My Wife & Italian Cuisine.

I'm blessed.

My father-in-law is Italian and my wife learned her cooking skills - the Italian ones - from his mum. Now, they rarely got on...but they did bond over cooking.

He's pretty handy too.

So, from pizza, to salads, to pasta and the various sauces - all made as a vegetarian option - are pretty dam authentic. She makes the pasta herself and, as people may or may not know, it just tastes so much better than shop bought.

I'd say that's her speciality.

Shew just has a way..

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dancingtongue · 80-89, M

My late wife was Sicilian and at the time we married, was running the family restaurant/catering service where she was primary cook. They also made their own pasta, including a sideline of frozen ravioli that they sold over-the-counter.

While her Sicilian cooking was extremely good, she always felt it was like work having cooked the family meals from age 7 and then be principal cook at the restaurant. She much preferred to explore cooking genuine Latin and Asian cuisines. And if her father was visiting, we always had to have rice instead of pasta. It was a running joke between them because growing up in northern Sicily where wheat was grown for the Peninsula market going back to Roman times, rice was the staple and pasta a treat.