#PastaMagic Archives

Pasta with Turkey leftovers

by Leaves | 22 Dec, 2015 | #PastaMagic, Cooking, Healthy

With Christmas just around the corner here are some enjoyable and tasty ways to use up your leftover turkey! Turkey pasta salad with basil-mint pesto and lemon zest Boil our Leaves’ Penne with garlic for just 5 minutes. In the meanwhile put basil, mint,...

Pasta Memories – Pasta and love

by Leaves | 25 Oct, 2015 | #PastaMagic, Cooking

What do you cook on a first date? Now it wasn’t exactly our first date, but it was indeed the first time we cooked and ate something together at my place in Amsterdam. Sabine and I approached the open space where living room and kitchen were located, scouting...

Pasta Memories – Pasta abroad

by Leaves | 22 Oct, 2015 | #PastaMagic, Cooking, Tradition

In my twenties I travelled a lot across Europe, I moved to Amsterdam where I lived for 5 years, before settling in amazing Ireland. Exactly like in some typical jokes, when you are abroad as an Italian you can expect a lot of people reacting screaming things like...

Pasta Memories – Fuel for study nights

by Leaves | 16 Oct, 2015 | #PastaMagic, Cooking, Tradition

There is one thing that I love of Italian culture: the appreciation of the beauty of sitting at home with friends, around the table. Eating well, drinking well and having a great time. We are trained like this starting from a very young age. The pizza night with...

Pasta Memories – Independence in a bowl

by Leaves | 13 Oct, 2015 | #PastaMagic, Cooking, Tradition

I like to think I’ve always been a free spirit. I gave my parents quite a few headaches (although I’m sure a lot of satisfaction too) as I always wanted to do things my way. Recently I was thinking of some of these moments in my teenage years, when I...

Pasta Memories – Teenage Penne

by Leaves | 10 Oct, 2015 | #PastaMagic, Cooking, Tradition

I am a lucky guy. For many reasons. One of them is that I always had the chance to come back home for lunch during my middle school years. I’m lucky because my mum would wake up super-early everyday, do all the prepping necessary before going to work (she worked...