Peanut and I throw a holiday party for all our friends each year, where we make way too much food, play board games, and usually end up spilling alcohol everywhere. This year, we decided to try our hand at making a dish that utterly defies reason and logic: timpano.
I first learned of timpano from this Binging with Babish video, which I imagine you’ve already seen. Here’s the basic recipe:
- Roll out a just absurdly large circle of pasta dough, and line the inside of a dutch oven with it.
- Fill it with absolutely every Italian dish you’ve ever heard of.
- Bake it, flip it, and serve it.
Timpano traditionally has hard boiled eggs in it, but that sounded weird and gross to us, so we decided on the following layers:
We folded all that up and baked all 38 lbs. of food for about an hour, and this was the result:
There was a really loud THUD as I flipped the meat and pasta monstrosity out of the pot, but thankfully everything stayed together and carved up nicely. We fed a dozen people and had enough leftover to bring my parents dinner tonight.
What good are holidays if you can’t take the opportunity to go overboard making all your friends and loved ones fat and happy?
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