming from selected breedings, Italian durum wheat semolina carefully selected and slow drying of 70-80 hours in order to maintain all the tastes and properties. Thanks to the first choice ingredients, the knowledges and the production skills, pasta Caponi represents an excellence with few rivals in the Italian gastronomic panorama.

For the people who, sometimes, have no time for cooking, the frozen pizza can be a convenient solution. Even if the products that can be found in the supermarkets are often not high quality ones. We've selected for you PIZZA MARGHERITA - M.E.G.I.C. PIZZA. A pizza sealed in modified atmosphere, so not frozen, that preserves, thanks to this method, all the taste and organoleptic properties, as it has been just made without the use of any preservative. The ingredients are high quality ones, from the durum wheat flour 0 type, to the tomato and the fior di latte mozzarella (not always used in the pizzerias yet) 100% Made in Italy. It keeps for 20 days, it is also possible to frozen it in order to make it keep longer. To bring out the flavours and aromas during baking, preheat the oven at 250°C and place the pizza directly on the oven grill. Thereafter bring the oven temperature down to 220°C and let it cook for 6 to 8 minutes depending on whether you prefer a soft or crispier pizza base. As an alternative, you can place it in a pan for 8 to 10 minutes maximum.

More and more people are coming back to dedicate themselves to the home made production of bread, focaccia and pizza. We of OIP want to help you to reach the best possible result, both on the taste and in the genuineness of the final product. The flours that can be find on the supermarket shelves aren’t always good quality raw materials, so they alter the tastes and the organoleptic qualities of bakery products in a negative way. Within our catalogue you will be able to find different kind of flours, from the most common varieties to the ones derived from ancient wheats. All of them rigorously Made in Italy all over the production processes: from the wheat cultivation without dangerous chemical fertilizers, to the stone milling. Why using Italian flour? The flour leader countries producers (Canada, Rumania), due to the lack of sun and warm needed for the most part of the year, are obliged to dry the wheat using the glyphosate, an herbicide that avoid the wheat to go bad within few days, but it surely hasn’t a good effect on health, so that it is under observation as a possible cancerous substance. In Italy, on the contrary, particularly in the Southern regions, is endowed with a warmer and sunny weather, so the producers are able to dry wheat naturally under the sunbeams. To give your dough an unique aroma try the flours by Fastuchera Agricultural Company, a small company that invest in the production of flours deriving from Sicilian ancient wheats, towards a eco sustainable agriculture protecting the biodiversity and the genuineness of the final product. Maiorca Flour Soft wheat Bio Molita in Pietra - Fastuchera Farm, Russulidda Durum Wheat Semolina Sicilian biologic stone ground - Fastuchera Farm, Tumminia Biologic Semiwhole Flour Stone Milled - Az. Agricola Fastuchera.

Did you know that the tumminia wheat is a variety which have been already cultivated by the Ancient Greek in the Sicilian colonies of the Magna Grecia? After a long period of neglect due to the low productiveness, this ancient durum wheat has been re-discovered by some small local producers as it is endowed with incredible organoleptic properties. Indeed it has an high protein value, a low gluten index and contains an high percentage of lignin, a substance that help the heart to keep healthy reinforcing the immune defenses too. Anyway it not only have great nutritional properties, but also an unique natural aroma, giving the derived products as tumminia pasta or tumminia bread an outstanding pleasant taste which mirrors its ancient and deep historical heritage.

It could seem obvious, but a real good quality and naturally genuine bread makes the difference in your both in taste and in the health of your diet, as it is a product which is a constant part of the everyday meals of most of people. So we've searched and selected for you an high quality, organic certified, stone baked bread and we are convinced Forno Astori represents a real excellence in this field. The bakery directly selects from the mills only Italian and organic flour, making the bread using natural starter still making all processes by hand. The result is a fragrant and rustic bread, which will last not only for a day but will keep for many days due to the 100% natural ingredients. Forno Astori has a wide offer of breads: Stonebaked organic Pugliese type bread - Forno Astori, Stonebaked organic bread with spelled flour - Forno Astori, Stonebaked organic whole meal bread - Forno Astori, Stonebaked organic bread with rye flour - Forno Astori, Stonebaked organic durum wheat bread - Forno Astori, Stonebaked organic bread with 4 cereals - Forno Astori. Not only bread, this bakery indeed produces all kind of products deriving from flour and baked in a stone bake like grissini, biscuits, rusks, taralli and so on.

Pasta Bossolasco distinguishes itself from the other artisanal pasta thanks to the annulment of the production chain, in which now has the farmer become the pasta maker too, in a process similar to the wine making one where the vineyard product is then transformed in an excellent wine by the producer itself. The pasta produced is the result of a careful selection of the best durum wheat, bronze wire drawing and drying at low temperare and so slower but more natural too ( this leads, differently from the industrial pasta, to a less bright yellow color) also going to the detriment of the quantity yield. The final product is a 100% Italian origin, certified and naturale artisanal pasta, an important element as it concerns an absolute protagonist of a lot of every day recipes and diets.

Pasta alla norma is one of the most ancient Italian pasta recipes whose name was given in honor to a Catania (a city of Sicily )the famous comedy writer Vincenzo Bellini during the first play of his famous theatrical play "La Norma". Today we want to write you a recipe of a 100% Sicilian pasta alla norma, using a pasta made of an ancient Sicilian durum wheat variety called Tumminia cultivated and processed in Alcamo (a village on the western side of Sicily). the result is a semi-whole pasta endowed with an unique aroma and a lot of beneficial organoleptic properties. Ingredients: 400g of Timilia Biological Penne Rigate - Az. Agricola Biologica Adamo; 500g tomato sauce ( you can add cherry tomatoes if you want some extra freshness), mature slated sheep's ricotta, 2 aubergines, 2 cloves of red garlic from Nubia and basil, Sicilian extra virgin olive oil, salt and pepper. First of all you have to wash aubergines and cut them into slices, cover them with cooking salt, put on them a weight an make them dry for one hour at least, with this process they will loose all the water in excess and they won't absorb too much oil. Then wash them from the salt, cut them into cubes and you can decide whether to deep fry them (original recipe) or put them in a pan with some oil (lighter). When aubergines will be cooked ad the sauce to them putting on this sauce the entire garlic clove (that you will take out after the sauce will have acquired its flavour) and make it cook until it has reached the right consistency. During the sauce cooking boil the pasta until its is "al dente" (control the minutes of cooking on the package), dry it and make it cook with the sauce to amalgamate it. At the end add some mature salted sheep' ricotta (be generous) and the remaining leaves of fresh basil.

As in the last post we wrote about Pesto alla Trapanese now we would guilty if we didn't suggest you the right kind of Italian pasta to pair it with: the Busiate Trapanesi. This marriage is that perfect thanks to the same environmental and climatic conditions but also thanks to the passion and know-how of the producers are fundamental. The Busiate Trapanesi - Pastificio Campo in fact are still made following the local traditional method, using only Sicilian durum wheat Semolina which has an high protein content and remains al dente even after a long time of cooking.

As in the last post we wrote about Pesto alla Trapanese now we would guilty if we didn't suggest you the right kind of Italian pasta to pair it with: the Busiate Trapanesi. This marriage is that perfect thanks to the same environmental and climatic conditions but also thanks to the passion and know-how of the producers are fundamental. The Busiate Trapanesi - Pastificio Campo in fact are still made following the local traditional method, using only Sicilian durum wheat Semolina which has an high protein content and remains al dente even after a long time of cooking.