The Sunny Kitchen - An Italian cook in Amsterdam: Good for the karma

Course "Ve04" on Tuesday 13 and 27 September and 11 and 25 October 2106 (every other week)

Lesson 1, "King Tomato": we prepare all sorts of dishes with tomato, the real King of the Italian cuisine. Among others oven-baked aubergines with cheese and tomato, Roman stuffed tomatoes in the oven, herb frittata strips in tomato sauce, fried panzerotti with tomato and mozzarella from Puglia plus a beautiful dessert.

Lesson 2, Beautiful Winter dishes: among which a 4 cheeses terrine with nuts and pears served with home-made nut and figs bread, a creamy mushroom paté, small spinach gnocchi with a creamy sauce, chickpea-vegetables burgers with a spicy home-made salsa, aubergine "schnitzels", a hearty winter salad with lots of green veggies and the "roses cake" from Mantua with sabayon.

Lesson 3, A stroll through the Italian regions: with among other a wonderful focaccia with tomato and olives from Bari (Puglia), Sicilian arancini di riso with sun-dried tomatoes, minestrone alla genovese, spinach gnocchi with a creamy sauce, ricotta fritters from Calabria and salame di cioccolata, a wonderful, chocolaty "salami" made with cocoa, almonds, butter and dates.

Lesson 4, Easy and laborious at the same time: with among others a zucchini spaghetti ("courgetti") with herb pesto, creamy Italian mushroom soup, oven-baked mozzarella "cocottes" with tomato sauce, a rich frittata with spaghetti, little courgette "towers" with a delicate cream made with peas, pizza with pecorino, vegetables and fresh tarragon plus a wonderful tart with lemon custard and limoncello flambéed apples.

All cooking lessons start at 18.30 hrs and end around 22.30 hrs.

The price for this course is € 295,00 including Prosecco, wine, all other drinks and all recipes (excl. VAT for companies). You can also give this combination of 4 lessons as a present: buy a gift voucher for a 4-week course!

Groups: We work in groups with a minimum of 6 and a maximum of 14 participants.

In case you have to miss a lesson it’s possible to send a friend, colleague, family member and so forth in your place. Would you please communicate that to La Cucina del Sole before the lesson starts? Grazie!
Special requirements: are you allergic for certain ingredients? Please tell that to Nicoletta so that she can make sure the menu fits your requirements!

To book a course please send an email clicking on this link.

Lots of people care about the environment and the well-being of animals, and that's great, I'm definitely one of them.
When I was younger I managed to be completely vegetarian for one full year because of my love for all living creatures until one day I noticed that my body craved meat, so I had to start eating it again. I do believe in cravings as a signal of what my body needs so I tend to respect them.
Nowadays I eat smaller quantities of meat, and only of the organic type, so that I can still have the illusion of respecting the animals a little more (and yes, I know it's just an illusion because if I wanted to respect them 100% I would become a vegan...)
So all my admiration goes to vegans: they do something I'm not capable of doing in spite of how much I'd like to from a moral point of view.

RESPECT, dear vegans! I love the fact that you try as hard as you can to avoid anything that has been made with animal-derived products and that you succeed in doing that. Well, you do MOST TIMES.

Why not always? Because if you are wine lovers and buy vegan friendly wines you usually think you're consuming vegan wines while that's not the case.
I'm very sorry for you, my darling vegans, but vegan wine does NOT exist.
Usually wine that has been clarified with substances other than egg white, gelatine and casein (which are all animal originated substances) is labelled as "vegan" but people tend to forget all the little spiders and insects that are crushed together with the grapes when making the wine...
So I'm very sorry to drop the bomb but, as I said, vegan wine is just - lovely - animal-friendly wishful thinking. :)

Dear vegans, don't hate me for telling you this. I very much hope that after reading this post you'll still be drinking wine, otherwise you would also have to stop walking to avoid killing ants and other tiny critters! :)
So raise your glass to the well-being of all living creatures, enjoy a generous swig of wine made with good, vegan fining agents and don't worry too much about its "label"!

Your truth-loving Sommelier,

Nicoletta

P.S. the photo comes from this site

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