Starters, Street food

Vegetarian Chickpeas eggplant “meat”balls

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Good morning 💚❤ everyone! Italians love the “Polpette” and I love to do with many different ingredients, not only with ground meat. These meatballs are made with chickpeas and eggplant and they are very filling, tasty and one incredible source of plant proteins. They are perfect for a meat-free day or for those who are vegetarian. I’m going to explain you how to do these round wonders step by step. I had eat them for lunch with a tomato salad but they are also perfect for a Sunday brunch buffet or for starters when you grill.

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Pasta

Pasta alla Norma

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Good morning 💚❤everyone!!! Today I want introduce to you this wonderfull dish : Pasta alla Norma. This is an Sicilian Recipe made in whole Italy but the city that give birth this plate it’s also the city that give birth to me : Catania! In my city we also call it ” pasta cca sassa e i mulinciani fritti” aka pasta with tomato sauce and fried eggplant.

The history of the name have origin probably from a apocryphal exclamation by the Italian writer  Nino Martoglio who, upon tasting the dish, exclaimed “This is a real ‘Norma’!”,  comparing it with the exceptional perfection of the Vincenzo Bellini Opera Norma.

According to others, the recipe would have been perfected, reinterpreted and developed on the basis of traditional cuisine by a chef on the occasion of the celebrations for the new opera from Catania. Since it has always been a fairly consolidated practice by top chefs and event organizers to pat homage to illustrious guests of honor with dishes created ad hoc, perhaps in one of the many receptions Bellini himself was present in his land.

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Rainbow 🌈 recipe 😊

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Hello everyone! There’s something that is very important for me: growing my garden! I really love to cook my own vegetables, this way I’m pretty sure that I have the better ingredients, the better quality, grown up without pesticides but 100% organic. A garden need time and love, but can give to you moments of pure joy. Like this rainbow 🌈! I make my own rainbow too🤣!

Sauces

Capers sauce (without cooking!)

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Good morning 💚❤ food lovers! This is a sauce passe-partout. For do it you’ll need only the ingredients and a small food processor and you’ll not have to cook, it’s ready to use. This is a super easy sauce to make, and it can be a delicious finishing touch for simple baked, grilled, or broiled fish, shrimp, chicken and it’s also almost delightful onto a buttered toasted slice of bread for an unusual bruschetta. My boyfriend and I we do ever this sauce when we grill swordfish.

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