You can cook a nice salad for a holiday table arranging layers of boiled and fresh vegetables, fish and caviar. You must put all the ingredients into a special ring or cylinder. Dress every product separately with a mixture of good olive oil, salt and lemon juice, then fill up the cylinder. You can alter […]
This dish is typical for the cuisine of north Italy. They like to serve boiled meat (usually beef) with a spicy and in the same time very sweet fruit-mustard sauce which is called “Mostarda”. It is an unusual and original fruity mustard which is made of different fruits with sugar, white wine and dry mustard. […]
All over the world people are rejecting poor quality fast foods in favor of slow foods, meaning they begin to prefer slowly-prepared meals that are much better in terms of health and quality. Now it is considered popular and prestigious to hold dinner or supper home parties and serve home made dishes instead of those […]
There is a Christmas tradition in Italy that one must eat at least a bit of a fried eel on Christmas Eve. That’s why before Christmas all Italian shops install aquariums full of live eels. This fish is very tenacious so it is some task to cope with it. Those who do not care to […]
Much has been written about the benefits of grape wine lately. Dieticians, doctors and scientists urge to include it into the diets regularly. But it appears that grape juice is as salubrious as wine and maybe even more effective in its influence on certain organs. The latest scientific studies show that grape juice has a […]
While studying Italy, its traditional recipes, the history and traditions of its cuisine you can get to know better the tastes of its different regions. Here is the recipe for the Mustaccioli cookies which are traditionally baked in Neapolitan families for Christmas. These cookies are very flavorful with a rich taste of almonds and chocolate. […]
The caviar of sea fishes is an excellent dietary source of Omega 3, the results of a research carried out by Spanish scientists from the University of Almeria show. The scientists studied the caviar of fifteen species of sea animals and found that all of it contained large amounts of fat acids which are so […]
You can cook this jelly from fresh or canned pineapples alike. It is almost translucent, yet with a rich taste and flavor. If pineapple is fresh you’ll have to dip it into boiling water for some minutes as we did in our recipe. If you take canned pineapple slices just put them into forms. The […]
After numerous delays the Neapolitan pizza finally entered the Olympus of selected European products protected by special trademarks. So if someone in Brussels wishes to enjoy this pizza tomorrow, they can be sure that what they get is bona fide Neapolitan pizza that was prepared in accordance with the tradition. Its recipe, components and the […]
Appetizers with Belgian endive look great on the table and can draw your visitors’ attention. You can serve whatever you may wish on endive leaves, keeping in mind that endive belongs to the chicory family so it has a light pungent taste. While choosing endive take only stalks with yellow leaf ends as those endives […]
Why is sausage especially dangerous to men? Women eat it too. The reason is that men eat almost twice more sausage than women do. Modern sausage products can’t be considered healthy food; they are full of chemical additives. Scientists say that they increase the risk of developing colon cancer by almost 20 percent. As a […]
Soufflé cream is easy to make, it not fatty and it goes down well especially with fresh berries. This dessert with cream, fruits and berries can even do instead of a cake if you do not wish to bother overmuch with cooking or merely don’t have enough time. The only thing that will take you […]
Mint tea is customarily used in Brazil as a cure for different diseases. It has been known for its healthy properties in fighting digestive system problems for a long time. It helps for indigestion and flatulence because tannins contained in mint inhibit the spread of the putrefactive bacteria. Now scientists discovered that mint also alleviates […]
You can easily prepare a light, vitamin-laden, cleansing salad from red beet and sauerkraut. The juicy taste and bright color of this salad are augmented by sweet red pepper and tomatoes. Salubrious benefits of vegetables are indisputable, so you can eat different salads every day. Ingredients for Salad with Red Beet and Sauerkraut 1-2 boiled […]
Here is some good news for chicken aspic lovers – chicken collagen offers protection from rheumatoid arthritis. According to the results of the research published in the open BioMed Central access in the Journal of Arthritis Research & Therapy chicken collagen of the second type – fiber extracted from chicken breast cartilage – is a […]
