Ravioli is a very popular dish in the Italian cuisine. They cook this dish in different ways; each region has its own recipes. You can use any fillings – vegetables, mushrooms, ham. The dough is made with many eggs, 6 or 8 as a rule. We put only 4 eggs in the dough for dietary […]
When cold seasons set in more people come down with the flu. Dietician Catherine Field believes that almost all the vitamins and minerals play a part in ensuring the best reaction of the immune system to infections. But she points out that the intake of chemical vitamin additives does not help the immune system and […]
You can cook very tasty salads with any kind of salty red fishes: summer salmon, salmon or trout. These fishes go to a marvel with the taste of olives and small sweet cherry tomatoes. It is especially healthy to dress all salads with good Extra Virgin olive oil of first extraction. Ingredients for Salad with […]
This eggplants in olive oil recipe is typical for central Italy. Eggplants do not get thermal treatment but they are soaked in salt and vinegar. They usually take a special local sort of small round eggplants which grow ripe in late fall. Eggplants in olive oil have a piquant taste not unlike that of marinated […]
You may think it’s a bit of an eyewash there being any food that could help fight obesity – you have to get along half-starved all the time if you don’t want to put on weight. But you are wrong! Scientists from the University of Florida think that you must eat to lose weight, but […]
Here is one more recipe for Panna Cotta. It has fewer calories as cream is adulterated with milk by half, so you may safely treat yourself to this Italian dessert even if you are dieting. It is not very difficult to make and will take little time. Ingredients for Panna Cotta with Chocolate and Pistachios […]
Cooking rabbit meat in different sauces is always a promise of a delicious meal. Meat comes out a little sweet and very juicy when cooked in tomato sauce with sweet pepper. You can take either fresh tomatoes or canned ones. If you like your dishes more pungent add some hot red pepper into the sauce. […]
You can cook this risotto for a holiday dinner too. For example, as often as not this is a usual dish for Holy Christmas in Italian families. Risotto with black truffles is not so expensive as it may seem at first, for not all black truffles are very expensive. These mushrooms picked from May till […]
You can cook tasty pasta with artichoke sauce. In Italy all kinds of flour production including macaroni goes by the name “pasta”. It is Italians’ favorite food. 0.2 lb (100 g) pasta is quite enough to satiate one man. If you do not wish to put on weight, you must serve light and low-calorie sauces […]
Pistachios can be an important component of a healthy diet. Scientists discovered that eating pistachios is linked with cholesterol level. This news was published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. Scientists say that pistachios are very salubrious in preventing heart and blood vessel disorders. They conducted extensive work to investigate the way the compounds […]
Turkey meat is one of the most dietary kinds of meat; it has soft consistence and delicate taste. It’s not difficult to cook; dishes from this meat are always excellent. You will love turkey leg baked in an oven with potatoes and white mushrooms. Mushroom flavor gives a special charm to this dish. Ingredients for […]
Some excellent news has come from France. Now you can throw away all the recipes scribbled in your notebooks and on scraps of paper. The French, famous for their exquisite cuisine, invented and produced a special computer for the kitchen. It was given the code name QOOQ, pronounced “cook”, which also means “cook”. It can […]
It is the second season for artichokes in Sicily now, and you can buy fresh juicy artichokes in the stores. They cook the tastiest dishes with them in Italy. For one, they make a delicious artichoke sauce with olives and capers, which will be enjoyed by all Mediterranean cuisine lovers. This sauce can be served […]
“Panna Cotta” (boiled cream) is a well-known Italian dessert. It originated in Piedmont. They usually cook it from cow cream with the addition of agar-agar or gelatin. You can add fruits, chocolate, nuts – everything you wish to make the taste richer. “Panna Cotta” is the favorite dessert of the popular actress Angelina Jolie. She […]
The new research from Nestle showed that a few bars of black chocolate a day improve metabolic reactions of people placed in stressful and depressive situations to a great extent. The study describing the results of the research appeared in the Journal of Proteome Research. Sunil Kochhar, D. Sc., with his colleagues from the research […]
