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How to use up old bread!

November 29th, 2011
Italian bruschetta recipeCredits: Flickr
Sometimes happens that it is a pity throw away some slices of bread because it isn’t freshly baked… Bruschette, such as  the Panzanella, is one of the favourite way for Italians to use the old bread and to revitalize the unique aroma of a loaf just out of the oven!
The homemade bread (called casareccio in italian language) is the best choice for this typical Italian recipe.
1st step: Turn on the oven to 220° to preheat
2nd step: Chop some tomatoes (remove the skin if you prefer) and dress them with  extra virgin olive oil, salt and basil.
3rd step: Cut the bread on thick slices, rub them with a fresh garlic, and cook only one side of each slice with a little olive oil for 3-4 minutes
4th step: Put the the bread on a serving platter and top each slice with the “tomatoes sauce”

Buon Appettito!

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Who invented the Tiramisù?

November 3rd, 2011

Tiramisù, Italian DessertCredits: Locali storici d’Italia

Tiramisù is one of the most famous desserts in the world because it is sweet, gorgeous, fabulous, superb and the list could go on for ever…but Who invented this perfect Italian dessert?
At the beginning the recipe was a traditional “snack” for the elderly and for children because of the simplicity of its ingredients…while the ingredient, which made tiramisù so popular around the world, was the cocoa. The idea to add the magic ingredient to the ancient recipe came to the Madame Alba di Pillo, and to a young cook, Paolo Linguanotto, in the late 1960 in Treviso.

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How to eat a pizza while strolling about!

October 27th, 2011
Popular in many parts of Italy, is typical of the city of Rome, Pizza al taglio, a variety of Pizza, is well known and appreciated in Italy because gets you the opportunity to enjoy a pizza while walking with a friend or stretching your legs during your lunch break. Pizza al taglio literally means pizza by the cut or by the slice because it is cooked in a wood-fire electric oven, in large metal trays and sold in rectangular slices. You can choose several varieties from the simplest Pizza Margherita till 4 or 5 additional toppings. To sum up: elect your best bakery, make your decision about toppings and, finally, your pizza al taglio is wrapped  in a paper napkin with the simple, but very useful intention to be consumed elsewhere.

 

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Fried Black Olives

October 21st, 2011

Enjoy the Season’s First Taste Treats

Olive Nolche, Apulia - Recipes

Fall is olive season here in Puglia. Wherever you go, as far as the eye can see, vast expanses of olive groves surround you. At this time of year, the trees are heavily laden with their valuable and tasty fruit, the mighty olive, source of both health and wealth. Besides being delicious both whole and in the form of oil, the olive is chockfull of vitamins, minerals and essential amino acids, and has historically been the main crop driving the local economy.

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The first olive to mature each autumn is the Nolca, one of the few types of olive that can be eaten straight off the tree, without the various treatments necessary to make most olives edible. The Nolca contains less oleuropein, a powerful antioxidant chemical which give other olives their bitter taste. Science aside, all you really need to know is that they are delicious and are available right now!

The Nolca olive can be simply washed and eaten raw, ideally accompanied by freshly baked bread to help neutralize the slightly bitter aftertaste typical to all olives, but barely perceptible in this variety. However, the ideal way to prepare these taste treats is to fry them. No real recipe is necessary for this simple dish, just a few simple instructions.

Fried Nolca Olives

Ingredients

Nolca (or other sweet black olives) – Extra-virgin Olive Oil – Garlic – Chili Pepper – Salt

Directions

Pour a small quantity of extra-virgin olive oil into a frying pan and begin to sauté 1 whole clove of garlic and 1 small chili pepper. Quickly add the washed and thoroughly dried olives. Salt well and stir often. The olives are ready when they begin to soften.

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The most funny food related italian idioms!

September 15th, 2011
The most funny food related italian idioms
Our perception is always subject to our personality and to our different ways to see the world even if sometimes the evidence is so obvious. The most striking example is about love. Often when you fall in love you get unable to see the truth, either figuratively. Maybe your friend is trying to explain you how things are and you don’t see… Avere il prosciutto sugli occhi is the perfect exclamation to  scream at your friend, because what it means is didn’t see the foul as he had prosciutto over his eyes! It is another food related italian idiom and its literal translation is “to have ham over your eyes”!.

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