Now you can watch us cook, and follow along at home!

We’ve been having some fun cooking some of the Alimentari classics at home. Stop by the shop and grab all (or most) of your ingredients for these simple Italian dishes that you can make it your own kitchen at home.

Stay tuned for more videos to come, and don’t forget to check out our extensive collection of recipes below, with staff contributions!

- Christopher & Sarah

Pizza (Two Ways!)

Watch Christopher show you how our house made pizza dough can be used to make two different styles of pizza…both sooooo delicious.

Tiramisu

Get the whole family in the kitchen to lend their hands with this quick and easy dessert recipe. It’s a real “pick me up”!

Fresh Pasta & Cacio e Pepe

Learn the tips and tricks to making fresh pasta at home from Christopher Terpstra himself! Then, you’ll see how to pull a quick Cacio e Pepe together that is a great weeknight pasta dinner dish.

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Linguine with Clams

This dish will impress your guests but won’t keep you in the kitchen for long. It comes together in the time it takes the pasta to cook, and everyone will be wowed!

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Spinach Tagliardi Soup

The stars of this dish are the beautiful green squares of tagliardi pasta, also known as maltagliati or 'badly cut'. These shapes are traditionally born as the scraps of pasta dough left over from cutting other shapes. Waste not want not!

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Tajarin with Porcini Mushrooms and Herbs

Tajarin (pronounced tah-tahreen) is a specialty of the Piedmont region of Northern Italy. The name is a dialect variation of taglierini, which just means thin little ribbons. This pasta often contains a higher egg ratio and has a lovely bite. It's most commonly served with white truffle or leftover roast drippings but here we made a sumptuous, buttery mushroom sauce to coat the pasta.

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Pesto alla Trapanese

A traditional pairing of pasta to condimento hailing from the west Sicilian city of Trapani. Pesto doesn't have to refer to the basil-dominant Genovese style but can be any combination of ingredients pulverized with a mortar and pestle. This variation focuses primarily on tomato, basil, cheese and almonds, which makes for a savoury sweet harmony of flavours.

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Cacio e Pepe Pasta

"Cacio e pepe" is Italian for "cheese and pepper." This meal pleases a crowd despite its simplicity and pleases a cook because of its simplicity. Try our cacio e pepe compound butter to reduce the cooking time even more.

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