[Sca-cooks] Re: timbales

Susan Fox-Davis selene at earthlink.net
Wed Aug 29 12:00:40 PDT 2001


Vincent Cuenca wrote:

> 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.
>
> Eden, do you have the texts/translations?  These sound absolutely fantastic.
>
> Vicente

A good article from EPICURIAN Magazine plus web links to modern recipes based on
the film:  <http://www.epicurean.com/articles/ie10.html>

Selene, Caid




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