We dined with Valeria, who served a delicious four-course Italian dinner and wine pairing, featuring family recipes passed down from generation to generation.
Dine with Valeria through EatWith.com:
https://www.eatwith.com/events/48182?date=2024-03-28&seats=2
We’ve eaten in a lot of restaurants in Italy but one of our big questions has always been what do Italians eat when they’re at home I mean after all we Americans go over to Italy and probably every meal we have involves pasta and or pizza um but really is that what
Italians eat um or do they eat something completely different today we’ll take you to the house of a real Italian to Valeria’s home where she will cook Us in it meal in the way that the Italians would have particularly for guests when we got to Florence recently we
Discovered a new type of immersive experience where you can actually go to the home of an Italian and be their guest for dinner and um it’s with a an organization a company called eatwith.com and we will link that below so you can check it out in most cases
You might have a group of people at this dinner six or eight people people or so um and they but they don’t it wouldn’t necessarily be your own group it could be a group of people who have just signed up online uh we were fortunate in
Our experience to have just the two of us there so we asked Valeria if we could speak an Italian because that would give us a way for us to practice our Italian and have a little bit more fun while we were having our dinner but of course
Don’t don’t worry if you don’t speak Italian because the dinners are primarily they’re done in English because it is a mixed group and um that is the language that is sort of common to most people so let’s go and you’ll see the experience that we have ciao for the
Moment we’re having dinner with Valeria and she is with eat with where you can actually go to somebody’s house and they will make you dinner and you can have a real homecooked meal meal with a real Italian so let’s uh let’s see how this goes this is Valeria hi hi okay K Wow okay see Ah Oh um this is a a flan with blue cheese and hazelnuts and some apple cream on top of it wow it sounds wonderful and it it smells really good too dig in and let’s see what you think It’s a great combination of the blue cheese flavor M which you love which I love and a little bit of sweetness from the Apple oh nice and didn’t get any nuts in that bite But the Crunch and the flavor of the nuts go very well with Okayo mix MMO I guess I describe it as sort of like a stew mm with meat and potatoes and carrots but the meat has a unusual flavor that’s really good what’s how do you what spices are in here um I marinated this um beef mhm with um Red
Red Wine mhm and a little bit of um honey honey okay okay um oil mhm and um I don’t know how to say oregano oregano uh-huh and Salvia Salia Sage yes so I I don’t Herbs de okay tell me if you like it it looks very good it smells very good this is
Chocolate FL chocolate FL chocolate flan and it’s soft and warm inside MH very go with a little powdered sugar on top little powdered sugar done very delicately very delicately very elegantly M eleg Valeria we just got home from our dinner with Val um that was an excellent dinner she’s a
Great cook um highly recommend her um we’re going to put a link to her below so if you come to Florence and you want to have a homecooked meal you can call her up and she will cook for you she’s very nice and a spectacular cook uh with
Very simple things but she does a wonderful job with them and it’s certainly a great way to get a real feel for a real Italian and the kinds of things that uh they eat and she answered a lot of good questions for us and we learned a lot about Italy her home area
Of ab Bruto and her current home here in uh in Florence and we are now stuffed to the gills and I’m never eating again not