Under the Umbrian Snow

Like Mary, I've started reading Under the Tuscan Sun, which is about an American lady and her husband from San Francisco buying and renovating an ancient house in Cortona, just a few miles north of us.

In the book, their first dinner is "spaghetti with an easy sauce made from diced pancetta, unsmoked bacon, quickly browned, then stirred into cream and chopped wild arugla (called ruchetta locally)...we grate parmigiano on top and eat huge mounds".

It sounded fabulous...fabulous enough to make a trek down the hill to get the ingredients.  Danika came with me.

The ingredients.  We used about 1/3rd of the rucola, half the pancetta, half the pasta..and ALL the cream.

Almost done.  It took 10 minutes total.

The verdict:  FANTASTIC.  The fresh grated parmigiano really makes the dish.  We're really glad we have plenty left to make this again this week.

David