Bruschetta is an antipasto from Italy consisting of grilled bread rubbed with garlic and topped with tomatoes, olive oil, salt and pepper. The cuisine of Vatican City (Holy See) is the same as those in Rome. So Bruschetta is also eaten in the Vatican City.

The ingredients used in the video recipe:
• 4 slice s of semolina bread
• 9 ounces of mozzarella di bufala
• 10 cherry tomatoes
• Extra virgin olive oil
• Dried oregano • Salt
• A clove of garlic
• 12 black olives (preferably Gaeta olives)
• 8 very fresh basil leaves.

Photo by Richardzx

Calzone is a folded pizza shaped like a semi-circle or half moon. Bread dough filled with pizza ingredients such as mozzarella, tomato and dry-cured ham or Prosciutto. You can make Mediterranean ones using Feta Cheese, and Mediterranean ingredients. For me, I like to add what is called 'erős paprika', in English - hot green pepper. The 'burst' flavor in every bite of this hot green pepper is just amazing! Of course, the cheese plays a big part of the great taste! Will post about Stromboli soon...

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20 sponge finger (lady fingers)
1 cup sugar
4 eggs (separated)
1/4 cup cocoa powder
1 1/2 cups mascarpone cheese
2 cups espresso (sweetened to your liking)

Tiramisu (Italian: Tiramisù; Veneto: Tiramesù [tirameˈsu]) is one of the most popular Italian cakes. It is made of savoiardi (or 'lady finger' biscuits) dipped in espresso or strong coffee, layered with a whipped mixture of egg yolks, mascarpone, and sugar, and topped with cocoa.

Tiramisu has become a very popular dessert. The recipe has been adapted into cakes, puddings, and other varieties of dessert. Happy Valentines' Day!

Tiramisu 

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Panettone is a type of sweet bread loaf originally from Milan. I took this photo in Venice Mestre.

Ingredients

1/3 cup water
2 eggs
2 egg yolks
1/2 cup butter (margarine)
21/2 cups all-purpose flour
3 tbsps sugar
1/2 tsp salt
1 package active dry yeast
2 tbsps grated orange (peel)
1 tbsp lemon peel (grated)
11/2 tsps vanilla
1/4 cup golden raisins
1/4 cup sliced almonds

Here's a video recipe:

The name of this dish means more than one piece of lasagna ribbon, Lasagne. This flat pasta interspersed with sauces, tomato sauce, ricotta cheese, ground beef, sometimes even spinach. Spices such as oregano, garlic, onion and flavored with wine! The best is when the pasta is made with semolina durum wheat. The following video recipe is a great one to share. Enjoy!



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This is my first homemade Stromboli. The filling are salami, sausages, cheese and hot green pepper. The cheese I used is trappista, could have used mozarella instead, but that was what is available in the store for today.

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This is the Pizza I made today for my husband. He rated it well, very well actually. So this is my very own recipe, hope you enjoy it too:

First make the pasta base :)

Ingredients: Flour, Yeast, Water, Olive Oil, Honey, Salt.

Add 5g of yeast to one teaspoon of honey, add 3 tablespoon of warm water, mix it and let it react for 10mins.

When mixture becomes fluffy, you can add 500g of flour, pinch of salt and mix them well.

When it become crumbly add water and knead it for 20mins, until it becomes the dough.

Let it rest for 30mins and punch down the puff up pasta and divide it into two parts.

Roll it down to two doughs (one for each pasta base).

Add oil and let it rest for another hour.

Flatten it with your palm or roll it to the thickness you like, adding some flour every now and then so it won't stick to your hands.

For the pasta sauce :)

Ingredients: Onions, Tomatoes puree, oregano, salt.

With two large onions, diced them and fry in olive oil til translucent.

Add one can of Pomodoro sauce (Italian tomatoes are longish types, very juicy and delicious) :)

Add half a cup of water and simmer til the fragrant of the pizza sauce fills your entire kitchen :)

Add fresh oregano and salt. Let it cool down before adding to the pizza base.

Add toppings: in this pizza photo above, Hungarian Kolbasz (Smoked sausage), Trappista cheese, cherry tomatoes and some minced garlic are added. You can top it with whatever you prefer.

There were some ham slices in this one too ;)

Bake it for 8 mins at 200 deg Celsius, when ready top it with Rucola. And enjoy!

If you would to see how to make the dough from scratch with raw ingredients, here's a video to share:

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Tomato and Basil Pasta is a simple and flavourful pasta recipe based on the Italian Caprese salad. Caprese salad is comprised of very fresh, ripe tomatoes served with slices of fresh buffalo mozzarella cheese and fresh basil all simply dressed with best-quality extra virgin olive oil.

The red tomatoes, white cheese and green herbs evoke the Italian flag. As well, this simple preparation allows the individual ingredients to shine. Hope you will like the video recipe that added artichoke hearts!