117. Cozy Winter Cooking with Farm-to-Table Restaurant Owner in the Italian Alps | Vea Carpi of Mas Del Saro

Published: Jan. 27, 2022, 9 a.m.

It was so fun to talk to a fellow homesteader and mama who shares my love for cozy winter cooking.\xa0 My new friend, Vea Carpi, is a farmer, cook, wife, mother, and restaurant owner in the Italian Alps.\xa0 In this conversation, she shares all about her unlikely story of becoming a homesteader and what she is currently cooking and serving in her restaurant and home.\xa0 I came away from this conversation with so many new ideas to try in my own kitchen, and I hope you will find some inspiration too.\n\nIn this episode, we cover:\n\n- What lead Vea to start a restaurant out of her home\n\n- What Vea is serving in her farm-to-table restaurant and in her home\n\n- A creative way to use kitchen scraps to flavor future dishes\n\n- Italians\u2019 simple approach to food\n\n- A variety of traditional Italian dishes and techniques that you could easily incorporate into your own kitchen\n\nGUEST BIOGRAPHY\n\nVea Carpi is an ex-city gal who fell in love with one man and then fell in love with his mountains: the Italian Alps.\xa0 Vea and her husband and three children live and work on their small mountain farm raising a variety of animals and growing their own food.\xa0 Together they run an intimate farm-to-table restaurant, Mas Del Saro, adjacent to their home.\xa0 Vea is the author of a cookbook in Italian and German entitled La Mia Pasta Madre.\n\nCONNECT\n\nVea Carpi of Mas Del Saro | Website | Instagram\n\nLisa Bass of Farmhouse on Boone | Blog | YouTube | Instagram\n\nGET MORE FROM THIS EPISODE\n\nWatch this episode on YouTube.\n\nMORE RESOURCES\n\nWant to start your own blog? Get my FREE blogging success masterclass.\n\nGet your Berkey Filter with the Simple Farmhouse Life podcast discount.\xa0 Watch my Berkey review video.\n\nDownload my updated ebook with ALL of my sourdough recipes.