Cucina Testa Rossa

SUNDAY SOUL SUPPER IS LIVE!!! 💙👩‍🍳🙏🍳🧘‍♀️

I AM SO EXCITED TO ANNOUNCE THIS! I've wanted to do this for a long time and, well, now is the time! ⏰

Welcome to SUNDAY SOUL SUPPER! A little mindfulness, a minute meditation and a whole lotta' cooking!

I've always loved BIG SUNDAY DINNERS with friends and family coming together to break bread 🥖 and share stories of the week and of life. Around the table 🪑 is where memories are made, and friendships are formed 🤝

With Sunday Soul Supper, cook along with me online, ask questions in real time, then sit down for a beautiful, healthy, delicious meal, together w friends & family 🍽

This Sunday, April 10th, we'll be spatchcocking 😳 a chicken 🐔 together! It's easy and as fun to make as it is to say! I am pairing the chicken with Stag's Leap Rosé 🍷 thanks to Mimi Gatens of Treasury Wine Estates who will be here to tell us all about this delicious wine 😋

So sign up ✅ grab an apron 🥼 - and a chicken 🐔 - and let's get cooking! 👩‍🍳👨‍🍳

"A tavola non si invecchia mai 😊 Diventi solo felice.”
You never get old at the table. You just get happy.

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Join me in My POWER Kitchen to COOK. EAT. HEAL!

please take a moment and click on my picture below to watch a brief video introduction
to my new cooking course, The POWER Kitchen! 

In 2022, I am reclaiming my health! I'm not counting points or south beach keto'ing or any other fad diet. I am focusing on radical self-care! Real care focused on overall health - mind, body, soul - so to that end I am launching my new cooking course, The POWER Kitchen, to teach people WHAT to eat and HOW to cook it to heal. World-renowned doctors and mindfulness leaders and fitness experts will be joining me to explain exactly what certain illnesses are and what we should eat (and not eat!) to heal our illnesses and maintain overall great health! Bon appetit!

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COOK. EAT. DANCE. LOVE! Valentine's Day Dinner and Dancing

Valentine's Day Dinner + Dancing  |  Saturday, Feb 13  |  4pm to 6pm PT

Hard to believe that Valetine’s Day is right around the corner! With indoor dining closed, you can still create a romantic, fun evening at home. Grab your galentine, valentine or bestie for a fun evening of sparkling cocktails, delicious dinner, decadent dessert and delightful dancing!

Cocktails, wine pairing and cooking led by Classically-trained chef and Certified Sommelier Laura Pauli. Salsa Dancing led by world renowned, award winning fitness expert and dancer extraordinaire, Manuel Velazquez.

Le Menu

Starter: 
Champagne Cocktail
Dungeness Crab Salad
 

Main Course:
Filet Mignon with Red Wine Blue Cheese Sauce
California Cabernet or Bordeaux Blend
 

Dessert:
Chocolate Grand Marnier Truffles
Sauterne or Moscato d’Asti/Muscat

Dancing:
Salsa, Mambo, Cha Cha and Rumba!

Sign up now to receive:

• Ideas to decorate your table for festive evening
• Detailed recipes
• Shopping list
• Equipment list
• Step-by-step checklist for set-up prior to cooking
• Links to buy wine, equipment and specialty food

Does not include: food, equipment
Live: All classes hosted live on Zoom.us to a limited number of students 

CLICK HERE TO REGISTER

Grab your whisk and your dancing shoes, we'll see you on the interwebs!  

Let's Get Healthy in 2021!

South Beach Keto | Jan 10 to Feb 28, 2021 | Sundays 10am to 12pm PT

Let's GET HEALTHY in 2021!  I don't know about you, but I am.... 

• Struggling to work off the extra pounds!
• Tired of yo-yo diets that never work!
• Not exercising enough (read: at all)!
• Eating too much turkey, stuffing and holiday baking!
• Losing count of quickly abandoned resolutions!

Please join me – I’ll be doing the program along with you! – in this realistic, healthy, long-term approach to revitalize your health with my South Beach Keto Cooking Program!

This class will follow Dr. Arthur Agatston’s philosophy, research and book, “The New Keto-Friendly South Beach Diet: Rev Your Metabolism and Improve Your Health with the Latest Science of Weight Loss”.

As we learn and cook together through Phase 1 and Phase 2 of his book, you will:

• develop life-long habits of healthy eating and cooking
• learn the techniques behind the recipes
• meal plan for the week
• learn tips and tricks to transform your meals
• receive recipes, shopping list and equipment list

All to make cooking fast, easy, healthy and – most importantly – fun!

You’ll learn how and why things work and the importance of the right ingredients, tools and techniques. Cooking for one or ten, we’ll talk about way to use a recipe in different ways, tips on how to make-ahead, store and freeze. You will also receive preparation instructions so plenty of time to gather your ‘mise en place’ and be ready to cook.

After nine months in quarantine and a cholesterol test later, I need to rejuvenate my health, get my LDLs down and get my movement up. So let’s channel our collective group power and all focus on rejuvenating our health together in community!

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NEED A GIFT? COOKING CLASSES! WINE CLASSES!

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Salsa y Salsa v1.0

We're Back! Every Friday it's Salsa y Salsa (y Cocktail!) with Laura y Manuel!

 

 

 

We're kicking it off on Friday, Nov 20 @ 5-6pm PT - Salsa y Salsa v1.0: RECORDING

• Cocktail: Guava Margarita
  
  • Ingredients: Tequila, limes, guava purée or nectar, Cointreau or Triple Sec, salt or Tajin for the rim
• Salsa: Salsa de Cacahuate y Chile de Árbol
  • Ingredients: (Peanut and Arbol Chile Salsa) olive or canola oil, sesame seeds, dried arbol chiles, dried guajillo chile, garlic, onion, apple cider vinegar, dried oregano, roasted unsalted peanuts, salt
  • Here is a very simple version of this recipe: Salsa Macha
• Salsa: Manuel Velazquez, award-wining dance instructor & professional dancer will teach us all how to salsa! Ay caramba! 

We are SO looking forward to salsa-ing all together again on the interwebs very soon! We'll be hosting these every Friday , even the day after Thanksgiving (gotta' work of all that stuffing!) so save the dates. I'll be posting the registration and recipes for the rest of the year shortly. 

Besos y un gran embrazo,
Laura y Manuel xo

PS: Can't wait to the the OG posse back together! 

Quarantine Community Cooking v8.0

Welcome to Quarantine Community Weekend Marathon v8.0

QUARANTINE COOKING IS BACK for another marathon weekend! This weekend we are going to COOK, to COCKTAIL, to CALISTHENIC, to CAVORT and to CRUSH the CORONA! I hope you will join us!

Hello my fellow Quarantiners! Thank you so much for zooming in to our Quarantine Community. In this time of having to be apart, it's more important than ever to come together and support and celebrate each other. I hope to see all your beautiful faces this weekend so we can do just that!

Attached below is the schedule, registration links and all the recipes we are cooking this weekend, along with links to buy the spirits and wines. Many more details are on the registration pages so please remember to register for each zoom session!


Friday, May 15 @ 5pm PT - Quarantine Cocktails & Quarantine Calisthenics & Quarantine Cooking: Register

• Cocktail: Paloma Tequila Cocktail
• Recipe: Paloma
• Ingredients: blanco tequila, grapefruit soda, lime juice, salt
• Calisthenics: Special Guests: Manuel Velazquez and Cathleen Murakami, award-wining, global fitness professionals
• Cooking: Laura Pauli, Cucina Testa Rossa
  • Recipe: Mediterranean Olives
  • Ingredients: Castelvetrano olives, small chili de arbol or dried cayenne peppers, coriander seeds, bay leaves, chili pepper flakes, black peppercorns, salt, orange, olive oil. 

   
    


Saturday, May 16 @ 4pm PT - Quarantine Cooking & Quarantine Corking & Quarantunes & Community: Register

• Cooking: Laura Pauli, Cucina Testa Rossa
  
  • Recipe: Reverse-sear Steak with Mushroom Zinfandel Sauce and Gorgonzola Cream (New York strip or rib eye cut 1 to 1 1/2 inches thick, thyme, mushrooms, inexpensive Zinfandel, butter, Gorgonzola, cream) recipe to come! 
  • Recipe: Chocolate Heart
• Corking Special Guest: April Nalle, Nalle Winery
  
  • 2018 Dry Creek Valley Zinfandel
  • 2018 Hopkins Ranch Pinot Noir
• QuaranTunes: Hold on to your HATS, it's the STARS of BEACH BLANKET BABYLON!!! 
  • In conversation and song with Renée Lubin and Curt Branom!!! 
• Community: Frontline Foods in partnership with World Central Kitchen

          
   

Sunday, May 17 - Quarantine Cooking with Real Moms & Real Chefs v5.0: Register                             

• Girl Grill Power! With summer around the corner, it's all about grilling so please join us to learn some indoor and outdoor grilling tips and tricks and meal ideas that are crowd-pleasers. We’ll make easy marinades, show different ways to grill and of course grill some beloved paninis!
  
  • Recipe: Grilled, stuffed pork chop  
  • Recipe: Grilled vegetables
  • Recipe: Marinade
  • Project: Panini - bring your favorite sandwich and we'll take it to 11!

Looking forward to seeing you on the interwebs this weekend. Thank you so very much to all who have participated! The connection and support and love the past six weeks reaching across these zooms on the information superhighway has been heartwarming. xo Laura

Quarantine Community Cooking v7.0

Welcome to Quarantine Community Weekend Marathon v7.0



Hello my fellow Quarantiners! Thank you so much for zooming in to our Quarantine Community. In this time of having to be apart, it's more important than ever to come together and support and celebrate each other. I hope to see all your beautiful faces this weekend so we can do just that!

Attached below is the schedule, registration links and all the recipes we are cooking this weekend, along with links to buy the spirits and wines. Many more details are on the registration pages so please remember to register for each zoom session!

Friday, May 8 @ 5pm PT - Quarantine Cocktails & Quarantine Calisthenics & Quarantine Cooking: Register

• Cocktail: Prohibition Spirits, Mint Melon Gin
• Ingredients: gin, melon, lemon, lime, club soda
• Calisthenics: Special Guest: Manuel Velazquez, award-wining, global fitness professional
• Cooking: Laura Pauli, Cucina Testa Rossa
  • Recipe: Camarones Borrachos - Bourbon Flambéed Shrimp in Garlic Cream Sauce
  • Ingredients: shrimp, garlic, tarragon, bourbon, cream
  • Shrimp from Water2Table
• Quarantunes: to be confirmed - the show must go on!
  
  

   
        

Saturday, May 9 @ 4pm PT - Quarantine Cooking & Quarantine Corking & Quarantine Quailing & Quarantine Community: Register

• Cooking: Laura Pauli, Cucina Testa Rossa
  
  • Recipe: Stuffed Quail (quail, leeks, mushrooms, lemon thyme, garlic, rustic bread, red wine (cheap pinot), cream)
  • Recipe: Pommes Purée (yukon gold potatoes, butter, milk and more butter…. )
  • Recipe: Whole Wheat Brown Butter Shortbread with Orange Chantilly Cream and Boozy Berries
• Community: Bob Klein, Community Grains
• Quailing Special Guest: Brent Wolfe, Wolfe Ranch Quail
• Corking Special Guest: Sara Beer, True North Imports & Nicolas-Jay
  
  • SPECIAL BUNDLE: 2017 Willamette Valley Pinot Noir & 2018 Affinites Chardonnay
• QuaranTunes: Jazz vocalist, singer, songwriter, guitarist Deborah Winters!
• QuaranGood: Frontline Foods in partnership with World Central Kitchen

     

 

Sunday, May 10 - Real Moms & Real Chefs is taking a break!

• Mother's Day in Quarantine? Real Moms and Real Chefs to the rescue. We are taking a break to celebrate Mother's Day but here is the link to a recipe that is fast, fun, easy and can get the kids involved! 
  
  • Recipe: Mini Dutch Babies  

Looking forward to seeing you on the interwebs this weekend. Thank you so very much to all who have participated! The connection and support and love the past eight weeks reaching across these zooms on the information superhighway has been heartwarming.

xo Laura

 

 

Quarantine Community Cooking v6.0

Welcome to Quarantine Community Weekend Marathon v6.0



Hello my fellow Quarantiners! Thank you so much for zooming in to our Quarantine Community. In this time of having to be apart, it's more important than ever to come together and support and celebrate each other. I hope to see all your beautiful faces this weekend so we can do just that!

Attached below is the schedule, registration links and all the recipes we are cooking this weekend, along with links to buy the spirits and wines. Many more details are on the registration pages so please remember to register for each zoom session!

Friday, May 1 @ 5pm PT - Quarantine Cocktails & Quarantine Calisthenics & Quarannouncement: Register

QC6 is coming to you LIVE from Mersea Restaurant on Treasure Island!

• Cocktail: St. Supery Winery, Sauvignon Blanc
• Calisthenics Special Guest: Manuel Velazquez, award-wining, global fitness professional
• Quarannouncement It's Sauvignon Blanc Day!
  • David Strada, US Marketing, New Zealand Winegrowers
  • Michael Scholz, VP Winemaking & Vineyards, St. Supery
  • Josh Scott of Allan Scott Winery
• Quarannouncement: Mersea is OPEN!
  • Parke Ulrich, Co-founder & Chef 
  • MeeSunBoice, Co-founder 

Saturday, May 2 @ 4pm PT - Quarantine Cooking & Quarantine Corking & QuaranArt & Quarantunes: Register

• Cooking: Laura Pauli, Cucina Testa Rossa
  
  • Recipe: Herb-Mustard Crusted Roast Lamb
  • Recipe: Pea-Mint Purée
  • Recipe: Strawberry Shortcake
• Corking Special Guest: Chris Sawyer, SawyerSomm & Dave Hewitt, Benovia Winery
  
  • 2019 Rosé of Pinot Noir
  • 2017 Sonoma Mountain Grenache   
• QuaranArt: Shana Cinquegrana, ShanaShay
• QuaranTunes goes to Broadway!
  • Special Guest: Kelli Rabke, Singer & Actress - bio 
  • Special Guest: John Fischer, Musical Director - bio

Sunday,May 3 @ 10:30am PT - Quarantine Cooking with Real Moms & Real Chefs v4.0: Register 

• Mother's Day in Quarantine? Real Moms and Real Chefs to the rescue. We'll help you plan the most festive Mother's Day ever! From food to gifts, festive cocktails to flowers.
  
  • Recipe: Mini Dutch Babies  
  • Recipe: Parfait: yogurt, berries, honey, nuts & fun glass
  • Project: Mom's Power Cards
  • Project: Paper flowers

Looking forward to seeing you on the interwebs this weekend. Thank you so very much to all who have participated! The connection and support and love the past six weeks reaching across these zooms on the information superhighway has been heartwarming. xo Laura

 

Quarantine Community Cooking v5.0

Welcome to Quarantine Community Weekend Marathon v5.0

Hello my fellow Quarantiners! Thank you so much for zooming in to our Quarantine Community. In this time of having to be apart, it's more important than ever to come together and support and celebrate each other. I hope to see all your beautiful faces this weekend so we can do just that!

Attached below is the schedule, registration links and all the recipes we are cooking this weekend, along with links to buy the spirits and wines. Many more details are on the registration pages so please remember to register for each zoom session!

Friday, April 24 @ 5pm PT - Quarantine Cocktails & Quarantine Calisthenics & Quarannouncement: Register

• Cocktail: The Paradiso with St. Blaise Vodka from Old World Spirits
• Calisthenics Special Guest: Manuel Velazquez, award-wining, global fitness professional

Saturday, April 25 @ 4pm PT - Quarantine Cooking & Quarantine Corking & Quarantunes: Register

• Cooking: Laura Pauli, Cucina Testa Rossa
  
  • Recipe: Roast Pork Chops with Caramelized Onions and Pears
  • Recipe: Chocolate Truffles
• Corking Special Guest: Katy Wilson, LaRue Winery
• Corking Special Guest: Peter Palmer, Rent-a-Sommie 
  • 2018 LaRue Chardonnay, Charles Heintz Vineyard, Sonoma Coast
  • 2016 LaRue Pinot Noir, Sonoma Coast
  • Read about Katy in Forbes Magazine
• Quarantunes Special Guest: Nina Storey, actress, musician, composer, singer, ray of sunshine 

Sunday, April 26 @ 10:30am PT - Quarantine Cooking with Real Moms & Real Chefs v3.0: Register 

• Cooking: What Came First...Chicken 4 ways and a few more
  
  • Recipe: Laura's World Famous Roast Chicken
  • Recipe: Karin's Legs -n- Leeks
  • Recipe: Lindsay’s Spicy Honey Brushed Chicken Thighs
  • Recipe: Mary's Mango Chicken

Looking forward to seeing you on the interwebs this weekend. Thank you so very much to all who have participated! The connection and support and love the past six weeks reaching across these zooms on the information superhighway has been heartwarming. xo Laura