Fettuccine alla Carbonara (Recipe from Family Italian)
When I was a child, I dreamt of being adopted by an Italian family. I loved their accents, the way they sounded like they were shouting at everything when in fact they were carrying on a normal conversation, I loved how they always called me Bella and of course, their food.
Fast forward to my first year of high school where I spent the summer travelling around Europe with my family. Italy was my favourite of the ten countries we visited that summer, and this time I had dreams of marrying a vespa driving, cappucino drinking, dark eyed Italian as my ticket to that Italian family.
Through the years, I figured the only way to get my Italian family was to amass an unusually large number of Italian cookbooks. So when I told my husband that I had a copy of John Lanzafame’s Family Italian cookbook to review, he said what any practical husband would say “Don’t you have enough Italian cookbooks already?!”
So here in my hands was an Italian cookbook from that Italian family I never had but always dreamed of having.
So to answer my husband’s question whether I have enough Italian cookbooks? There’s always room for one more, especially when it’s inspired by Mum’s cooking.
Trissalicious 