Nonna's Pizza Rustica - Pizzagaina - Rossella's Cooking with Nonna 

9:40 She's still pissed about you breaking that roller....

Nonna like "You don't let me do or day nuthin, who taught you how to make it?" lol

I wish you let her talk more. She has a beautiful voice :)

You should have let Grandma do more, she's just standing there

You should let her do something it her recipe. Looks like is she afraid to intervene.

Nonna should have a bigger role in these videos. Also Rossella is talking so loud I had to turn my phone down more than half way because it sounds like she’s shouting. Otherwise cool recipes they look amazing

I was thinking about the fact that you american people call it pizzagaina, while in Italian dialects it’s written “pizza chiena-pizza piena”. And then I realized that there’s a very simple reason for that... I thought of all the people that first came from Italy, and how poor and (some) young and uneducated they were, that they didn’t bring written recipes or the exact names of things, but they just brought their love of home and their original cuisines. So names like pasta fazool and pizza gaina sound like that just because they actually sounded like it to english speakers or the second generation italian americans that later wrote all those recipes to save tradition ❤️

This brings back so many memories of growing up surrounded by my Italian family. So many are gone now and my children are grown, but I am making this recipe this Easter!! Yum!! Thank you for this delicious recipe! I agree that your Nonna should have more speaking time. She seems so sweet, but we don't get to hear her very much. You do a very nice job explaining everything.

My mother made this every Easter and I love it so much it is my favorite. She would also make the best wheat pies. She was a phenomenal cook and baker. Her and my aunt her sister would stay in the kitchen all night before a Holiday cooking up a storm. The baking started at least a few days or a week before. Love your Nonna she is adorable.

I much rather watch Cooking With Italian Grandma Gina!!! It’s all about watching a Nonna like your mother.. much more fun!

Nonna watches you like a hawk Rossella!!! You better behave !!! She must love that kitchen aid stand mixer !!! love you both xxoo

It makes me sad to think these traditions are dying...I haven't had a pie like this on Easter for many years. My grandmother used to make the best one, and she used to let me help decorate the top of the pie crust. So many good memories.

My dad’s side of the family were from Naples, Italy and the Easter Pie was made on Good Friday and eaten on Easter Sunday as you stated. My maiden name is Pasqua. God Bless on Easter and always. Thank you for the video.

Asks her grandma if she wants a taste. Then goes straight for the front part with her fork. Leaving grandma in the dust. Way to go. 👎

She really reminds me of my own grandma, who (very generously) gave me her own recipe before her passing. She made it for really any special occasion, including Thanksgiving, Christmas, and visits from her grandkids. My dad gets very sentimental whenever I make it for him. (Incidentally, it's always been "pizzagan" in my family.) Thank you for sharing this - her recipe is slowly evolving into my own, and I love seeing how other people do it.

We used basket cheese, hard salami, grated cheese, prosciutto and lots of eggs. We called it pizza rustica, grandma from Naples

Rotella isn't respecting Nonas experience in making the family recipe that she is knowledgeable in making in her life experience.

The recipe says lard or shortening but you use butter in the video? If so how much? I’m making it today

I can’t remember a Easter with out it ..thank you

Growing up Italian my grandmother & auntie called it Easter pie

Me and my sisters would fight over grandma's pizza rustica.. So every Easter grandma would make each of us our own pie so we wouldn't fight..

I think this is great what you are doing Rosella - you are really honoring these capable and humble women- having this oral history is so valuable😘

Let your Nonna do something instead of you doing all the work.

When I was a child (50 years ago) my neighbors used to give us some of their Easter pie as my mother did not make it. I always loved it so much, along with their stuffed squid and spaghetti they would share. Unfortunately I was in hospital for kidney stone this past Sat-Sun, but did get home in time to make the ham dinner yesterday evening. They had to wait, but it was good! . Today I am making this wonderful dish. It is in the oven now - late is better than never. Your Nonna is adorable and the two of you make a nice team. Keep up the good work Rossella!

So lucky to have such a beautiful Nonna. Thank you for sharing such wonderful recipes.

This brought back so many memories of my Italian Mama. Every Easter we would cut up all the meats and make this. My Mother in law was the greatest cook and taught me all her Italian recipes.❤️Miss my Mama.

You can tell grandma is getting agita just watching 😂

grazi signorina e nonna, grazie per tutti I tuoi programmi. memorie Nonna sono eterna! buona oasqua, Orazio

I put some sausage in mine. Great recipe

Agree with Doug Tuf. If t seems like Nonni is being used as a prop

It’s supposed to be. Cooking WITH GRANDMA?? OT COOKING WITH YOU..... Let grandma have the front seat and let’s see her cook.. otherwise make it called Cooking with M3!

That looks fantastic!! YUM!

Feel so bad when Nonna goes to help and doesn’t get admired :( such a good video besides that!

You gals are terrifico! Love love how you use the American Italiano lingo correctly, you use it as it’s supposed to be used, WITH the vowel at the end! Belllllisssimo ! The Pizza Rustica recipe and how you share it with us, of course rocks, too!!! Graci Graci ! Happy Easter 🐇 ✝️🐣🙏♥️

Omg I am making it for Christmas with my mom ! ❤ it’s a Italian in Tradition !!! 🎉

Love the recipes, but you talk too much ☺️

Similar to what my family makes for Easter but we use sausage, pepperoni and ham and call it “sausage pie”

Thanks for this Laura, it was so great! My favorite part was when you pinched the lattice piece on. HOME COOKING!!! Not perfect, just delicious!

Do you want to be successful? Let Nonna talk. The show should be about her not you. Just be there to help her. To be honest it just looks like you want to show yourself and USE her for marketing reasons. Maybe another couple of thousand of comments will convince you :)

I live in an area with very few Italians. My go-to description for people who've never heard of it (I.E. everybody is a big, boisterous, hairy-chested Italian quiche.

It reminds me of being at my grandmother’s with my mom. Grandmother was just fluttering about trying to tell Mom what to do with her pie crust. Mom told her to go watch tv. As Grandmother left, she had her parting shot, “Good luck with your pie crust.”

I like the wallpaper plants 🌱 I need that in my kitchen 😌 I tried your recipe today, it was delicious 🤤 😋 TYSM

Can ricotta salada be used instead of basket cheese? My northern Italian grandmother used sharp provalone , no mortadella. Soppressata, prosciutto, ricotta and mozzerella.

Always Good Friday but we made all cheese for Friday and after 12 noon Holy Saturday we could eat the pies with the meat. My grandmother used lard, my mother used Crisco in the dough

Out of respect for your grandmother...why are you talking, and doing the demonstration?Let your grandmother do it....she has made it a million times..you are over powering her.

That’s not authentic southern Italian. Southern Italians use oil not butter to make dough pie dough

Looks just like my Nona used to make. God bless you and happy Easter ❤

I love this recipe. It is just like my mother used to make it. The tradition lives on. Happy Easter

My family is from lazio. atina to be exact they also call it pizza rustica!!! Also hilarious that’s it’s killing her to just watch you 😂

How can you give a recipe without measurements? This is a recipe you can't eyeball.

Great recipe! It turned out perfectly. Next time I would drain the basket cheese a little bit but it is a really good recipe

Let Nonna help, you can see she is wanting to. Where are the amounts on the crust and filling. Can't find it.

RO, don't you have a food processor. Well I love your videos. Grazie ciao franco

looks delicious!!! You both are so sweet,,,thank you so much for sharing!!!❤

You should have let your Nana do all the work. She was standing there looking very nervous

You needed the basket 🧺 of cheese wit the Italian meats my grandmom would say.

Why even have her there if you're not going to let her to anything?

Lord hear our prayers 🙏

Ciao, potresti mettere gli ingredienti in italiano? Grazie

Why isn't nonna doing anything. I'm sure she would love to.

I think your Nona would have loved to get her hands in there and been more of a help than a model.

She's to Fufu not rustic that all trying to be too perfect it looks good though

You need a bigger bowl...and beat ur eggs before you add them...

La forma dialettale del nome di questo piatto è "pizzachiena" o "pizzachena", che in italiano sarebbe "pizza ripiena". Per favore, smettetela con 'pizzagheina' o addirittura 'pizzagain'. È un errore. 😎👍

Always a tradition. Now that my parents are gone, my Nana and all aunts and uncles, it's very sad - my sisters don't seem to want it. 😢 Meanwhile I miss it. I learned how to make it in the 70s from my mom and can whip it up easily. I've even cut some of the fat from it over the years. I add a little cooked sausage to it as well. I'm going to make it for MYSELF and freeze pieces of it. What I love in yr version is that the dough is same kind...a thick, heavy egg dough that stands up to that amazing, heavy filling. The egg/lard (I use butter) dough is a MUST. Thank you for making me think of my family and Easter so fondly. My sister is making Easter dinner today. It will certainly be and Italian meal; but no Pizzagain or pizzarustica. I even offered to make it. ❤

Besides being Italian & Beautiful.? You can cook to.? Thanks Rossella,For sharing this great Recipe. My Grandmother,? Did the Dough all by hand.? i remember watching her growing up.? She was Neopolitian

Yes, she is loud. Monopolizes the demonstration.

It's not Italian. It's Neapolitan. Try to go to Florence or Milan and ask if they know it.

Mettete in sovraimpressione il peso degli ingredienti in italiano... Io l'inglese non lo capisco😊❤

I don't know why the american people say "pizza gaina ". In Italy we say: pizza ripiena or in dialect "pizza chiena " but we never say "pizza gaina ", don't exist this word. The cause is the american dialectal inflection that deforms the word.

It's basically a egg pie with all kinds a cut meat in it.

n3xt time don.t play the filmstar. sorry.

Hi Rossella. This looks simply divine! Your nonna is adorable. I don't comment much but I need to say thank you for sharing all the nonna videos. I am a young nonna myself & hope that my grand kiddies remember my recipes that I cook for them. Thank you :)

Italian. My mother in law made it every year. I just thought it'd be nice to bring

Mmm must be really delicious!, here in Argentina we make something like that, but its more flat, like a pie if you will. its called "tarta". Love your recipes! Greets!

You should have mixed the eggs in before you add the meat.

We tried the recipe and came out wonderful!! We love you Rosella and Nonna !!! Nonna is adorable!!!

Keep everything keep every Holiday. Just give me that pie. & i will die a Happy 😃 man. Trust me best thing on this planet. RIP. MoM. ❤️

I make this every year for easter and it is so good!

The story behind this Pie, its a yearly Roman Catholic thing you give up meat for Lent, so this meat -a- palooza pie is the meat lovers belly buster that starts off the Italian Easter Dinner. Its the pie that breaks Lent.

I made this for Easter 2023. Fantastic. Just like my great Nona made. Thank you for the recipe n video. John

Love you educate all about the timeline of it being made and served Happy Easter hope your Good Friday was great

your Nonna is a sweety, great recipe.

I’m out was hoping to hear from Nona

No I’m sorry I can’t watch this 👎🏼

Glad Nonna was telling us all of this 🙄

No ricotta..??I use ricotta, basket cheese and mozzarella ..plus the meats and crated cheese..

My family always called it a cold cut pie

yes i agree with the others fewers let N9na have the role with akl my rezpect.more sympzthic.

Rossella needs to get out of the way and let the cook, Nonna cook and tell us what she is doing.

Where can I find amounts.

My grandmom used to do it wit ham too

I have to say I just found your RU-vid channel and I love it. I love your Nonna! She reminds me so much of my Nonna. How much I miss her. It's been over 33 years since she passed but this channel brought back such beautiful memories of my Nonna trying to teach me some things. Wish I payed more attention and gotten her recipes. But this will help so much. God bless you and your beautiful Nonna!

Watching you make this, encourages beginners to just do your best when trying new recipes...

Pizza chiena! Or pizza piena... Meaning stuffed or filled. Pizza rustica would be more correct. Im not sure about this pizza gaina or whatever...thats non existent in any Italian dialect or region. Im guessing its another American thing that has been mangled or bastardized. The second generation really screwed it up for further generations of Italian Anericans, to be taken seriously when trying to speak Italian. Kinda like when you hear pasta fazool, moozzarell, mortadell... Its not taken seriously by most Italians, and have always been told its a New Jersey, or New York thing. Rossella i am not directing this at you personally! I think you pronounciate the Italian words gracefully. You are not lumped in with the ones i am speaking about! Thank you for the wonderful vids

No,si chiama pizza ripiena.(Pizza rustica.)

poor grandma, you only use her

Why have Nonna on the show? You just don’t let her get two words in! Get Nonna her own show

In Neapolitan dialect "pizza ripiena" becomes "pizza chiena". "Ch" before a vowel is a "k" sound as in the words "Chiave" (key) and "Chiesa" (church).

Respectfully, it’s “Pizza Chiena” in the Neapolitan dialect, not “gaina”. Excellent recipe, very similar to my mum’s.