Making pasta from scratch sounds a lot less intimidating when someone is right there showing you what the dough should look like. Even better when that someone is an Italian nonna.
Cavit and Nonna’s Italy have put together a free recorded holiday cooking class with meat cannelloni and bruschetta on the menu. There’s fresh pasta to roll, a ragù filling to make, and both basil and pistachio pesto for the bread.
Think of it as a stay-in dinner project for two. The class is about 48 minutes long, and the menu on Cavit’s page serves two. The video’s runtime is not a promise that your whole dinner will be ready in 48 minutes.
You can pause Nonna while you catch up
A recorded lesson has one very practical advantage: nobody has to keep up with the person who already knows how to make pasta. Pause while you work, replay the rolling technique, or watch the whole thing before getting flour on the counter.
The class page has chapter buttons, so you can go straight to the part you need:
- 4:00: The ragù filling.
- 10:40: Fresh pasta dough.
- 19:55: Rolling the pasta sheets.
- 24:30: Filling the cannelloni.
- 30:45: Bruschetta and the two pestos.
Start with the ingredient list, not the play button
Cavit provides a free printable shopping list, with the ingredients also listed on the page. Read that before inviting someone over to cook: the pasta uses “00” flour and eggs, the filling includes meat and dairy, and the pestos call for pine nuts and pistachios.
For a smaller project, the bruschetta section gives you a way into the class without tackling the pasta that night. You can save the cannelloni lesson for a weekend when rolling dough sounds like the plan rather than another thing to finish.
This is a wine-brand collaboration, with Cavit pairings woven through the presentation, so it’s a grown-up cooking-night idea. The recorded lesson is free; the live Nonna’s class linked on the same page is a separate paid booking. Cavit advertises 15% off that option with WELOVECAVIT, but booking it is not required to watch the recording.
Open the free class and ingredient list here.
