After Pizza the 2nd most world known word is Pasta. Well we Italians like to eat and talking about food, that’s something very well known and this was the content of our second #TeamItaly virtual meetup: share a dinner by cooking our own pasta.
The meetup has last for over three hours, cooking all together our own dish of pasta and then eat it, after there was time to drink, talk and extra.
My receipt was: Paccheri con baccala, pomodorini, olive neri e capperi.
Ingredients (for 3 people):
250g of Paccheri (special type of pasta from Gragnano)
250g of Pomodorini (Pachino or Datterini)
extra vergine olive oils (by hands)
1 piece of garlic
black olives (as wish)
under salt capers (as wish)
250g of codfish filet (possibly fresh)
parsley (as wish)
half glass of stable white wine
The procedure is as follow:
First of all prepare the codfish by removing his skin and cutting it in small square pieces. Then prepare the capers by washing them from their salt, prepare the tomatoes by washing them and cut them half pieces, finally cut the parsley in very small pieces (coarsely cutting).
Put a pad on the fire with extra vergine olive oil and garlic, let the garlic become golden then put the black olives and codfish already prepared. Give a quick turn on high fire and vanish with white wine before it starts to stick to the pad. Let it cook for 5 minutes then add the capers and tomatoes, cover the pad and let it cook for about 15 minutes at low fire while you turn it each now and then. In the mean time make cooking the pasta (Note: the pasta in the Italian way cooks inside already boiling and salted water for the amount specific for that type of pasta: cook it al dente!). Paccheri cooks for about 15 minutes, so when they are good enough throw them into the pad to finish cooking with the fish. Put the parsley very coarsely cut, give it a last very fast turn cooking for a few minutes while you mix it and the dish is ready.
The dish was so delicious which required a full bottle of Pinot Grigio! Well the bottle was deserved to the beautiful people joining the meetup.
Everybody prepared his own pasta receipt, from spaghetti with aglio & olio by @RogerOhayashi to fusilli with tomato sauce by @Jesi, or mushrooms by @DianaTuaty or ravioli by @Matt95Bassett.
The common thing was to cook some pasta and in the meetup we found out that the most famous type of pasta is fusilli! The most of the attendees were surprisingly cooking fusilli, then on second place spaghetti.
As last time our South American friends shared their lunch with our dinner, so we were bit more excused to consume our bottles of wine. A special mention goes to @nicspelgatti who explained and started to prepare live a delicious home made Limoncello.
We had people joining from several countries also just to share a drink with us due to timeline, like our friends from Sri Lanka and India. Also @Giu_DiB joined us for a nice glass of wine, he must have thought we are a very crazy group of Italian Local Guides ?, and @TorM had few beers with us … he showed us the nice sound of a new bottle of beer just opened, no words ?
The time to have fun is speechless, especially in this special worldwide situation where we cannot meet in person anytime but it looks like we never left each other, just like a very worldwide family: the Local Guides family.
Cheers with the pasta dishes from all around the world!
For the full set of screenshots (the virtual version of selfies!!! ?), and the session recording, you can look at this Google Photo album.
For the attendees: please share a good photo of your dish here in the comment ?.
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All pastas looked so delicious 
I’m waiting for Meloncello MeetUp 
See you next time!