#58 Forgotten Italian Classics: Casoncelli alla Bergamasca (Lombardy)
In Bergamo casoncelli aren’t just pasta: they’re a tradition of hands working together. Leftover meat, breadcrumbs and cheese, even a touch of sweetness folded into thin dough and finished with butter, sage and pancetta. When I cooked them I realized how good humble food can be when made with care.
Full recipe, story, and method coming soon on Substack (link in bio).
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In Bergamo we would say "Se iè bú i casonsèi!" Which is Bergamasco (Bergamo's dialect) for "Casoncelli are delicious"
Ciao, mi piacciono molto i tuoi video. Sarebbe bello se potessi farne uno sui testaroli oppure i panigacci, li mangiamo dalle nostre parti e son buoni.. (Non sono cibi complicatii da fare però…(
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“Where Italian food is more than just pizza and conventional pasta”
-Makes a common version of pasta that is still pasta but has a slightly different filling
It’s still a ravioli
Italy claiming pizza when they didn't have tomatoes until the America's were colonized is wild.
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“Its not just pizza and pasta”
*proceeds to make pasta”
Dude…
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Besides risotto is there a single Italian dish that doesn’t have pasta?
This is extremely dangerous: why did you choose Bergamo specifically? The dish is shared between Brescia and Bergamo, two famously rival cities, and while using the Bergamasque recipe is perfectly fine, it's also culturally wrong (and a little offensive) not to mention Brescia and all the variants that there are in the different provinces. They did make it outside of Bergamo, mostly because they generated outside of Bergamo, in an area that has been contended for centuries and that stretches far from its external walls! Cansoncelli (or casonséi as we call them) are actually one of the results of a dance of hate and secret love between two cities and two peoples, their story being much more deep and wide than this!
This said, excellent recipe.
Cibo italiano non convenzionale so io che faccio na ricetta cinese co pomodori, uova e la salsa alle ostriche, ci aggiungo na marea de parmigiano, metto sul riso e godo fortissimo.
Da brava romana so cucinare solo riso e risotti
"It's more than just pizza and pasta"
Makes pasta
I still do not understand why they should be forgotten classics when at home almost everything Sunday are prepared and are the classic food of fairs
Mo, dire che non si sono diffusi fuori Bergamo perchè ci vuole tanto a farli… Essu, non serve inventarsi motivi, basta dire che è tipico di lì e fine
Italy is so cringe, they can litterly be home less and it’s inspiring only cuss its Italy
ti seguo qui e su IG, spero tu faccia qualcosa di Pavese! La cucina tipica qui è davvero scomparsa!
"More than just pizza and CONVENTIONAL pasta" ahahah
he ran out of Italian dishes without pasta
Some nice Costco Italian sausage-a there 😂
Fai anche degli agnolotti
I casonsei, boni!
Penso sia per il periodo piuttosto lungo passato sotto alla serenissima, dove l'uvetta è piuttosto comune in diverse ricette venete, ad ogni modo sono favolosi.
Beautiful
Belissimo
the recipe aside, is your commentary written by an AI? It's as vapid and fakedeep as gpt usually is. If you kept the emdashes in i'd be sure
this is true Italian cuisine. people go crazy about how Italian food has A SINGLE correct way to make dishes, and anything else is forbidden. but no, classic Italian food is about making the best of what you have.
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After cooking all 20 dishes that are not pizza and pasta back to the pasta 😅
I love the goofy accent
-Swedish person with a goofy accent
presse one and demande the mother-ze, presse two and demande the daughter-ze 😌🤌