PASTA NIGHT
Pasta Night is an ALL HANDS IN dinner party. Think cooking class meets pop-up restaurant. After a lil’ aperitivo*, I will teach your group the art of making hand-formed, semolina pasta. Afterwards, your group will sit back and enjoy a seasonal, family-style feast, prepared by yours truly.
how does it work?
step 1: guests arrive and settle in with a drink and an assortment of snacks
step 2: everyone gathers around the pasta board and learns how to craft hand-formed pasta
step 3: the group collectively makes the pasta shapes while I put the finishing touches on dinner**
step 4: you and your guests dust the flour from your hands and sit down for seasonal, Italian-inspired feast
** the dinner menu will include our hand-made pasta paired with a seasonal sauce, two contorni (vegetables side dishes), a salad and a small dessert. Pasta Night will lean heavily vegetarian as the goal is to highlight locally grown produce***.
but where?
Pasta Night is currently a traveling circus — just give me a call and we’ll get set up wherever you’d like to host. In person Pasta Nights can be held anywhere in the greater Durham, NC area. I will set up shop in your kitchen for the night, and you’ll have a restaurant experience in the comfort of your own home.
*it’s around 5/6pm in Italy — you’re finishing up with the day — meeting a friend for a drink — you’re hungry, but not starving — enter the aperitivo. A smattering of salty snacks served alongside an aperitif, designed to whet your palette before dinner.
***the majority of the produce used for the meal will be sourced from local farmers (like me)!
