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

Simple Farmhouse Life

Lisa Bass

Home & Garden, Leisure

4.9 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 27 January 2022

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

It was so fun to talk to a fellow homesteader and mama who shares my love for cozy winter cooking. My new friend, Vea Carpi, is a farmer, cook, wife, mother, and restaurant owner in the Italian Alps. 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. 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.

In this episode, we cover:

- What lead Vea to start a restaurant out of her home

- What Vea is serving in her farm-to-table restaurant and in her home

- A creative way to use kitchen scraps to flavor future dishes

- Italians’ simple approach to food

- A variety of traditional Italian dishes and techniques that you could easily incorporate into your own kitchen

GUEST BIOGRAPHY

Vea Carpi is an ex-city gal who fell in love with one man and then fell in love with his mountains: the Italian Alps. 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. Together they run an intimate farm-to-table restaurant, Mas Del Saro, adjacent to their home. Vea is the author of a cookbook in Italian and German entitled La Mia Pasta Madre.

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0:00.0	Welcome back to the Simple Farmhouse Life podcast. Today, I'm going to be bringing on vea. Now,
0:06.0	she resides in the Italian Alps. She runs a small farm to table restaurant right on her own farm.
0:13.3	I found out about her on the homestead mama's Instagram account. Find her life fascinating.
0:18.0	I also just wanted to hear about what she's cooking right now in her restaurant,
0:23.2	what seasonal things she's using, what are some Italian dishes that maybe I need to find out about
0:28.1	that she's making over there that I do try my own kitchen. So join us for this discussion as we
0:34.5	bring up all of those things. My name is Lisa, mother of seven and creator of the blog and YouTube
0:40.6	channel Farmhouse on Boone. Join me as I share with you my love for creating a handmade home from
0:46.0	scratch cooking and a little mom and entrepreneur life along the way.
0:49.4	So thanks for joining me even though our time difference makes this somewhat of a challenge. I
1:00.9	really appreciate you jumping on. Can you introduce yourself to everyone? Yeah. So I am vea. I am
1:07.4	Italian and I live in the Italian Alps. So far north and next to the border with Austria,
1:18.2	Dolomites, that area. And I live in a very small farm on a very small farm with my family.
1:26.4	But almost all farms up here are not that big. We're not used to American size farms because
1:34.7	there is not that much land. So they have to be small. And it's me my husband and we have three kids
1:43.3	already three teenagers. And yeah. Oh, and we have a farm to table rest. Oh, in that.
1:54.6	In that. Yeah. So when you say small, I'm curious what that means. Like what size?
2:03.1	So in acres, I think it should be something around three acres, baby.
2:11.2	Okay. I'm not sure because we use hectares. Right. Right. Yeah.
2:14.6	It should be somewhere around there. I got you. Yeah. You can fiddle on that size of property.
2:20.4	I think people do need that encouragement too because I've seen people with full-blown farms
2:25.3	on two acres. It can be done. Yeah. Yes. It absolutely can be done. And it was done in this area.
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