Stuffed Zucchini Flowers with Provola Fondue Tuscan Pappa Al Pomodoro Warm Caprese with Basil Carcker Eggplant Parmigiana, Paola's Style Pecorino Cheese Flan with Trufflle Traditional Tuscan Onion Soup

Carbonara Stuffed Gnocchi with Crispy Guanciale Red Wine Risotto with Caramelized Onions Double Raviolo Filled with Eggplant Parmigiana in a Tomato and Basil Sauce Ribollita - Traditional Tuscan Bread Soup Pici Pasta with Meat Ragù Ravioli with Ricotta and Spinach n a Butter and Sage Sauce Pici with meat ragù/Bolognese Sous vide Duck Ravioli with orange sauce

Ossobuco Beef Rolls with Sundried Tomatoes Florentine Steak with Green Peppercorn and Rosemary Meditteranean Seabass with Veggie Burger Chicken Or Rabbit Alla Cacciatora Lamb with Confit Tomatoes and Garlic Sauce

Limoncello Tirami Su Ricotta, Pears and White Chocolate Cake Panna Cotta with Caramel and Pine Nuts Apple Fritters, White Chocolate Sauce and Crunchy Hazelnuts Cookies Cannoli with Ricotta, Chocolate and Pistachios Zabaione Cream with Berries and Cut's Tongue

Paola Baccetti

Chef at Casa Ombuto Italian cooking classes in Tuscany

Paola was born in the town of Bibbiena in the beautiful Casentino valley in Tuscany. Paola is a true Tuscan woman who is very passionate about cooking. Her mother was an excellent cook and Paola started learning her skills at an early age. At the age of 11 she spent about a month every summer with her uncle and aunt at their famous restaurant “Dino il Toscano” in Castelli Romani in Rome. She took an active role in their kitchen where they specialized in Tuscan cooking. She studied to be a teacher and got her teaching diploma, but decided to stay with her great passion: cooking and teaching to cook.

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Tuscookany Italian cooking classes Paola Baccetti

One week Tuscookany Italian cooking and hiking Paola Baccetti

”Cooking is art”.

In 1987 she decided to open her own restaurant “Porta de' Fabbri” in the old town center of Bibbiena and run this successfully for 10 years. A success thanks to her intensive research of good ingredients and excellent creativity! She enjoys “making people happy with my meals”: Paola now caters for private groups and other than teaching the Cooking classes Italy at Casa Ombuto she has also been catering for the Casa Ombuto villa rental guests since 2003.

Paola taught “Italian cuisine” at one of the oldest Universities for foreigners in Florence called “Lorenzo de' Medici”. She has also taught classes in San Diego and Santa Barbara (California) with great success.

Paola and her Swiss equestrian husband Rolando lives in a delightful Tuscan farmhouse in the countryside near the medieval town of Poppi with their horses, dogs and their two children Manuele and Alessia.

To Paola………”Cooking is art”. The menu she might make will inspire you.

Author of the cookbook Tuscookany The flavours of Tuscany. Paola teaches the One Week Italian Cookery Course at Casa Ombuto.

Paola's menu

Italian & Tuscan cooking lessons.

Please note that you will be receiving a cookbook with over 100 recipes and the sample menus below is just an indication to whet your appetite! This changes depending on the season and group. If you have something special you have always wanted to learn to make our chefs are happy to see if they can plan this in too.

Paola gives the following courses:

One week Italian cooking course at Casa Ombuto

One week Cooking and Hiking at Casa Ombuto

Antipasti

Stuffed Zucchini Flowers with Provola Fondue
Tuscan Pappa Al Pomodoro
Warm Caprese with Basil Carcker
Eggplant Parmigiana, Paola's Style
Pecorino Cheese Flan with Trufflle
Traditional Tuscan Onion Soup

Primi piatti

Carbonara Stuffed Gnocchi with Crispy Guanciale
Red Wine Risotto with Caramelized Onions
Double Raviolo Filled with Eggplant Parmigiana in a Tomato and Basil Sauce
Ribollita - Traditional Tuscan Bread Soup
Pici Pasta with Meat Ragù
Ravioli with Ricotta and Spinach n a Butter and Sage Sauce
Pici with meat ragù/Bolognese
Sous vide Duck Ravioli with orange sauce

Secondi piatti

Ossobuco
Beef Rolls with Sundried Tomatoes
Florentine Steak with Green Peppercorn and Rosemary
Meditteranean Seabass with Veggie Burger
Chicken Or Rabbit Alla Cacciatora
Lamb with Confit Tomatoes and Garlic Sauce

Contorni / Side veggie courses

Leeks In Little Bytes
Fennel, Oranges and Olive Salad
Vegetable Muffins
Artichokes Flowers

Dolci

Limoncello Tirami Su
Ricotta, Pears and White Chocolate Cake
Panna Cotta with Caramel and Pine Nuts
Apple Fritters, White Chocolate Sauce and Crunchy Hazelnuts Cookies
Cannoli with Ricotta, Chocolate and Pistachios
Zabaione Cream with Berries and Cut's Tongue

Have fun cooking!

What you can expect from Paola’s menu

Come and have fun cooking with chef Paola, learn to roll out pasta the traditional way, bake your own pizza in our wood burningstove and make delicious four course Italian dinners to enjoy with your fellow cooks with wine pairings.

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