fusilli with smoked bacon & pesto sauce

Fusilli with Pesto

We do love noodles, especially pasta and I love short pasta: Fusilli & Penne too bits. Yesterday, we cooked Fusilli with pesto sauce. I added smoked bacon/pancetta as I like it more this way.

Cooking pesto sauce is very easy but you can always get a good bottled Pesto Sauce from any high-end deli/supermarket which sells good qaulity products from Italy and its more realistic & practical this way.

Find below my recipe of Fusilli with Pesto sauce with smoked bacon.

For the pesto Sauce
• Handful of Italian Basil
• Handful of Pine nuts (from Waitrose is highly recommended)
• 5-6 Tablespoon of Olive Oil (De Cecca is highly recommended)
• Sea Salt

• Smoked Bacon, 1/2 cup (Pacetta is higly recommended)
• Fusilli, 140 g (De Cecca)
• Pine Nuts & Basil leaves for garnish
• Very good quality of Parmesan Cheese, grated


Preparation

1.Cook the Fusili as instructed on the side of its package (I like it cooked al dente)
2.Drain, remove them into a big bowl keep one side
3.Blend all the pesto ingredients in a food processor.
4.In a saucepan, add smoked bacon, fry for 3-5 mins to your liking or till aromatic
5.Turn off the heat, add the fried smoked bacon into a pasta bowl.
6.Toss the pesto through the pasta.
7.Remove into a serving plate
8.Garnish with fresh Basil leaves & Pine nuts (Optional)
9.Serve with a cup of extra grated Parmesan Cheese

calderazzo

Calderazzo Italian Restaurant

I mean to write about "Calderazzo" a while ago but being the kind of person who trend to buy cookbooks with pictures, I just cant post without pictures. So, I just had to wait for the pictures.

Last week I got a chance to visit the restaurant for lunch, hence Calderazzo's Food pictures. : )

Oh well.. everybody knows that "Calderazzo" is one of the best intalian restaurants in bkk. So, no doubt that this restaurant is well-known and being many people's favourite restaurant. I personally, have many favourite italian restaurants in bkk too... but it seems to me that each of them has thier own best dishes to offer.

Giusto is best at thier appetizers, salads (best caprese in town), red meat dishes & desserts.
Fuzio Cuisine is outstanding in term of light & heathy food.
Delicatezza cooks very good pasta dishes which seem to match thai's taste.

Yes..to me "Calderazzo" cooks the best "pasta" in town!!

The style of Chef Marco's cooking is typically southern Italian, the emphasis on the fresh taste of the products. Almost of his pasta dishes appear, virtually, no cream or butter is used in the sauces which very much matches my taste as I personally dislike creamy food.

My most favourite dish is "Penne with Beef & Broccoli.

If you happen to love Pasta... "Calderazzo" is the answer.

Rate :
***** for the Food
**** for Decoration
***** for Service


Calderazzo
59, 59/6 Soi Langsuan,
Ploenchit Rd., Lumpini,
Patumwan, BKK 10330
T. 02 252 8108-9

fuzio

Fuzio Italian Restaurant in Ekamai

Here comes a stylish Italian Restaurant that I really like!!

The restaurant is well decorated in "casual elegance" and Chef Flavio himself is a health-conscious person who is very much into healthy cuisine.
Looking at his well selected menu, you will find that most of the dishes are meant to be mild and light (banning flour from his sauces). Moreover, the dishes are definitely food for the eyes.

All ingredients are well selected and imported from where produces best products; tuna comes from Japan, blood orange comes form Sicily, red tomatoes come from Naples area as the experienced Chef, once, used to work as a private chef for (a well known) "the queen of mean" who offered no-limited budget for him to fly all over the world to find the best sources of ingredients into her kitchen.



What I love the most in his restaurant is "desserts".
Although, there are not many choices but the "Panna Cotta" and "Tiramisu" are the real winner!!. Chef Flavio has managed to preserve the full flavours of these sweets without loading them up with sugar or rich cream... not too sweet and not too creamy. They are just well-balanced... just how I like my desserts to taste like.

"Fuzio" promises to be one of the best Italian Restaurants in Bangkok.

Rate :
***** for the Food
***** for Decoration
***** for Service


Fuzio
99/99 Sukhumvit 63 (Ekamai)
Mini Building, 6th floor,
Bangkok 10110
T. 02 711 6999

la villa

Mixed Antipasti @ La Villa

One of many good Italian Restaurants in Bangkok, La Villa is definitely worth a try.

I am very fond of their "Antipasti & Charcoal Grilled Lamb Cutlets served with Parmesan Cheese & Rockets"

Find below the address of this restaurant.

La Villa
Address : 131, Soi Sukhumwit 53 , sub Soi 9
Sukhumvit Road, Bangkok 10110
Tel : 02-712-9991
Open : daily for lunch and dinner

rigatoni with fresh pork sausage

Rigatoni with Fresh Pork Sausage

3-4 of pork sausages
2 tablespoons of extra light & mild olive oil
1/4 of cup of red wine
1 of onion, diced
2-3 of tomatoes, diced
2 cloves of garlic ( finely chopped)
1 cup of passata ( or canned tomatoes, chopped)
1 cup of mushroom / or green beans
1 lb of large rigotoni dry pasta
fresh basil
salt
pepper
mixed herbs

praparation

in a pan, heat olive oil
add onion, and garlic
add fresh pork sausages and begin to brown for 2-3 mins
add wine and cook until evaporated
add passata
add diced of tomatoes, mushroom, and green beans and cook for 10-15 mins
meanwhile bring water to boil and cook rigatoni for approx. 10-11 mins
drain and toss into the sauce's pan
add fresh basil leave then serve

dinner @ delicatezza

Dinner @ Delicatezza (again)

i went there last night with a mate.
as usual, i am not disappointed. i really adore thier home-cooking ( a bit hot & spicy) style.

try - mediterranean salad, spaghetti seafood with white wine or red wine.

yummy.

giusto

Dining at Giusto, nothing could go wrong.
One of the Best Italian Restaurants in Bangkok
I love everything they cook for me..

My all time favourite dish should be

- Beef carpaccio with black truffle
- Foie Gras with Resberry Sauce
- Tuna Tartare with Avocado, Caviar
- Panna Cotta with Berries

Rate:
***** for the Food
**** for Decoration
***** for Service

Giusto
16 Sukhumvit 23 (Soi Prasarn mitr)
tel. 662 258-4321
fax 662 258 1159

www.giustobangkok.com

delicatezza

Delicatezza is one of my favourite italian restaurants in bangkok.

Rate :
**** for the Food.
**** for Decoration
**** for Service

Delicatezza
351/3 Sukhumvit 55 (Soi Thonglor)
Tel 662 382 2850
Fax 662 382 2849