Two Greedy Italians

I love it when you stumble across something good on telly. It’s quite rare these days.
I’ve slowly put my Hollyoaks obsession to bed, that died when Justin left.
To be honest it was time to put down the unnecessaryily pretty Cheshire actors and move away from E4 First Look at 7pm every night.
The reality TV shows don’t float my boat, I could really give two shits what Peter Andre, Kerry Katona or Katie Price do when they’re not in the tabloids for some kind of mutual bickering\ wardrobe malfunction\ new endorsed product flogging.

However, I somehow came across Two Greedy Italians on BBC2, and loved it instantly.
The basis is... two old Italian friends, they’re both internationally renowned fantastic chefs, but first and foremost they’re best friends.
Each have won awards for their fantastic cooking, unique recipes, restaurants, books, but they are so enthusiastic about life and the main ingredients of life. These being love, family and passion
Their programme is compelling viewing.




Famous chefs Antonio Carluccio and Gennaro Contaldo

The show is really therapeutic. It could easily double up as an hour long counseling session. They should play it on repeat in rehab.
Forget drugs all you need to do is follow these wise Italians and you’ll end up eating your way to a heavenly utopia filled with handmade tortellini, seafood linguine cooked on a boat in the Med, the best Italian wine all seasoned with love, friendship and dreams of the perfect, idyllic life.

The two chefs bicker as much as they laugh, and spend as much money on food as they do time talking about love.
Their favourite dish is tortellini, which can take up to six hours to prepare, each handmade squashed tiny tortellini shell..."Each made with a little bit of love”, they enthuse.

They believe happiness is sitting round a huge table with your family and friends eating out of massive bowl of shared, home-made pasta dishes.

Each week I take a little piece of their advice and a little nugget of their excitement for life.
I want to grow up like them and pass on their enthusiasm and happiness for life to my children.

God bless The Two Greedy Italians.
They make me happy to have a hangover in bed on a Sunday.
 
Well for a good 60 minutes anyway.

Each hand made Tortellini created with love