Video Gallery

A selection of videos for your enjoyment. Some are instructional and others show our restaurants and the many different experiences you can enjoy with Caldesi.

We add videos all the time so make sure to come back and check out our video page often!

Katie Makes Pasta With Raw Sauce

This is a very quick and easy sauce to make for pasta. Pasta Alla Checca (Pasta with raw sauce) is full of fresh flavours and can be made while your pasta boils.

Making Fettuccine

Giancarlo uses the pasta machine to make Fettuccine. You can also roll out the pasta ensuring that you keep your surface and the rolling pin well floured so it doesn’t stick. The ideal thickness is about 1mm so when you hold it up you can see your fingers through the pasta.

Hot Bacon Salad Dressing

Here’s a recipe from ‘Around the World in Salads’. It’s a really tasty salad of round lettuce, gorgonzola, toasted pine nuts and a hot bacon dressing.

Tips & Tricks

Here’s how Giancarlo keeps his green herbs fresher longer in the fridge. They can also be frozen after this method.

Tasty Orange Salad

Here’s Katie’s recipe for a salad of orange and avocado that is surprisingly simple but really tasty. It’s from the Caldesi book ‘Around the World in Salads’.

Porcini Pasta

Giancarlo’s quick and easy porcini pasta using dried porcini, herbs, garlic and some cream.

Babbo’s Eggs

Giancarlo makes a quick and simple breakfast dish using some tomato sauce (see video below for recipe) and fresh eggs laid by his own hens.

Basic Tomato Sauce

Giancarlo shows us how he makes his base tomato sauce – the building block for many Italian pasta dishes.

Giancarlo’s Herby Stuffing For Porchetta

From Giancarlo’s ‘Basics of Italian’ series here’s a recipe for herby stuffing for Porchetta or to stuff into roast chicken.

Pizza al metro the Caldesi way…

Giancarlo and Katie show us how to make an authentic ‘Pizza al metro’ .

La Cucina Caldesi Cookery Class

The only Italian cookery school in central London!

You can choose from our extensive selection of culinary courses, wine classes, children’s classes and even our private dining or tailor-made cooking classes. Click on ‘View Our Courses‘ to see the full range of available classes and to make an online booking.

“The best way to really learn is to be involved in the cooking – our courses are very hands-on, offering plenty of opportunities to taste and try dishes whilst they are being prepared. ”

Katie & Giancarlo Caldesi

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Pizza al metro the Caldesi way…

Giancarlo and Katie show us how to make an authentic ‘Pizza al metro’ .

Safely Remove an Avocado’s Stone

Giancarlo shows us how he removes the stone from an avocado.

Orange and Avocado Salad

Here’s a really tasty salad from the Caldesi’s book ‘Around the World in Salads’. It’s really simple to make but delivers in taste on so many levels.

Keeping Green Herbs Longer

Here Giancarlo gives us his tip on keeping herbs like parsley fresher longer in the fridge which is also a technique for preparing them for freezing.

Hot Salad Bacon Salad

Here’s Katie’s salad of bacon and gorgonzola on round lettuce with a hot bacon and pine nut dressing. It’s from the Caldesi book ‘Around the World in Salads’.

Quick and Easy Dried Porcini with Pasta

Giancarlo found a pack of dried porcini mushrooms in the cupboard… here’s a simple and tasty supper dish he made using them.

Babbo’s Eggs

Giancarlo makes a quick and simple breakfast dish using some tomato sauce and fresh eggs laid by his own hens.

Basic Tomato Sauce

As part of his series ‘Basics of Italian cookery’ Giancarlo shows us how to make a tomato sauce.

Cauliflower Parcels – Simple and Healthy!

Katie shows us the simplest way to make a healthy side dish of cauliflower steamed with a little butter and seasoning.

Giancarlo’s Garlic and Herb Stuffing

Giancarlo shows us how to make his garlic and herb stuffing for porchetta and chicken as part of his basic Italian cookery series.

Giancarlo knows his onions…

Giancarlo Caldesi shows us how he chops his onions.

Salsa di pomodoro the Caldesi way…

Here’s the recipe for the perfect tomato sauce for pizza from Giancarlo and Katie.

Katie Makes a Very Simple, Very Quick and Tasty Cheesy Pasta

Left over bit of cheese in the fridge? Just grate, add some cream and seasoning in a pan. Add to pasta… easy supper.

Katie Cooks – Whipped Ricotta with preserved cherries and amaretti crunch

Katie at home whipping up a simple but very tasty Italian dessert.

Kale & Ricotta Gnocchi in Sage, Bacon & Butter Sauce

In Florence, the name of these gnocchi literally means ‘nude’ gnocchi as they are like the spinach and ricotta stuffing that you find in ravioli only without their pasta clothes. If you don’t have kale, use spinach or Swiss chard leaves instead. Serve them with the bacon, butter and sage sauce or Our Favourite Tomato Sauce.

How to Make Cocoa Pasta

Here’s how to make fresh pasta flavoured with cocoa which can be used to make ravioli stuffed with gorgonzola and walnuts in a lemon butter sauce. See Katie’s blog for the full recipe.

Easy Fresh Pasta

Giancarlo shows how easy it is to make fresh pasta in a blender using 1 egg for each 100g of 00 flour.

Making Fettuccine

Giancarlo uses the pasta machine to make Fettuccine. You can also roll out the pasta ensuring that you keep your surface and the rolling pin well floured so it doesn’t stick. The ideal thickness is about 1mm so when you hold it up you can see your fingers through the pasta.

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