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Last Easter we were invited to the Barretta family's house for dinner.  We were served a fantastic 7 course meal which included a pasta dish called Rondelli.  I think that was my favorite pasta I have had in Italy.  Last week, Gina came over and showed me how to make Rondelli.  It was such a fun morning.

First we made the pasta dough.

We rolled each small bit of pasta into a very thin sheet of dough about 9x13 inch sheet.  We made four rectangles of dough.

And then boiled each rectangle in boiling salted water for five minutes.

We oiled the table cloth with olive oil and overlapped the pasta pieces into one big piece.  Any little holes in the big piece we patched with pasta patches.

Then we poured a layer of Bescemela over the top and topped that with a thin layer of proschuito.

Then we layered that with grated mozzarella cheese, and sprinkled the final layer with grated Parmesan  cheese.  We rolled it all up like when you make cinnamon rolls.

Sliced them into 2 inch thick slices and layed them in pan with a layer of red meat sauce in the bottom.

Top the whole thing with red meat sauce and sprinkle the top with Parmesan cheese.  Bake for about 40 minutes and you have Rondelli!