{"id":203,"date":"2008-05-24T23:01:30","date_gmt":"2008-05-24T23:01:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/marialiberati.com\/blog2\/?p=203"},"modified":"2008-05-24T23:01:30","modified_gmt":"2008-05-24T23:01:30","slug":"zucchini-and-goat-cheese-frittata-and-the-big-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marialiberati.com\/freshsite\/2008\/05\/24\/zucchini-and-goat-cheese-frittata-and-the-big-night\/","title":{"rendered":"Zucchini and Goat Cheese Frittata and  The Big Night"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Editor: Joseph Mc Veigh\u00a0<br \/>\ncopyright, 2008, Maria Liberati,The Basic Art of Italian Cooking by Maria Liberati tm<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"3I9wSz2xpC\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/marialiberati.com\/\">Home1<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"&#8220;Home1&#8221; &#8212; The Basic Art of Italian Cooking\" src=\"https:\/\/marialiberati.com\/embed\/#?secret=l8etv5MKId#?secret=3I9wSz2xpC\" data-secret=\"3I9wSz2xpC\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><br \/>\nHope you are all enjoying your Memorial Day celebrations for those in the US. And if you are in another part of this great big ,wonderful world &#8211; I hope you are having a great weekend. Here is a great recipe from one of our favorite movies here at The Basic Art of Italian Cooking by Maria Liberati tm and a great recipe to enjoy this weekend.<br \/>\nFamous Recipes is a new series from- The Basic Art of Italian Cooking by Maria Liberati tm- highlighting a noted food from literature or movies, for being a celebrity favorite, from some famous town or restaurant.\u00a0 The first recipe is, appropriately, for a breakfast item &#8211; frittata.\u00a0<br \/>\n<em>Big Night<\/em> (1996) is a movie about two Italian brothers discovering themselves and each other while trying desperately to keep their restaurant afloat in America, their adopted land.\u00a0 Starring Tony Shaloub and Stanley Tucci, \u00a0the movie ends with the brothers silently sharing a frittata, in an emotional scene that invokes feelings of sadness, friendship, forgiveness, and love. \u00a0The fundamental and historic qualities of these emotions are mirrored in the simple and ancient frittata, which one brother makes for the other.\u00a0<br \/>\nFrittatas are very similar to omelets but served open-faced and sometimes placed on Italian bread when eaten.\u00a0 Frittatas are easy to make and extremely versatile; any frittata recipe can be made to suit your personal tastes by adding or removing ingredients.\u00a0 Even the amount of eggs can be changed to serve more or less people.\u00a0 The vegetarian frittata recipe here is most commonly associated with the Liguria region of Northern Italy, which has a history of people using goat cheese in their recipes because of the area&#8217;s remoteness and the goats&#8217; ability to live on mountainsides.\u00a0<br \/>\n<strong>Zucchini and Goat Cheese Frittata<\/strong><br \/>\nIngredients:<br \/>\n10 eggs<br \/>\n\u00bd \u00a0tsp. salt<br \/>\n1 Tbs. unsalted butter<br \/>\n1 tsp. thyme<br \/>\n2-3 small zucchini, sliced thinly<br \/>\n2 Tbs. oregano leaves<br \/>\n2 tsp. chopped fresh flat leaf parsley, plus more for garnish<br \/>\n4 oz. goat cheese, crumbled<br \/>\nDirections:<\/p>\n<ol type=\"1\">\n<li>Whisk eggs and \u00bd tsp. salt.<\/li>\n<li>Melt 1 Tbs. butter in pan over medium heat, add zucchini, thyme, and oregano leaves when butter foams and saut\u00e9 for 30 seconds.\u00a0 Add oregano, 2 tsp. parsley and cook for 30 seconds.<\/li>\n<li>Add eggs, stir in circular motion and lift cooked edges to allow uncooked egg to flow underneath.<\/li>\n<li>Sprinkle cheese on frittata, do not stir, cook 4-5 minutes more.<\/li>\n<li>Place plate over pan and flip pan so that frittata turns over onto the plate.\u00a0 Then slide the frittata back into the pan, uncooked side down.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Reduce heat to low and place pan back on stove.\u00a0 Place plate back on top of the pan and cook, covered, for 3 minutes.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Remove plate and cook until eggs are set.\u00a0 Then slide frittata onto plate (some people like to drain frittatas briefly on paper towels before serving).\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Serve with salad and\/or Italian bread.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Editor: Joseph Mc Veigh\u00a0 copyright, 2008, Maria Liberati,The Basic Art of Italian Cooking by Maria Liberati tm Home1 Hope you are all enjoying your Memorial Day celebrations for those in&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[50,57,11],"tags":[6,8,213,214,215,216,217,218,219],"class_list":["post-203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-facts","category-features","category-recipes","tag-cheese","tag-eggs","tag-famous-recipes","tag-frittata","tag-goat-cheese","tag-independent-films","tag-literature","tag-movies","tag-the-big-night"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marialiberati.com\/freshsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marialiberati.com\/freshsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marialiberati.com\/freshsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marialiberati.com\/freshsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marialiberati.com\/freshsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/marialiberati.com\/freshsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marialiberati.com\/freshsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marialiberati.com\/freshsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marialiberati.com\/freshsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}