GROCERY HAUL IN ITALY - Part 2 (Pandemic Shopping)

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This one is complete with American Thanksgiving buys (and substitutions), chocolate hazelnut spread comparisons, the full shopping list of both videos, and much more! This was produced during the covid pandemic restrictions imposed as Italy tries to reduce the spread of coronavirus.

Video 1:
Onions
Garlic
Carrots
Yogurt (Fage)
Cereal - Nature Mix - Fiocchi
Milk
Refillable dishwashing liquid
Can opener
Butter - salted and sweet
Arborio rice
Polenta (yellow)
Oregano
Cinnamon
Black olives
Pistachios
Walnuts
Fennel herbal tea
Taralli (peperoncino)
San Pellegraino (flavors: Chinò & l’aranciata)
Pasta (Rummo brand: Spaghetti No. 3 & Gnocchetti Sardi No. 63, Orecchiette)
Tomato paste
Cans of whole peeled tomatoes
Passata di Pomodoro
Eggs
Parmiggiano Reggiano
Chocolate (milk chocolate and dark chocolate)

Video 2:
Grisbi
Pan di Stelle
Abbracci
Potatoes (for mashed potatoes)
Dried cranberries (for cornbread)
Fresh Currants (instead of fresh/frozen cranberries)
Pecans (for topping of sweet potato casserole)
Sweet potatoes (for sweet potato casserole)
Campari soda
Pan di Stelle Spread (used in a pan di stelle babka)
Nutella (glass turned into a wine glass)
Crema Spalmabile al pistacchio (pistachio spread, used to make pistacchio cookies)
Cream Novi (yet another chocolate/hazelnut spread)
Baking Soda
Coarse salt (sale grosso)
Fine salt (sale fino)


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[Flometis]

Anyway, 80% of glasses in Italian households are Nutella jars. They also used to make many limited edition jars with cartoon characters, Christmas decorations etc, but I am afraid they are harder to find these days.

[WexMajor]

The backing soda in italy, is used for stomach ache.
You put it into water and drink it.
And a lot of people don't know you can use it for baking.

[captainufo]

Crema Novi feels more real because technically... it is. Nutella kinda sees hazelnuts and cocoa from VERY far away, as in they happen to be present in the same building but not necessarily in the same room when it's made :P
Crema Novi instead has a higher percentage of actual ingredients instead of flavors and oils (something like 13% hazelnuts in Nutella, 45% in CN). The same applies to most of the "off-brands" varieties of chocholate and hazelnuts spreads.

[bafio]

Try cedrata Tassoni it is excellent. It is better than a lemonade.

[gabrielenicoli]

Katie, if you like hazelnut spreads you need to try the ancestor of Nutella. The OG Gianduia… which is like 50% Italian hazelnut from Piedmont if authentic :)

[kroneker]

Every Tuesday in via superga from 8 to 13 there is the weekly market, like your local shops of fruit, vegetables, salumeria but bigger. Street vendors from nearest city also gather there. That is the real italian style shopping

[enricocazzulo]

I sincerely hope things will be going better so you can enjoy Italy's "sagre" (each town, more or less, has its traditional festival, where you can taste the typical food from the area).

[MSfenice]

You should try “Nocciolata” by Rigoni di Asiago
It’s organic (and there’s a milk free version which is simply divine) and it tastes 1000 times better than nutella

[joshuafagans]

Oh, I love how things are found in different places and even different stores in other countries! I find it fun to figure it out!!

[sro]

I notice you look for bio products in Italy. Rigoni di Asiago makes chocolate hazelnut spread that is organic and divine! Thanks for the videos!

[angstbringer]

I do prefer the Novi... mostly because I live in the city where it's made, Novi Ligure. We have a big chocolate factory and a dedicated Novi chocolate shop.
Also if you haven't yet, try the Novi gianduiotti: tiny chocolate ingots, really soft and delicious.

[SBVCP]

People use (here as wel) the bigger salt (sale grosso? here is sal gruesa) because its lets salt per volume, and so its easier to mesure by hand how much to put each time without ruining it

[simonedonati]

I’m glad to see the Novi spread! It’s the only real hazelnut spread with 45% of real nuts! I would also suggest to try the NOVI NOCCIOLATO GIANDUJA 😍

[alicetwain]

I use sale grosso for pretty much everything. Sale fino I only use for very last minute corrections or for the table.

[TechnoGuys]

you absolutely must also try the spreads of pernigotti

[ilaria]

Novi has the best taste and is the healthier... The winner to me ❤️

[teti]

if you like pandistelle i suggest you to try cookies tre marie "ancora uno al cacao", amazing!

[agatha]

Hi. Science and culinary art. You'd better put your salt (sale grosso) in the water only when it's boiling (not before, as I saw in the video), and together with the pasta. And here is the reason. Putting cold things, like pasta, into boiling water (or any other material), reduces the temperature of the water (which will stop boiling, even though just for a few seconds), and that affects the cooking of pasta, that should be immersed in water at the evaporating point (which is 100 °C at sea level). On the contrary, adding salt (for some chemical reasons I am not able to explain, or even understand) reduces the loss of temperature of the water (you will notice that water will boil in a more turbulent way when you add salt), and that will counter-balance the lowering of the temperature obtained when you add a relevant mass of cold things in it (pasta), and will permit an ideal temperature for the initial cooking conditions of pasta to be reached. Well, this is what some cooks told me long ago, and I have done so since then: I really have not made experiments with that, anyways… Try. Bel video, complimenti.

[chelseapw]

Ok, the Campari Sodas made my heart skip a beat.

[elisabethandersson]

Pan di stelle is so good to dip apple in