When I'm in Fort Worth, one of my favorite restaurants is Nona Totta. It's a teeny tiny authentic Italian restaurant off of Magnolia and the chef, Donatella Trotti, moved to FW from Milan after working for Prada. What a life. Anyway, her food is always to die for and she makes everything that comes out of her kitchen. It's wonderful and Donatella even won Fort Worth's most recent top chef competition. That's beating out a lot of nationally renowned chefs, I might add.
Clearly I love Nona Totta and share this affection with my mother, so when she saw that Donatella was hosting a cooking class at Central Market's cooking school, she signed us up. We got there very early (that's rather unusual for my mom) and we got to sit front and center!
The Donatella Trotti.
Did I mention you get to eat everything she makes? This deliciousness was cipolle caramellate with gelato al parmigiano. That would be a caramelized onion tart with parmesan gelato. Sinful.
But really easy!
Lasagne di pane, a bread lasagna. Wonderful.
Capesante con il Mais e salsa verde--scallops on a bed of grilled corn with a lemon parsley pesto.
Plenty of wine and prosecco were passed around.
A bunet, a pudding type dessert. Again, amazing.
My mom and I hung around afterward and chatted with Donatella. She's nice, funny and "doesn't care to eat her own food." People like that drive me nuts.
We really enjoyed learning to cook her recipes and I'm looking forward to making them!
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