Frank Delzingaro’s Pasta Class 7-22-2025

To steal from the creative minds at Dos Equis, Frank Delzingaro is arguably the most interesting man in Marsh Creek. [If you need a reminder who the other guy is, click this link].

We’ve written about him before in the Spoonbill Courier. Frank the Air Force bomber pilot. Frank the accomplished bodybuilder. In fact, this Italian Stallion retains the physique and 50,000 watt smile of someone half his age. Not bad for a 90 year old!

And, pertinent to this account, he’s also an accomplished “capocuoco” (That’s Italian for chef).

On Tuesday, Frank and his wife Donna opened up their home to a gaggle of Spoonbill Neighbors culinary students. They came to learn how to make pasta, and he was going to teach them.

Each student, working with her own food processor and at her assigned station, and armed with copies of Frank’s pasta and meat sauce directions, began the job of measuring out the ingredients …  all-purpose flour, eggs, olive oil, water and salt.

That done, it then came time to fire up the blenders and make some magic:

And poof … those simple ingredients transformed themselves into a big yellow ball of pasta dough resembling , um, a disembodied brain. So, if we continue on with the brain analogy, the next step had the interns watch their surgeon perform a dissection.

The food blenders were the key to the exercise. Each could accept adapters converting them from blenders into pasta flatteners, and later into pasta cutters. As you might expect, this took some time as each student shared the equipment. But soon they began to get the hang of it and all the dough was flattened and laid out to dry.

The next step – SHOWTIME! Replace the module that thinned the pasta with cutting module that produced FETTUCCINE.

All told, this cooking class took about two hours. And a cynic might wonder, with all the blending, kneading, thinning, cutting and drying, why not just … well, you can guess where this is going. So listen to the exchange:

Everyone went home pretty proud with their accomplishment – freshly made fettuccine, and a gift of some of Frank’s special Italian meat sauce to accompany their pasta.

Frank says he’s willing to do this class again for others.

With snacks and drinks, it has some of the trappings of another Spoonbill Neighbor’s Happy Hour, a lot of fun.

Remember – don’t call it work! In fact, give it try it at home with some Italian wine and you may even feel the love.

Spoonbill Neighbors is a social group open to all Marsh Creek residents. It provides a variety of social activities for neighbors to meet and socialize.   If you are interested in joining Spoonbill Neighbors, please contact the Spoonbill Neighbors co-chairs, Patty Damon and Lorraine Novinger at spoonbillneighbors@yahoo.com