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olive

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Nov 10, 2005
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I'll be there next trip in October, ideally with other SoWallers!

By the way, Olive, we had a fantastic type of thin crust pizza in Italy that seems to be quite the trend there now, at least where we visited in Tuscany -- pizza with a light red sauce covered with little scoops of mascapone cheese with a thin layer of prosciutto over the cheese. It was so good that I sobbed silently as I ate it, overcome with food emotions. I even took a photo of it. If this photo below doesn't come out well, email me and I'll send the photo to you privately.

Sounds fabulous, Paula!

I'll pass it along to Amory.

Everybody have a good weekend!!
 

steele mama

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Mar 14, 2005
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Sounds fabulous, Paula!
I'll pass it along to Amory.

Everybody have a good weekend!!

Hey Ol,
We got to see Amory last night. Jen, Janc, Lynn and Rowie P and I had the most fabulous original salad with golden beets and asparagus. AND the bruchetta sp?????? AND TWO pizzas to die for AND beer. The weather was perfect on the deck and our waitress babysat for us. Isn't that great! By the way we are meeting there at 11:30 today for Em's b-day. Can you come?
 

olive

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Nov 10, 2005
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Hi Steele Mama!!!!

Wish I could but have to work.

Have funn!!!!
 

Paula

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Jan 25, 2005
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Sounds fabulous, Paula!

I'll pass it along to Amory.

Everybody have a good weekend!!

I usually find one or two foods when I go to Italy that make it to the U.S. about 5 years later. Since I couldn't find the recipe or any mention of the mascapone/prosciutto pizza on Google, then this may be one of those times. I believe they put the mascapone and prosciutto on at the last minute (maybe even when it comes out of the oven) otherwise the cheese will melt and the prosciutto will cook. Problem is that in the US, mascapone and prosciutto are expensive, whereas they are quite reasonable in Italy. Oh well...
 

Mermaid

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Aug 11, 2005
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I usually find one or two foods when I go to Italy that make it to the U.S. about 5 years later. Since I couldn't find the recipe or any mention of the mascapone/prosciutto pizza on Google, then this may be one of those times. I believe they put the mascapone and prosciutto on at the last minute (maybe even when it comes out of the oven) otherwise the cheese will melt and the prosciutto will cook. Problem is that in the US, mascapone and prosciutto are expensive, whereas they are quite reasonable in Italy. Oh well...

Paula, you may not be having much luck finding a recipe on Google because you're spelling the mascarpone the wrong way. Try it again with the "r" and you'll come up with quite a bit. (I really like mascarpone, which is the only reason why I know how to spell it. :roll: )
 

Miss Kitty

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The Spelling She-Devil has hit again! :evil:
 

John R

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Dec 31, 2005
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i had a fantastic lunch yesterday with a sweaterpuppet. the seasonal salad was so great that i went to the kitchen to get more yellow beats, but the last ones had been put on my salad. of course the pizza was perfect. i took a pic, but i can't find my camera. think i might have left it there.

jr
 

Teresa

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Nov 15, 2004
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I usually find one or two foods when I go to Italy that make it to the U.S. about 5 years later. Since I couldn't find the recipe or any mention of the mascapone/prosciutto pizza on Google, then this may be one of those times. I believe they put the mascapone and prosciutto on at the last minute (maybe even when it comes out of the oven) otherwise the cheese will melt and the prosciutto will cook. Problem is that in the US, mascapone and prosciutto are expensive, whereas they are quite reasonable in Italy. Oh well...


Paula, I'll check all my Italian cook books for this pizza (or similar). If you can find a similar recipe, you can just start experimenting and figure it out. The first time I went to Italia, I came back in love with penne with gorganzola sauce. I found recipes and tried quite a few - the simplest is usually the most accurate/authentic. This is still one of my absolute favorite recipes on earth.
 

Teresa

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Nov 15, 2004
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South Walton, FL
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i had a fantastic lunch yesterday with a sweaterpuppet. the seasonal salad was so great that i went to the kitchen to get more yellow beats, but the last ones had been put on my salad. of course the pizza was perfect. i took a pic, but i can't find my camera. think i might have left it there.

jr


need pix!:D
 

Paula

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Jan 25, 2005
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Michigan but someday in SoWal as well
Penne and gorgonzola sauce. I love it, too, Tootsie. It's easy to make. put butter in a pan, melt a chunck of gorgonzola in the same pan with the butter, add to freshly cooked penne or bowties... sigh...:love:

I looked in a few of my cookbooks and couldn't find the pizza recipe. We tried it at home and that's how we learned not to put the mascarpone and prosciutto on until very late in the cooking or right out of the oven. We used a dough from the freezer at the supermarket and that actually tasted very good when rolled thin.
 
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