My Favourite Soup. An all year silverbeet recipe.
Francesca from Almost Italian has shared with us her favourite Hazan recipe in the form of a beautiful white bean and silverbeet soup…. or more romantically named: Zuppa di Bietola e Fagioli Bianchi.
Happy Reading,
Leah
When Leah nominated Marcella Hazan’s The Classic The Classic Italian Cookbook for this month’s Cookbook Guru title, I was in two minds. Don’t get me wrong. I went through a Marcella Hazan stage from the late 80s and I believe she has influenced my cooking profoundly. I was studying Italian at the time and her discussion of things like the importance of ‘soffritto’ and ‘salt’ changed my cooking style. At the time, Marcella became my cooking mentor,- I loved the sound of the Italian titles; the two obsessions in my life, Italian language and cooking, complemented each other so well.
In those days I owned two other cookbooks written by Marcella. They preceded her The Classic Italian Cookbook which I don’t enjoy as much. So I am sure you won’t mind if I share my favourite soup recipe, taken from her earlier work. This recipe is a family favourite:…
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Hi Leah, Can’t even press the ‘like’ button because of the big TYPO in the title. I have fixed it on the original but can you edit it on your reblog? I have a new computer, things are a little different! Thanks francesca xx
whoopsie… I’ll fix it now for you (if I can) xx
Yippee, that’s better. Thanks. F