coast is all about spectacular scenery and a bounty of incredible food i'm carol yelverton welcome to hungry for travel t v we're making my family recipe for linguini in clam sauce and a perfect salad for the side and a muffin coast just south of naples has so much charm that you can really get swept away in its beauty what a pretty short film by philip user i am so in love with southern italian cooking it's fresh and light with beautiful pizzas pasta result and an abundance of fish and seafood my italian american grandmother was a powerful force and we grew up cooking and eating just the best homemade italian dishes my mother made this one her own it's called linguini cone love and i think we named clam sauce so i made a few out adaptations of my own because i know she wouldn't mind so i'm going to run you through this really fast but i have four shallots and four close of garlic that i have sauteed together in a very good quality italian olive oil and then what i'm going to do is add a good amount of talent parsley i've got a little bit of red pepper you don't need that much of it i'm going to put in a just a touch of sea salt has got some more salty stuff coming later i've got some black pepper oregano as about a teaspoon of oregon it can use a good amount of that fresh time which mates makes a huge difference much better than the dried stuff and i've also been putting a bally fan because that adds just a really lovely flavor again just take it out when you're done and anchovies those tiny little fish are everywhere along the i'm all ficos they're so solti and sharp a little bit goes a long way and what i'm doing now is just using some an paste that's going to go in and what that does is it just pops out the sweetness of the clams it's just it's really really good so i'm also going to put in some clam broth and the idea behind this is we're not cooking the clams quite yet what we want to do is just get a good broth because we're going to be baking the pasta together so now this will be all cooked up i have got pasta that is half cooked and drained so it's cooked about six or seven minutes and this goes in and the idea here is again that it's going to bake together now we all love fresh pasta but it's really not the way to go here dr pasta makes a big difference because it's going to be absorbing a ton of the sauce here italian pasta is made with them alina flour so it really makes a difference and how your food is going to taste we buy italian olive oil for its flavor it's really the same kind of thing here ok so the pasta and sauce are going to go for about four fifty for ten minutes and i wrap this really tight and for all i really remember my mother doing that has to be tightened foil so nice steam bath so that's going to cook ten minutes in total but now let's get to the clams i have soaked two pounds of small clams and sea salt you can use little necks or in elec lambs for about a half hour and then i rinse them that washes the sand out of them now they're ready for action so i do i just take them thank you thank you just a little bit of water and then i'm just going to cover them and i'm going to let them go for five minutes five minutes only until they are just just tender not overcooked just juicy and really all ready for the pasta so i'm going to show you quickly how this comes together i take the clams out i put that that clam broth in and i also add a little parmesan cheese and i've got some more parsley here and then the juice of a lemon goes and the fresh lemon juice on tops boy that really really makes a difference so let me show you the finish shot right now because i really love this picture too had so much fun taking this i've with so many fruits and vegetables growing along the i'm off the coast line i've got a salad that i think goes a beautifully with our pasta you know it's all about seeing what's fresh and using it in lovely and delicious ways so i've pre sliced  strong character to it but it's not bitter it's just a really interesting taste and flavor very very italian and now i'm just putting some beautiful spinach on the sides so this really is kind of composed salad nice fresh baby spanish leaves that go on the side this is super simple but this is how it's how it works there and then some beautiful asparagus is going to go right in the middle something that's i mean it's that simple a salad it's that beautiful now i want to tell you grad you are going to use something that is really going to be simple really going to work we want to dress it we don't want to overpower this kind of a salad with too heavy a dressing it's all about balance with the big flavors of is really a family heirloom and she always had her own going to grant that she would make and that she kept in the cupboard so again i've got my own i appreciate hers and all i do for this is i use a cup of olive oil to a third cup of white ball samik and i'm not go overwhelm this this is really just about a little little drizzle on top so that's all that's going to happen here so let me show you the finished product because it's going to be all dressed up and looking to vine three beds vegetables with distinct tastes they just merge together coast a young voyager shot some very cool footage to give you a view from above so pretty and then there are desserts you'll find amazing pastries everywhere you look as well as locally grown foods that grace dinner tables with nuts and little clement high and grapes some cookies and dried fruits this is what is just very much part of the life there everyone is around the table eating talking just being together it's all about family and community and a sense of place so go eat and enjoy as any attacking mama would tell you i'm