mediterranean cuisine italy : 9 Recipes
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Healthy Mediterranean Cooking in Puglia
Puglia is certainly a region of extra virgin olive oil, which replaces butter almost everywhere: we put it on top of bread and salads; we use it for cooking and baking. One of the most common questions our guests ask us during our cooking[...] |
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Frisella dry bread from Puglia!
Everybody knows the many different types of bread from Puglia: bread from Altamura, Matera, bread made with durum wheat, barley, rye, semolina etc. All these types of bread are made with different flours and in different shapes and size.[...] |
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Do you like garlic?
Our guests attending our cooking classes in Puglia are always surprised at the fact that in the Pugliese cuisine we use garlic in a very delicate way. Our guests' usual comment after the first bite is: " mmmh...but I[...] |
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Puglia extra virgin olive oil
Since I became a professional extra virgin olive oil taster I had a chance to taste many olive oils from different producers. I am very pleased to find out that more and more producers are focusing on making very high quality extra virgin olive[...] |
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Lucky lentils and Happy New Year!
There is one dish that cannot miss on Italian tables at midnight on December 31st . This is the Lentil soup! Because they resembled coins, in the past they were thought to bring financial prosperity in the year to come. Nowadays, we[...] |
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What is the right amount of pasta per serving?
Hi, this is the fourth lesson about cooking pasta. A lot of people don’t eat pasta: they’re sure pasta is fattening. It isn’t true. It’s true too much food is fattening and pasta is fattening when is too much.[...] |
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Sweet and sour peppers: summer is back in Puglia!
It's unbelievable! We are in December and we are still enjoying a fantastic mild weather in Puglia. Even at the market we can still find summer vegetables, which are not imported but produced by the local farmers. Today I and Marika decided to[...] |
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What's special at the market in Puglia in March: fresh fava beans!
It has been several months now since we started our "What's special at the market in Puglia" section , where we write about seasonal and special products we find at the market in Puglia. Continue reading "What's special at the market in[...] |
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Rare-N-Unusual: Civet Coffee, Eggs of the Maleo Bird, Street Food, Offal, ...
Street Food ~ 12 Memorable Market Meals ~It's a no-brainer: the happy intersection of superfresh ingredients and a built-in trade of hungry customers yields some spectacular cooked-to-order meals in... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my[...] |