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Prosciutto crudo, the dry-cured ham that we refer to as prosciutto, has to be my favorite Italian discovery. So you can imagine that my husband and I sat there with drooly dropped jaws last weekend as we watched Giada de Laurentiis make her way through the hundreds of curing hams in a prosciutto factory in Parma, Italy.

All that prosciutto in one place.

We love prosciutto, we even served it as part of the anti-pasti course at our wedding reception. It goes in (and around) everything… from omelets, pasta, and melon balls to stuffed chicken, asparagus, and rotola. Aaaaah, yes. Rotola.

Is there anything better to munch on than prosciutto and cheese. Last night, I dropped a package of Buitoni Four-Cheese Ravioli into a pot because I just didn’t feel like cooking anything more involved. Eh, it happens. Plus, I’d already made a loaf of homemade rosemary bread and had two loaves of no-knead bread rising upstairs where it was warmer. [continue reading…]