Pasta Sauce Gift Set with Rich Tomato Flavors

DESCRIPTION Lemon & Basil Sauce Hot summer days, cool, foggy nights and rich volcanic soil combine to create Sicily’s famously delicious lemons!  Mixed together with bright, red cherry tomatoes, our pasta sauce has a flavor that’s both tart and sweet!   And to give it some backbone, we add a dash of basil (whose essential oils pair beautifully with the recipe’s natural acidity) to create this bright yet sophisticated sauce. Sicilian Olive As the Italian air starts to chill each Autumn, dark, emerald Castelvetranos are plucked from olive trees hundreds of years old.  Their buttery flavor and meaty texture is the heart and soul of our sauce.  Gently simmered with Italian tomatoes and caper flower buds, a dash of red pepper is thrown in at the end for a tiny bit of heat.  Try some today with pasta, chicken or even fish! Black Truffle Sauce Raised in the shadows of oak and hazelnut trees, these subterranean fungi add a level of haute cuisine to your table.  Luxurious yet delicate, Italian truffles are among the most expensive tubers in the world.  Unlike most ingredients, they infuse the rare 5th savory flavor of “umami” into your now delicious dish of pasta! Eggplant Parmesan Sauce Sicilian eggplants, painted in striking purple and black hues, are an edible Italian sunrise.  Our sauce is based on the classic Pasta alla Norma recipe (a tribute to 19th century composer Vincenzo Bellini’s tragedy “Norma.”)  Food critics compared this culinary masterpiece to the lyrical perfection of his opera.  Here we use luscious eggplants that are sprinkled with local herbs and sautéed in white wine as the base of this delicious sauce! Grana Padano Cheese Sauce Invented in 1100 A.D. by Italian monks, this cave-aged cheese is an Emilia Romagna classic! Soaked in brine and ripened for up to several years, this creamy, raw milk cheese has a smooth, nutty flavor.  We’ve melted the Grana over rich, Sicilian tomatoes and gently simmered it with a blend of local herbs and extra virgin olive oil to create this delicious sauce! Tuna & Olive Sauce Gigantic tuna migrate each year back to the clear, salty waters of Sicily.  Famous for its delicious seafood, so many fish are caught during harvest that the coastal waters turn crimson (known by locals as “la tonnara” or the chamber of death).  Today our healthy, premium tuna is gently cooked with delicious cherry tomatoes, caper buds, green olives and lemon zest until the meat falls off the bone.  Creamy Vodka Sauce The 1980s in Italy were a time when models danced the night away in discotheques (with occasional breaks to snack on tiny bowls of pasta)!  It’s there that this intoxicated marriage of ripe tomatoes, dry vodka and luscious cream was born.  Northerners love dairy, southerners love tomatoes and normally never the two shall meet.  But add a shot of vodka and you have this blasphemously delicious sauce!   Collection Contains: Black Truffle Eggplant & Parmesan Lemon & Basil Grana Padano Cheese Sicilian Olive Tuna & Olive Creamy Vodka   ORIGIN Italy   STORAGE TIPS Keep in a cool, dry place and away from direct sunlight.   PEOPLE WHO PURCHASED THIS ALSO PURCHASED Pairings - Pastificio dei Campi Vermicelli pasta from Gragnano, Italy   SUBSTITUTES This amazing line is unfortunately also very unique and almost impossible with which to find a substitute.     Out of Stocks - any items that are temporarily out of stock will be substituted with an item of similar value.