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Episode 3.29 - Preview of Cooking LIVE from Nonna's House, Cookbook from the Netflix film
A love letter to comfort food and the people who keep it alive, this episode takes a cinematic cookbook—born from a story of Italian grandmas cooking in a neighborhood restaurant—and turns its pages into dinner. We walk through “escaped birds,” a saltimbocca-adjacent pork roll with sage and prosciutto, seared in butter and olive oil until golden. Then we layer in a bright parsley salsa verde that cuts through the richness and finish everything on a bed of soft polenta that tastes like a hug you can hold with a spoon.
We share why these recipes feel like a memoir you can eat: the faces in the book are the cooks behind the flavors, and their technique is practical, not precious. You’ll hear how to swap pancetta for prosciutto without losing balance, how to coax fond for sauce without scorching, and how a handful of fresh sage can perfume a pan. We break down texture choices for polenta, how to keep it oven-warm and silky, and the small, steady steps that make a home kitchen feel like a neighborhood trattoria.
By the end, you’ll have a game plan you can cook tonight—roll, brown, baste, spoon—and a new respect for the way simple ingredients tell big stories. If food nostalgia, classic Italian comfort, and no-fuss kitchen craft are your thing, this one belongs in your weeknight rotation. If you cooked along or tried your own twist, subscribe, leave a review, and share your favorite Nonna-style recipe with us.
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He hires these Italian grandmas or puts an ad for these Italian grandmas to come and cook in the restaurant. And so, of course, he wins the hearts of um well I'm ruining the movie, but he wins the hearts of the neighbors. Uh, but that's what this cookbook is. It's the actual, like the ladies on here, these are actually the grandmas that uh were in the rest or in the restaurant, and these are their recipes. So um super cool. So if you are a cookbook, it's also like a story, a memoir. So it's it's a great read as well. Um, so you need it need it for your your home library. Um, so tonight we're gonna cook um, well, three things, but two I put on here. It's called they call it the Escaped Birds. It's um pork with uh they say panchetta, I did proschute, Italian sausage, sage, and then we're gonna cook it um in some olive oil and butter. It's gonna be not very healthy, but it's gonna be very delicious. Um, it's kind of like a um salt and boca, which feels like it's her version of a salt and boca, which is pork, panchetta, like you pound it, panchetta, sage, roll it, and you cook it in. So it I think it's her version of that. Um, and then I picked um, so we've got some fresh sage here. It's like a parsley pesto, um, that or it's she calls it a salsa verde, so we're just gonna kind of dollop that on top. Um, so I thought that would kind of go nice. And then uh we're serving it over polenta, which is uh an Italian cornmeal. So I have that, it's delicious. Um I already did that, it's in the oven keeping warm. Um, so let's get started. All right. Yay! Oh, thank you. I haven't even done anything yet. Yay! Okay, and