Hi everyone, I have the good fortune to know Isola personally and she is really an amazing person with a great desire to live and do!😊 Just to be fair, I would like to say that her husband worked many years in a marble quarry and when he wasn't working he was growing a vegetable garden and looking after animals, I simply think that in the video Isola was very focused on what she was doing and less on answering questions! At 97 years old I think this is normal! Anyway a greeting and a big hug to Grandma Isola, an example of health and wellness for all of us 😘 keep it up!
How sweet of you Angelo_995. I am certain the extra people in the kitchen make it hard to concentrate on the food. I know I would miss an ingredient, at the least!
Lovely Isolina has me laughing out loud. When my grandmother reached 90, she only remembered my grandfather as part of all the housework she used to do.
Isolina, you are simply a living legend in the kitchen! 👑🍲 How can a minestrone soup with pesto be so comforting and magical at the same time? It's like a warm hug in recipe form! 🫶✨ 97 years of pure talent and love for food - that's pure inspiration! Thank you for sharing this culinary gem, Isolina! What an honor to learn from you! 😍👏
Can u imagine only having to buy the amount of squash or celery, etc u need?!? What a wonderful way to cut down on food waste I hope. I know that would have helped me quite a few times ❤❤❤
Oh my goodness I only wish. You know here in America if people were allowed to have grocery stores like they used to when I was between 4:00 and 8 years old - you could go in and do that. And it was better food. And meat especially and milk too. Oh thank you Lord for what we have but I hope you bring back to our country's more of what we've lost.
TBH, this is not the case everywhere, and certainly not in supermarkets that have no time to weigh your groceries. But mind that in Italy the Ligurians are famous - as the Scots in Britain, I guess - for, let's say, how reluctant they are to spend their money. We make jokes about them, like not buying fridges because they're not sure the light turns off when you close the door.
Well this was just lovely. This woman is still beautiful. Everybody knows her and cares about her. And here she is making some wonderful soup, and she's mostly incredibly healthy! God bless her sweetheart and he has given her a very long life. I'm sure the soup is very delicious and I think I'll make some. If God lets me live that long and I can still make my own soup be the happiest woman on the planet. ❤❤❤ I love pasta grannies ❤ i get so much enjoyment from every single episode truly.
God bless Isolina 3 more years she will be 100 years old. Clues to living that long espresso in the morning, a good minestrone with a glass of red wine, time spent with family and friends and living close to the sea. She is blessed indeed, also no matter if doing a minestrone or sugo, the trick adding a good fresh pesto in the mix. Thanks to all to reporting these gems of Nonnas. Arrivederci🙏🙏🙏💖🌺😋🥰🇮🇹
She makes me fall in love over again with womanhood. She and other grannies make my heart so full. It's true sisterhood. With these nonne, I'm not afraid of ageing ! They're so lovely !!
The first woman a little boy learns to love, adore and worship is his mother, the second one is his grandmother. My story is very much like that of other middle-aged men in the industrialised world. Growing up, my mom and her two sisters were bold, hard working women of a new generation. But whenever we all got together, they anew became their mother's three little kitchen girls. My grandmother was very much of an authority without having to act as such. Already as a child, I understood that what and how a family eat together is the foundation for its very existence. My mother chose an academic career, and didn't always have the time to cook the traditional meals she daily helped prepare before leaving her parental home. But she never forgot how to. Such intrinsic knowledge, deep inside of us, form unity and shape our identity. 25 years ago, my grandmother passed away. The heritage she and my grandfather handed down to their offspring will never leave us. Sometimes, I ask my mother about everyday meals she helped my grandmother prepare as a teenager. Often, something in particular springs to mind, but initially she doesn't recall exactly how a specific dish was made. However, after a few minutes she always remembers it all and we go to work together! My grandmother never wrote a cookbook and my mother probably never will. But I will do so and this channel provides great inspiration!
Isolina is amazing....97!!! Love how she cleans the veggies in midair...no fear! The minestrone looked absolutely delicious and finished just right for it's 97 year-old cook! What a delightful video, Vicky! TFS, Sharon 🥰
Looks delicious! I bought ingredients to make soup today. Wish I 'd watched this first. Could have used the inspiration. Thanks Vicky & Pasta Grannies!!❤❤❤
I love Isolina! That soup! As a big fan of all kinds of soups, this gorgeous lady has a great one. Still shopping in her local deli; still walking up three flights of steps; the pesto to the minestrone is a touch I am not familiar with. A nice red and Bene for sure! Thanks for another great episode.
Isolde seems like such a lovely lady, and I loved that grocery store, just being able to buy exactly what you need for a recipe is a great way to avoid food waste.
Minestrone with pesto and soupe au pistou are two of my favourite dishes, especially during autumn. I love both sauces, although I admit that I take a light hand with pine nuts when making pesto. Thanks for sharing your time with Isolina with us!
Pine nuts are there because they were foraged - so you could also use walnuts, which we've filmed people use instead (in the mountains) several times. 😊🌺 best wishes, Vicky
One of my dreams is to live a very long life with independence and health. My parents are in their late 80s and with exception of their need for someone to help them with their laptops sometimes, they live a completely independent life. I feel like I have something to look forward to....😂
Great video Vicky! When my parents pass ( I take care of and feed them), I need to move to Italy and help a nonna! I would just hope they understand I'm a vegetarian...but I did learn how to cook meat well for my parents, I just won't eat it, LOL! Buon Appetito a tutti!
I wanted to ask Vicky: in your experience is it common to find elderly women ( even younger) in such good health and so active in small villages in Italy compared to other cities such as Milan, Rome, Naples, Palermo...?
We haven't filmed that many women in the big cities. In our experience it's difficult to find them, not because they're not there but because smaller communities mean elderly folk are more visible. I therefore hesitate to make comparisons! What I can say after 10 years of filming the healthy elderly is their lives have been frugal and much more inconvenient. They have to climb the stairs, walk to work, grow their own vegetables. Also they are very connected in their communities. I suspect most of those who live to advanced old age in the city, live with their family and still go 'home' to the countryside. I'm thinking of 101 year old Marietta from Rome/Calabria. 😁best wishes, Vicky
I know the song Isolina was singing! This is a very good version from a choir I 've been lucky to meet- the lyrics are about a young woman that takes the vows, but then regrets it, and accuses her parents, her sister, the convent architect for her disappointment ua-cam.com/video/Btz9WXJSn0g/v-deo.html
Hi everyone, I have the good fortune to know Isola personally and she is really an amazing person with a great desire to live and do!😊
Just to be fair, I would like to say that her husband worked many years in a marble quarry and when he wasn't working he was growing a vegetable garden and looking after animals, I simply think that in the video Isola was very focused on what she was doing and less on answering questions! At 97 years old I think this is normal!
Anyway a greeting and a big hug to Grandma Isola, an example of health and wellness for all of us 😘 keep it up!
How sweet of you Angelo_995. I am certain the extra people in the kitchen make it hard to concentrate on the food. I know I would miss an ingredient, at the least!
@@Angelo_995 they're amazing
Thank you Angelo for leaving this comment x
@Angelo_995 she was so cute. 🥰
Exemplo de vida saudável. Brasil
Lovely Isolina has me laughing out loud. When my grandmother reached 90, she only remembered my grandfather as part of all the housework she used to do.
Aww
Grazie Isolina ❤
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Isolina, you are simply a living legend in the kitchen! 👑🍲 How can a minestrone soup with pesto be so comforting and magical at the same time? It's like a warm hug in recipe form! 🫶✨ 97 years of pure talent and love for food - that's pure inspiration! Thank you for sharing this culinary gem, Isolina! What an honor to learn from you! 😍👏
Can u imagine only having to buy the amount of squash or celery, etc u need?!? What a wonderful way to cut down on food waste I hope. I know that would have helped me quite a few times ❤❤❤
I was thinking, we are doing grocery stores in the US all WRONG!
Oh my goodness I only wish.
You know here in America if people were allowed to have grocery stores like they used to when I was between 4:00 and 8 years old - you could go in and do that. And it was better food.
And meat especially and milk too.
Oh thank you Lord for what we have but I hope you bring back to our country's more of what we've lost.
Perks of not living in The US. 😅
Yes ❤
TBH, this is not the case everywhere, and certainly not in supermarkets that have no time to weigh your groceries. But mind that in Italy the Ligurians are famous - as the Scots in Britain, I guess - for, let's say, how reluctant they are to spend their money. We make jokes about them, like not buying fridges because they're not sure the light turns off when you close the door.
Well this was just lovely.
This woman is still beautiful.
Everybody knows her and cares about her. And here she is making some wonderful soup, and she's mostly incredibly healthy!
God bless her sweetheart and he has given her a very long life.
I'm sure the soup is very delicious and I think I'll make some. If God lets me live that long and I can still make my own soup be the happiest woman on the planet.
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I love pasta grannies ❤ i get so much enjoyment from every single episode truly.
That soup looks amazing. I have never thought to put pesto in minestrone.
It's great!
God bless Isolina 3 more years she will be 100 years old. Clues to living that long espresso in the morning, a good minestrone with a glass of red wine, time spent with family and friends and living close to the sea. She is blessed indeed, also no matter if doing a minestrone or sugo, the trick adding a good fresh pesto in the mix. Thanks to all to reporting these gems of Nonnas. Arrivederci🙏🙏🙏💖🌺😋🥰🇮🇹
Thank you Joanne, let us know if you'll be adding pesto in your minestrone :)
@pastagrannies I always do brings all the flavors and the Basil always adds more. Cheers🥰😋😋😋
Amazing! 97 and going strong.
She is!
She makes me fall in love over again with womanhood. She and other grannies make my heart so full. It's true sisterhood. With these nonne, I'm not afraid of ageing ! They're so lovely !!
I so agree! We women are extraordinary.
The first woman a little boy learns to love, adore and worship is his mother, the second one is his grandmother.
My story is very much like that of other middle-aged men in the industrialised world.
Growing up, my mom and her two sisters were bold, hard working women of a new generation. But whenever we all got together, they anew became their mother's three little kitchen girls. My grandmother was very much of an authority without having to act as such.
Already as a child, I understood that what and how a family eat together is the foundation for its very existence. My mother chose an academic career, and didn't always have the time to cook the traditional meals she daily helped prepare before leaving her parental home. But she never forgot how to. Such intrinsic knowledge, deep inside of us, form unity and shape our identity.
25 years ago, my grandmother passed away. The heritage she and my grandfather handed down to their offspring will never leave us. Sometimes, I ask my mother about everyday meals she helped my grandmother prepare as a teenager. Often, something in particular springs to mind, but initially she doesn't recall exactly how a specific dish was made. However, after a few minutes she always remembers it all and we go to work together!
My grandmother never wrote a cookbook and my mother probably never will. But I will do so and this channel provides great inspiration!
Amen
Delicious!! Thank you Isolina and the pasta grannies gang for sharing!!
Isolina is amazing....97!!! Love how she cleans the veggies in midair...no fear! The minestrone looked absolutely delicious and finished just right for it's 97 year-old cook! What a delightful video, Vicky! TFS, Sharon 🥰
She still has so much strength in her hands and she climbed those stairs,!!
What a lovely lady.
Looks delicious! I bought ingredients to make soup today. Wish I 'd watched this first. Could have used the inspiration. Thanks Vicky & Pasta Grannies!!❤❤❤
Thank you Marty, let us know if you'll be adding some pesto next time :)
@pastagrannies I love pesto in soup. In the winter I make it with flat leaf parsley and dried basil.
Questa signora è un tesoro ed il suo minestrone sembra davvero buonissimo! ❤❤❤❤❤
I love Isolina! That soup! As a big fan of all kinds of soups, this gorgeous lady has a great one. Still shopping in her local deli; still walking up three flights of steps; the pesto to the minestrone is a touch I am not familiar with. A nice red and Bene for sure! Thanks for another great episode.
Thank you, Scott x
Isolde seems like such a lovely lady, and I loved that grocery store, just being able to buy exactly what you need for a recipe is a great way to avoid food waste.
hi Simon - very true! And the bakery was heaven! 😊🌺 best wishes, Vicky
Aaahh! Superb! 🎉
Minestrone with pesto and soupe au pistou are two of my favourite dishes, especially during autumn. I love both sauces, although I admit that I take a light hand with pine nuts when making pesto. Thanks for sharing your time with Isolina with us!
Pine nuts are there because they were foraged - so you could also use walnuts, which we've filmed people use instead (in the mountains) several times. 😊🌺 best wishes, Vicky
Amazing Isolina, I was lost at the sight of the three doors of stairs! You are truly the queen of minestrone Thank you. Ramon x
hi Ramon, Isolina is a great example of: keep exercising to stay healthy! 😊🌺 best wishes, Vicky
Thanks for the third episode with isolina💜💜💜💜
Minestrone with pesto 😍🤎 love it!
Glad you did! :)
Thank you Isolina. I am going to make this and think of you.
That's very sweet x let us know how it turns out!
Just splendid!! 😍
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One of my dreams is to live a very long life with independence and health. My parents are in their late 80s and with exception of their need for someone to help them with their laptops sometimes, they live a completely independent life. I feel like I have something to look forward to....😂
My Gran used that same type of knife for everything in the kitchen!
wow amazing, maybe i try it in my chanell because it is very good the recipe🧑🏻🍳💪🏻
Isolina inspired us and yesterday we made some minestone with pesto! It was glorious, we'll definitely add pesto to our future minestroni.
Hi Valentina, that's great - how did it turn out?
Isolina is a boss! Says so on her apron.
Nice soup
Beautiful 😊
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Adding pesto...hm, that would work, would make minestrone so tasty!!!!!!!!
Yes, give it a go and let us know!
tanto roba, ora voglio provare a farle anch’io ste ricette cosi sul mio canale🧑🏻🍳
Great video Vicky! When my parents pass ( I take care of and feed them), I need to move to Italy and help a nonna! I would just hope they understand I'm a vegetarian...but I did learn how to cook meat well for my parents, I just won't eat it, LOL! Buon Appetito a tutti!
hi Jesse, you're a caring daughter! 😊🌺 best wishes, Vicky
Awsome ❤
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I was surprised when the lady said "tomate" instead of "pomodoro" at 1:09 - any reason why? Is this a local / regional way of saying tomato?
Yes it is
It’s how they say it in their local dialect.
Hi, that's how she says it in her local dialect :)
Can we just give these nonnas. A big hug and kisses 😘 love them ❤ ⭐️🙏🥰⭐️🥰❤️😇🫶🫶. Wow gotta love the prices. In Canada that easily would be a lot more😮
Sa cantare anche!
Fabulous recipe. Nice 'n' slow cooking. Can anyone tell me the name of the song she sings?
Hi! It should be La monachella - I girasoli!
How are the ingredients for her 'minestrone'? Zucca, onion, beans, potatoes...and? This recipe is perfect for this season
Hi! It's all written in the description of this video
@@pastagranniesshe only use a small spoonful of oil for pesto...😯 Good!
A delicious soup! Someone please tell me what the nunnery-cursing song is, though, I badly need to know.
Hi! It should be La monachella - I girasoli!
@@pastagrannies Thank you!! I will look that up at once...
TOPP 😘😘👍👍👍👍👍👍
I wanted to ask Vicky: in your experience is it common to find elderly women ( even younger) in such good health and so active in small villages in Italy compared to other cities such as Milan, Rome, Naples, Palermo...?
We haven't filmed that many women in the big cities. In our experience it's difficult to find them, not because they're not there but because smaller communities mean elderly folk are more visible. I therefore hesitate to make comparisons! What I can say after 10 years of filming the healthy elderly is their lives have been frugal and much more inconvenient. They have to climb the stairs, walk to work, grow their own vegetables. Also they are very connected in their communities. I suspect most of those who live to advanced old age in the city, live with their family and still go 'home' to the countryside. I'm thinking of 101 year old Marietta from Rome/Calabria. 😁best wishes, Vicky
I have the exact same pot as Isolina😅😅. We show our age.😂
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Is she 97 years old?😮
98 in March! best wishes, Vicky
I know the song Isolina was singing! This is a very good version from a choir I 've been lucky to meet- the lyrics are about a young woman that takes the vows, but then regrets it, and accuses her parents, her sister, the convent architect for her disappointment ua-cam.com/video/Btz9WXJSn0g/v-deo.html
thanks for finding it 😁