[Sca-cooks] Timpano

[Adler, Chris]

> This sounds a lot like the "timpano" served in "The Big Night". Found it
in
> the comedy section of the video store, but it wasn't all that funny.
Good,
> but not funny.  The dish is basically a pot lined with pasta dough and
then
> filled with cheese, meatballs, hand-rolled ziti, and sauce and baked.  It
> was round, golden-brown, and caused death threats on the chef. (Direct
> quote: "That was so good I should kill you!")  I saw that thing turned out
> of the pot and I started drooling.

Whilst visiting my mother at Christmas last year, she urged me to see that
film. We rented it and I thoroughly enjoyed it. No, it's not a riotously
funny film, but very good nonetheless.

My mother is a wonderful cook -- kneads fresh bread every day by hand, etc.
She told me that she'd been intrigued by the timpano idea, did some cookbook
research, and made a reasonable facsimile of it -- homemade pasta,
meatballs, pie crust, and all. The friends who helped her with the complex
process and then ate it for dinner declared it a success.

Katja