Comments on: Getting Ready

By: Michele Scicolone

Michele Scicolone — Sat, 27 Mar 2010 18:45:52 +0000

Thanks, Julie! Buona Pasqua!

By: Julie

Julie — Sat, 27 Mar 2010 17:55:35 +0000

I’m heading to Coluccio’s today to get the ingredients to make this pie! I’m so excited as my grandmother would make this every Easter and it was so delicious. Thank you for posting this recipe and for suggesting Coluccio’s on a past post. Good to know!
Keep the recipes coming, please!
Julie

By: Michele Scicolone

Michele Scicolone — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 12:53:46 +0000

Hi, Michael,
Sounds like a cook’s nightmare! Buy the skinless wheat. It doesn’t need an overnight soak, just a few minutes of cooking.
Kalustyan’s should have it. I got mine at Coluccio’s in Brooklyn.

By: Michael Strasser

Michael Strasser — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 19:21:15 +0000

Michele: Thank you for posting this splendid recipe along with the picture of the finished product. It reminds me of the one time I tried to make this pie to present at my Italian-American brother-in-law’s Easter celebration. The pie looked wonderful, but the recipe failed to mention that you had to soak the wheat berries overnight. The result was al-break-your-dente, tiny pellets of unchewable wheat in the middle of a delicious filling. A disaster! I learned my lesson, but have never gone near the recipe again. I will try your version, however. Thanks again.