As an siciliano myself Croatians especially dalmatia and istria are so good with italian food and i love their food too the crni risotto with squid is amazing
My father's family is from this region of Croatia and my grandma and aunts made this many times on Sunday's and holidays. I remember helping to make the noodles. I remember that we used wood pencils to roll out the noodles. The brown sauce is also the key to this dish. It's a meat sauce normally from beef or even wild boar meat. Similar to the sauce used with Istrian style Gnocci. It's so good and a very hearty meal. One of my favorite dishes along with Istrian prosciutto, cheese, and wine.
O wow! That sounds delicious!! My great grandparents came from Italy when my grandfather was a young boy, I'm not sure where exactly. I know that my grandpa changed his Italian last name to something that was a little easier to pronounce. I would love to one day visit Italy! It a beautiful country and I enjoy watching pasta grannies every Friday!!!!
My father emigrated from Istria to Canada over 50 years ago. I can remember my Teta’s sitting around a table together making fuši for special occasions. Even as a young child I appreciated how much work each and every piece was. Thank you for making and sharing this video!
I love how the women bond and sing together while making pasta. Food becomes more delicious when it's cooked with your friends and family. I bet their pasta turned out really good! ❤
A few years ago I travelled in Istria, and one of my most magic moments has been eating fuži s tartufima (truffle sauce), it is one of the best thing I have ever eaten in my life. Viva l'Istria !
These girls deserve their own show! Funny, strong and charismatic, they would be amazing at a morning tv show 💜 And Vic, when we think you couldn't surprise us more, you give us this Friday delight, thank you 💜💜💜
The closeness of their friendship and community is so heartwarming. People enjoying company around a plate of delicious food that they worked together to make. Really lovely to see.
Was in Istria the entire last week and was fortunate to taste this delicious and very special dish. I’m pretty sure the one made by the nonnas is more special than the one I had! Loved the video, looking at them singing in peace, brought me peace. ❤️
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They are not Italian. They are Croatian, just not Slavic. The Italian language was forced upon them during the Mussolini days when this part of Croatia was part of the Italian Kingdom, but they are not Italian.
@@flintsky7706 They are from the coastal side of Istria and their language is the dialect istro-veneto, very symilar to that of Venice itself and the land belonged to the Repubblica di San Marco until it's dimise by Bonaparte in 1797. After 1815 Istria belonged to Austria, and they still spoke their dialect and even after 1918 they reteined this italian based dialect. I am from the Interior, from Pisino, Mitterburg, today Pazin, small town always belonged to austrian seigneurs (though from centuries to the Patriarcs): they spoke italian and croat, indifferently and even had two copies of each institution: italian and croat two gymnasiums and lycaeums (for a small town of 5.000 souls), one in italian and the other in croat. After 1918, the italians imposed the language and cancelled all of the croat institutions. This was in the interior. Along the coast they were always italian speakers. They are Istrians, like me, mixed as was normal in the days of the Empire: italian, austrian, croats, slovenian, almost all multilangual and the dialect as common language.
These videos really warm my heart, watching these beautiful ladies passionately showing us their culinary delights. I love how the husand said that this food is made with love. I couldn't have said it better myself. Bravo!
generous amount of Olive oil? I could bathe in it! Yum, yum, yum. And all for the onions, love it! And all the melting in the heat,I wish. Thank you for this. Amazing...I want to be neighbors with these ladies...
Just what you need at harvest & shearing time. Huge plates of tasty food that's quick to eat, fills you up & gives you lots of energy. Miss those harvest meals when we all got together to get the work done. [Don't miss shearing sheep though, not my favourite animals. 😄] Great kitchen again, loving the stove. When we needed a lot of heat very quickly we'd burn seasoned rhododendron logs, burn so well, are the right thickness & don't create much ash. [We used to clear swathes of it when working in the forestry]. Loved the wee diversion to Croatia, nice to change things up occasionally, and those ladies are a real team when it comes to putting out vats of good food. Thank you.
@@aina8318 Haha, if you've every worked with them it's quite easy not to be overly fond of them. Dumb, skittish & do their best to get stuck places or just keel over dead. Now goats I like, the ungulate version of a Jack Russell... feisty, huge personalities, self sufficient & hardy as well as being very funny.
Hi James I had a couple of stints helping a shepherd through lambing as a teenager (I wanted to be a vet) and can concur sheep are hellbent on getting into the wrong kinds of trouble! best wishes, Vicky
Warms my heart, as it does the lucky chap at the end who got to eat it. All wonderful, from the cocky rooster, to finding the eggs, to shared activities and singing.
hi Goran, I have two more from Istria - one more in Croatia, the other in Slovenia - which I'll post over the coming months. I am glad you enjoyed the video! best wishes, Vicky
This video almost brought me to tears. The food was made with such care and joy. You always produce incredible videos. Please keep them coming. Fuži can also be served with žgvacet, a sauce made with chicken also from Istria.
The aprons and tablecloths and floral print skirts and eggs in a basket and cute coffee mugs.... Exactly like my own kitchen here in the Southern United States ❤️ ❤️ I'm pretty sure rural kitchens are a universal familiarity....
It would be interesting if you'd go to the northern part od the country like Zagorje and see how they make local pasta mlinci (big baked thin sheets of pasta which is best served with roasted turkey) I love what you're doing but it would be interesting to see you explore more traditions and cultures around the Europe/Mediteran :) ps thanks for soo many great recepies
hi Kristina, mlinci sounds interesting. We only made a brief visit to Croatia, and it would be fun to return. And yes, it would be very interesting to travel around Europe! best wishes, Vicky
What a cute group of “hotties”! The pasta looked so tender. To be near a wood burning stove in the summer would make me unpleasant…yet they are all giddy! Loved this vid! More from Croatia!
I love your videos! Can I ask if the subtitles could be in black rather than white, as white subtitles are are hard to see x thank you for these fab videos ❤️❤️
hi Vivvy, thank you for feedback. We've been looking at subtitles and have added a shadow to help with legibility. It's a bit of a trial and error thing, as if they are too clear they obscure the pasta making action, and closed captions didn't work (loads of people didn't know to turn them on). But I will ask my editors about black ones. best wishes, Vicky
Proudly my home region 💚 and one of my most favourite dishes but now the vegetarian option with truffles or Istrian wild asparagus since I don't eat meat anymore
It is Italian-speaking because the region is a portion of the Italian peninsula and falls on the souther side of the Alps so totally contained in Italy. You are aliens in our region and we stay ready to beat you off at first possibile war
you should check out fleischnacka - my grandmother and great grandmother made this Alsacienne - Alsace, France, dish differently - like a ravioli with thicker noodle dough that we add Sylvaner or another Alsatian wine - filled with beef mixture(fried) and pot eau feu (beef broth) put in afterward until the dough soaks up the broth. (leaving a bit of broth to top with). The Alsatian recipe that is online and used is made with the dough rolling around meat mixed with egg/onion/parsley/etc. (my mother used to grind the beef by hand) make into a roll - then sliced and fried and broth added.
it's called gulaš, my mom is from these area. although it has the similar name as Ungarian Gulyás, (Goulash = steamed beef) it's different, istrian has no paprika in it
Vickie, I'm sorry for all the vitriol you're getting. You're trying to do a good thing here, and you are. Turns out nothing is immune to keyboard warriors hunting for an excuse. You've done nothing wrong.
hi Alex thank you for your kind words 😊🌺 there was a bit of a prickly response initially wasn't there, but subsequently everyone has been lovely. best wishes, Vicky
@@carloal3498 It didnt belong to Italy before 19th century because Italy didnt exist before 19th century... The territory of Istria and Dalmatia through history was part of different kingdoms and empires, like for example it was part of Kingdom of Croatia, Venice, Croatia that was in personal union with Hungary and so on... Modern Italian nation was invented in 19th century like all other nations where invented so it canont be that Istria belonged to Italy in 14th century or 17th ....
@@josippukanic6366: I know, but the question was: why are there italian speaking communities in Croatia? I just tried to explain the reason in a simply way.
@@carloal3498 If you look at comment you will see that there was no question, he was just surprised that there is Italian speaking regions in Croatia... And the reason is because in Croatia, in some part of Istria there is Italian minority and much more Italians where living in Istria (and Dalmatia) since 19th century and they left cultural and social heritage... But before 19th century Italian nation (and all other nations) didnt exist and so you canot say that Istria and Dalmatia belonged to Italy before 19th century... You can say that before 19th century Istria was part of diffrent emipires and kingdoms, like for example it was part of Venice, which is part of today modern Italy but Venice in medival time and new age time was empire and they spoke Latin not Italian (because Italian nation and Italian language didnt exist)... But Istria and Dalmatia where part of Kindom of Croatia which was not nation but it was the same ethnic group like they are today the same nation...
Well it's not really an italian speaking region of Croatia, Istria was part of Kingdom of Italy till 1945, then most of the italian speaking people of the region migrated when Istria became part of Jugoslavia. Nowadays there are very few italian speaking people in Istria and Slovenia, about 7%.
As an siciliano myself Croatians especially dalmatia and istria are so good with italian food and i love their food too the crni risotto with squid is amazing
My father's family is from this region of Croatia and my grandma and aunts made this many times on Sunday's and holidays. I remember helping to make the noodles. I remember that we used wood pencils to roll out the noodles. The brown sauce is also the key to this dish. It's a meat sauce normally from beef or even wild boar meat. Similar to the sauce used with Istrian style Gnocci. It's so good and a very hearty meal. One of my favorite dishes along with Istrian prosciutto, cheese, and wine.
Anche mi son istrian, de Pisin.
hi David, thank you for sharing your memories; wild boar sounds a good winter variation. 😊🌺 best wishes, Vicky
Beautiful memories
O wow! That sounds delicious!! My great grandparents came from Italy when my grandfather was a young boy, I'm not sure where exactly. I know that my grandpa changed his Italian last name to something that was a little easier to pronounce. I would love to one day visit Italy! It a beautiful country and I enjoy watching pasta grannies every Friday!!!!
My father emigrated from Istria to Canada over 50 years ago. I can remember my Teta’s sitting around a table together making fuši for special occasions. Even as a young child I appreciated how much work each and every piece was. Thank you for making and sharing this video!
I'm glad it inspired good memories for you 😊🌺 best wishes, Vicky
I like how you call Istrian pasta "fuši". We are calling it "fuži". I guess it depends of part if Istra how it is called
I love how the women bond and sing together while making pasta. Food becomes more delicious when it's cooked with your friends and family. I bet their pasta turned out really good! ❤
Another winner! These ladies don’t mess around. Nothing is wasted - not even olive tree prunings which fire the stove. These videos are a gem.
Finally the amazing pasta grannies in my home country!! 😄😍
A few years ago I travelled in Istria, and one of my most magic moments has been eating fuži s tartufima (truffle sauce), it is one of the best thing I have ever eaten in my life. Viva l'Istria !
@@panuntukan glad you enjoyed Croatian cuisine 🇭🇷🫒
These girls deserve their own show! Funny, strong and charismatic, they would be amazing at a morning tv show 💜
And Vic, when we think you couldn't surprise us more, you give us this Friday delight, thank you 💜💜💜
The closeness of their friendship and community is so heartwarming. People enjoying company around a plate of delicious food that they worked together to make. Really lovely to see.
Bravissime! Che bel sentirve ciacolar in dialetto!
Was in Istria the entire last week and was fortunate to taste this delicious and very special dish. I’m pretty sure the one made by the nonnas is more special than the one I had! Loved the video, looking at them singing in peace, brought me peace. ❤️
The ladies singing stirs one's heart. Bravo!
I love this! Thank you for showcasing a hidden gem of Croatia, with a wonderful heart and excellent cuisine.
Finally someone else who cooks with as much olive oil as I do! LOL!
Fantastic sense of history and community.
Thanks Vicky!💙🌹
Wow this one was extra good! Love everyone working and singing together-wonderful!!!
A kitchen Overflowing with life experience and culinary excellence.
Thankfully cultural gems like all of our Pasta Grannies will not go un-acknowledge and appreciated; thanks to this Channel!
Gratzi🙏🏾❤️❤️❤️🖤
Your channel helped me so much to understand better the soul of Italian food. Thank you.
They are not Italian. They are Croatian, just not Slavic.
The Italian language was forced upon them during the Mussolini days when this part of Croatia was part of the Italian Kingdom, but they are not Italian.
@@flintsky7706 They are from the coastal side of Istria and their language is the dialect istro-veneto, very symilar to that of Venice itself and the land belonged to the Repubblica di San Marco until it's dimise by Bonaparte in 1797. After 1815 Istria belonged to Austria, and they still spoke their dialect and even after 1918 they reteined this italian based dialect. I am from the Interior, from Pisino, Mitterburg, today Pazin, small town always belonged to austrian seigneurs (though from centuries to the Patriarcs): they spoke italian and croat, indifferently and even had two copies of each institution: italian and croat two gymnasiums and lycaeums (for a small town of 5.000 souls), one in italian and the other in croat. After 1918, the italians imposed the language and cancelled all of the croat institutions. This was in the interior. Along the coast they were always italian speakers. They are Istrians, like me, mixed as was normal in the days of the Empire: italian, austrian, croats, slovenian, almost all multilangual and the dialect as common language.
@@flintsky7706 Learn some history please. Istria was an Italian (more precisely Venetian) Slavic peninsula, Italians live there since the Roman times.
Loved traveling to Croatia and meeting these great grannies in your video today!! Thank you, it was wonderful.
These videos really warm my heart, watching these beautiful ladies passionately showing us their culinary delights. I love how the husand said that this food is made with love. I couldn't have said it better myself. Bravo!
I’m from Croatia and love going to Istra!
Istria è Italia
@@davidetoffoletto9981 I’m afraid it isn’t. 🫤
@@iva6728 It will return
@@davidetoffoletto9981 no it won't it's our home 🫒🇭🇷🌴
@@Kokolo-ze2cp no impossible, Istria already belongs to the Italian Peninsula like Corsica or Ticino
generous amount of Olive oil? I could bathe in it! Yum, yum, yum. And all for the onions, love it! And all the melting in the heat,I wish. Thank you for this. Amazing...I want to be neighbors with these ladies...
Just what you need at harvest & shearing time. Huge plates of tasty food that's quick to eat, fills you up & gives you lots of energy. Miss those harvest meals when we all got together to get the work done. [Don't miss shearing sheep though, not my favourite animals. 😄]
Great kitchen again, loving the stove. When we needed a lot of heat very quickly we'd burn seasoned rhododendron logs, burn so well, are the right thickness & don't create much ash. [We used to clear swathes of it when working in the forestry].
Loved the wee diversion to Croatia, nice to change things up occasionally, and those ladies are a real team when it comes to putting out vats of good food.
Thank you.
How can you not love sheep, they`re lovely!
@@aina8318 Haha, if you've every worked with them it's quite easy not to be overly fond of them. Dumb, skittish & do their best to get stuck places or just keel over dead.
Now goats I like, the ungulate version of a Jack Russell... feisty, huge personalities, self sufficient & hardy as well as being very funny.
Hi James I had a couple of stints helping a shepherd through lambing as a teenager (I wanted to be a vet) and can concur sheep are hellbent on getting into the wrong kinds of trouble! best wishes, Vicky
yes what happened to harvest suppers.. and I didn't know that about rhododendron logs. best wishes, Vicky
Warms my heart, as it does the lucky chap at the end who got to eat it. All wonderful, from the cocky rooster, to finding the eggs, to shared activities and singing.
I love this video, these amazing women, their songs and their art -- because this pasta is art! Thank you for sharing with us 💙
What a beautiful group of women.
The singing was sweet as.
Delicious meal . Thanks again x
Love my Croatian roots! Thanks for another delicious recipe.❤️
Food that feeds the soul. This is a wonderful channel.
I love this channel.
Hearing the women singing was touching.
Thank you! 😊💕
As Always enjoyed every frame of the video, thank you so much for representing my country and people living in it. 💕
Secretly hope for more 🤩
hi Goran, I have two more from Istria - one more in Croatia, the other in Slovenia - which I'll post over the coming months. I am glad you enjoyed the video! best wishes, Vicky
When ever there is music and food there is love 👌🏻💖 always brings me to tears 🥲
This video almost brought me to tears. The food was made with such care and joy. You always produce incredible videos. Please keep them coming. Fuži can also be served with žgvacet, a sauce made with chicken also from Istria.
we filmed the chicken version and it will be posted in the next few months. best wishes Vicky
They speak their local dialect. This is my homeland.
Looks like a wonderful day and delicious meal!!
Очаровательные хозяюшки! Хотела бы я оказаться в их компании!
To the lady who.does the voice over. You look lovely with your haircut and that blue top. Bellisimo x
Thank you! 😊🌺 best wishes, Vicky
I think the love to provide excellent food for your family and friends outweighs borders. This looks so delicious.
The aprons and tablecloths and floral print skirts and eggs in a basket and cute coffee mugs.... Exactly like my own kitchen here in the Southern United States ❤️ ❤️ I'm pretty sure rural kitchens are a universal familiarity....
Istrian Malvasia is best wine ever. Greetings from Serbia
I loved seeing how the dough was cut using the rolling pin and listening to the ladies sing while working. I have to figure out what to roll them on.
they're so cute, all laughing and happy-sweet
The prefect antidote to a difficult Friday.
Ikr!?
Such a wonderful, joy filled video!!! Thank you, Vicky!!!!
Another reason to look forward to Friday's, mille grazie.
It’s good to see you more in this video. The interaction shows a pleasant personal touch.
What a wonderful group of ladies! Seems like it would be a full days job to make this dish but it looks delicious!
These women are so lovely! Thank you so much for making these videos!
Wonderful video! Enjoyed it so much!
Absolutely charming!
I Love their energy not to mention their aprons!!!
She may be a pasta granny but she’s got style! I see those moschino glasses!
brave tutte, complimenti ancora bellissimo video
Bellissimo video.
Pieno di tradizione
Buona cucina e storia
Della bella Italia fatta di gente semplice.
Brave
This is not Italy though
@@Kokolo-ze2cpistria e italia come e croazia.. zivjeli prijatelju!
It would be interesting if you'd go to the northern part od the country like Zagorje and see how they make local pasta mlinci (big baked thin sheets of pasta which is best served with roasted turkey) I love what you're doing but it would be interesting to see you explore more traditions and cultures around the Europe/Mediteran :)
ps thanks for soo many great recepies
hi Kristina, mlinci sounds interesting. We only made a brief visit to Croatia, and it would be fun to return. And yes, it would be very interesting to travel around Europe! best wishes, Vicky
loved this!
Lively, especially the singing!
That is my amazing Zia Barbara 💜 tanti auguri!
it was a great pleasure meeting Barbara and her friends! 😊🌺 best wishes, Vicky
Voi giovani parlate ancora Italiano in Istria oppure gli Slavi vi stanno facendo sparire?
Oh I love this one!
Out in the small farm town in the USA, you'd get a lot of beef cubes and a side of pasta!
What a cute group of “hotties”! The pasta looked so tender. To be near a wood burning stove in the summer would make me unpleasant…yet they are all giddy! Loved this vid! More from Croatia!
Fantastiche! ❤️❤️❤️
Top!!! Thanks!
I love your videos! Can I ask if the subtitles could be in black rather than white, as white subtitles are are hard to see x thank you for these fab videos ❤️❤️
hi Vivvy, thank you for feedback. We've been looking at subtitles and have added a shadow to help with legibility. It's a bit of a trial and error thing, as if they are too clear they obscure the pasta making action, and closed captions didn't work (loads of people didn't know to turn them on). But I will ask my editors about black ones. best wishes, Vicky
@@pastagrannies that’s so kind of you Vicky! Have a great week and again, big thanks for your brilliant content 👍🏻😘
Proudly my home region 💚 and one of my most favourite dishes but now the vegetarian option with truffles or Istrian wild asparagus since I don't eat meat anymore
Istria is Croatian speaking (87,2%) region of Croatia. As there is Italian minority, it is also Italian speaking.
It is Italian-speaking because the region is a portion of the Italian peninsula and falls on the souther side of the Alps so totally contained in Italy. You are aliens in our region and we stay ready to beat you off at first possibile war
you should check out fleischnacka - my grandmother and great grandmother made this Alsacienne - Alsace, France, dish differently - like a ravioli with thicker noodle dough that we add Sylvaner or another Alsatian wine - filled with beef mixture(fried) and pot eau feu (beef broth) put in afterward until the dough soaks up the broth. (leaving a bit of broth to top with). The Alsatian recipe that is online and used is made with the dough rolling around meat mixed with egg/onion/parsley/etc. (my mother used to grind the beef by hand) make into a roll - then sliced and fried and broth added.
hi Patricia, fleischnacka sounds delicious, thank you for alerting me to it. 😊🌺 best wishes, Vicky
Thats so fine........tasty-hmmmm👼🥰🤗
I love my home country Croatia 🫒🇭🇷🌴
It's a Genovese sauce, isn't it? I wonder if there is a connection.
Мясо отличное! !!
The beef stew is called "golaž" and is also eaten with either fresh bread or polenta
Are you saying it’s goulash? What language is your word from please?
it's called gulaš, my mom is from these area. although it has the similar name as Ungarian Gulyás, (Goulash = steamed beef) it's different, istrian has no paprika in it
Absolutely right, this is gulaš with pasta, but without paprika, we eat it all over the Balkans. It's delicious. 🤗
It is also called sugo, an Italian dish from the region.
@@lucylou5766 Golaž is the Slovenian name and like with American Chilies, everyone has their own recipe. I personally do use paprika powder in mine.
Absolutely loving the style if cooking here. Lots of oil and loads of good fat.
Vickie, I'm sorry for all the vitriol you're getting. You're trying to do a good thing here, and you are. Turns out nothing is immune to keyboard warriors hunting for an excuse. You've done nothing wrong.
hi Alex thank you for your kind words 😊🌺 there was a bit of a prickly response initially wasn't there, but subsequently everyone has been lovely. best wishes, Vicky
Sicuramente buonissima,ma quanto olioooo🙆
Come, come, come, little brownhaired girl, come in the field and collect the hay: we will enjoy the pure air and the freedom............ (the song)
Wow, didn’t know that there is an Italian speaking region in Croatia
Istria and Dalmatia (both parts of the actual Croatia) belonged to Italy for eves, until the end of the 2nd world war.
@@carloal3498 It didnt belong to Italy before 19th century because Italy didnt exist before 19th century... The territory of Istria and Dalmatia through history was part of different kingdoms and empires, like for example it was part of Kingdom of Croatia, Venice, Croatia that was in personal union with Hungary and so on... Modern Italian nation was invented in 19th century like all other nations where invented so it canont be that Istria belonged to Italy in 14th century or 17th ....
@@josippukanic6366: I know, but the question was: why are there italian speaking communities in Croatia? I just tried to
explain the reason in a simply way.
Because republic of Venice
@@carloal3498 If you look at comment you will see that there was no question, he was just surprised that there is Italian speaking regions in Croatia... And the reason is because in Croatia, in some part of Istria there is Italian minority and much more Italians where living in Istria (and Dalmatia) since 19th century and they left cultural and social heritage... But before 19th century Italian nation (and all other nations) didnt exist and so you canot say that Istria and Dalmatia belonged to Italy before 19th century... You can say that before 19th century Istria was part of diffrent emipires and kingdoms, like for example it was part of Venice, which is part of today modern Italy but Venice in medival time and new age time was empire and they spoke Latin not Italian (because Italian nation and Italian language didnt exist)... But Istria and Dalmatia where part of Kindom of Croatia which was not nation but it was the same ethnic group like they are today the same nation...
So many nonna in one video
Well it's not really an italian speaking region of Croatia, Istria was part of Kingdom of Italy till 1945, then most of the italian speaking people of the region migrated when Istria became part of Jugoslavia. Nowadays there are very few italian speaking people in Istria and Slovenia, about 7%.
However, with the respect for past times, entire region of Istria is officially bilingual, Italian and Croatian.
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Jop in crosia pizza and pata
Only one mistake, this pasta is from Istria, not Croatia...
Ne seri kvake
Ive what are you talking about?😂😂
Salt in the pasta, that's different. I would have liked if they spoke Istriano
what's istriano?
@@ausiedeli A dialect spoken there that has pretty much died out
Truffle fuži
FIRST
Il marito penso parli usualmente in croato.
In Polesan forse
Certo non intende la seconda guerra mondiale della quale io sono vittima e profugo: quella del 91?
Uh i
Praticamente penne lisce.
Its called fuži, not fusi
fuži in croatian, fusi in italian
irredentismo intensifies
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