Episode 4: Made in Italy with Silvia Colloca

Silvia wrestles an octopus in exchange for a delectable seafood salad, learns how to make cheese and egg balls the Italian way, and teams up with her brother to make mouth-watering onion focaccia.

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Silvia Colloca ventures to the seaside village of Vasto, where she wrestles an octopus in exchange for a delectable seafood salad recipe called polipo con patate (octopus and potato salad). She then pops into Sulmona Markerts, Abruzzo, to purchase the freshest peaches for her spectacular summer dessert pesche al vino con mascarpone (wine-drenched peaches with mascarpone cream). Continuing on to her mother’s birthplace, Torricella in Abruzzo, Sivlia reconnects with life at its simplest and catches up with her cousin Rosanna who shares her take on a family classic called pallotte cacio e ovo (cheese-and-egg balls). Then travelling south to Molise, Silvia collects some roadside onions and teams up with her brother to make mouth-watering onion focaccia.

 

Recipes 

Focaccia with stewed onion (focaccia con cipolle)

Stale bread and pecorino dumplings (pallotte cacio e ovo)

Octopus and potato salad (polipo con patate)

Wine-drenched peaches with mascarpone cream (pesche al vino con crema di mascarpone)