Today is the date of the World Pasta Day, a special day for all the Made in Italy food lovers, but above all for our Italian pasta suppliers as Pastificio dei Campi, Pastificio Caponi, Pasta Bossolasco, Pasta Mancini, Pasta Benedetto Cavalieri, La Campofilone, Adamo Bio, Azienda Agricola la Fastuchera and many others. What groups in with these pasta producers are the selection of high quality raw materials, the maintenance of craft processes and the care for the details. These can be less profitable choices, that implies extra work, but they’re what let us taste such high level products. In this day our wishes and congratulations go out to these pasta makers, true ambassador of Italian taste and culture.

Pasta Mancini is prepared with raw materials, care and time of the best home made dough. Pastificio Agricolo Mancini indeed selects, cultivates and transforms the fittest varieties of wheat for a good and healthy 100% Italian pasta. Guaranteeing the total sincerity and transparency of the company there is the Good Agriculture Practices (GAP) certification, a disciplinary for an eco-compatible of the agricultural activities defined by the Ministry decree of April 19th 1999 as the “Enseble of the cultural methods that a diligent farmer would employ in the interested region”. In addition to traditional formats as spaghetti Mancini, bucatini Mancini, penne Mancini and many others, Mancini proposes more personal ones too as the Tuffoli Mancini, a typical Marche pasta (as the company location itself), mid dimensioned, versatile and perfect for the absorbent of the seasoning.

Today here’s a simple and tasty first course with Ligurian influences, from the moment that a short pasta fits better to this recipe we have chosen the maccheroni Mancini. For a creamy and velvety pesto based sauce only three ingredients are needed: Pesto alla genovese - Pexto, a soft paste fresh cheese (caprino, ricotta# or maybe philadelphia) and last the binding key, that is to say the pasta cooking water. Add it gradually to the pesto alls genovese and fresh cheese mixture, mixing until obtaining an homogeneous mixture endowed with the right consistency. For an original Liguria taste touch add the taggiasche olives, finally amalgamate the pasta in the sauce.

The rediscovery of the ancient wheats has involved Pasta Mancini too, which produces and transforms wheat all of itself and therefore endowed with a structure which is suitable with this kind of evolution. Pasta Mancini has started this road with the Turanico wheat coming from the BIO organic certified agriculture, a specie is hailing from the Khorasan region ( North East Iran) and present in Italy too, but in the last years it was abandoned by the most. Since 2013 Pastificio Mancini, has started to develop pasta making instruments to interpret the richness of these wheats at their best, which have been re-discovered and cultivated. Circular bronze wire drawings, low temperatures drying , lower than 44 degrees 20 hours for the short formats of pasta and 40 hours for the long ones. The result obtained is a lightly dark pasta, with a colour that reminds of ground, endowed with a pronounced wheat aroma. Available in the formats SPAGHETTI DI GRANI TURANICI BIO - Pasta Mancini, PENNE LISCE DI GRANI TURANICI BIO - Pasta Mancini, SEDANI 20 RIGHE DI GRANI TURANICI BIO - Pasta Mancini.

When you're walking along the streets or in a park at the end of October you will find yourself immersed in a yellow, orange and brownish landscape due to the fallen leaves. These colors reminds us that Autumn is the best season for the Mantua Pumpkin (Zucca Mantovana), which is unquestionably the Italian best one. Its origins in Italy dates back to many centuries ago, when it was imported from Asia and the New World. Usually pumpkin is well known for the outstanding tortelli stuffing, but today we're giving you a different recipe: Mezze maniche cacio e pepe with pumpkin cream and crispy ossocollo. Ingredienti: Mezze maniche Mancini, Mantua Pumpkin (Zucca Mantovana), Ossocollo ( Capocollo ) - Salumificio Lovison, Aloise - Extra Virgin Olive Oil from Apulia Agriè, Pecorino Sardo con caglio vegetale - Dolce di cardo stagionato 6 mesi - Azienda Agricola Mureddu Aru, Coarse sea salt of Trapani, black pepper. First cut the pumpkin into pieces and put it into the oven for 20 minutes. When its pulp will be soft remove it from the skin and put it into a mixer adjusting with salt and evo oil. Put the mezze maniche into salted boiling water for half the time it is written on the box. Meanwhile cut the ossocollo into small pieces and cook until crispy in a frying pan with a little evo oil. When the pasta will be a half of its cooking time drain it preserving the pasta water, so finish the cooking in a pan where before it was toasted some black pepper adding gradually the pasta water. When it will be ready turn the fire off and mantecate with the grated pecorino and some black pepper. Take a soup plate, put the pumpkin cream at the bottom, so the pasta and finally the crispy ossocollo with a last dust of black pepper.