The secret of a creamy and enveloping pasta? Certainly not cream, but as you know amid is the key. In this case the Spaghetti Maxi di Gragnano - Pastificio Dei Campi are on the frontline for amid level and quality as we’ve experienced many times, included the dish of Pasta di Gragnano in the photo. The three years rotation of the fields, located in Apulia, guarantees a healthier ground with lower yield but a certainly higher quality of raw materials. A quality that reflects immediately in the dish, where the flavor, the consistency and the properties of the pasta Pastificio dei Capi are the perfect ingredients to raise the level of your recipes.

With the hot summer season the desire of a fresh meal has become stronger and stronger, so than why not trying with a craft Mozzarella di Bufala Campana from Battipaglia - Caseificio Esposito? Fresh, healthy and tasty, directly from Battipaglia, the Mozzarella di Bufala Campana dop arrives every Monday and Thursday in order to guarantee the most possible freshness of the Italian Buffalo Mozzarella. Available in the different formats as the small bites, the aversana and even the braid, rigorously hand made with local fresh milk as a tradition of the high quality Battipaglia Mozzarella di Bufala.

Pasta Mancini is prepared with raw materials, care and time of the best home made dough. Pastificio Agricolo Mancini indeed selects, cultivates and transforms the fittest varieties of wheat for a good and healthy 100% Italian pasta. Guaranteeing the total sincerity and transparency of the company there is the Good Agriculture Practices (GAP) certification, a disciplinary for an eco-compatible of the agricultural activities defined by the Ministry decree of April 19th 1999 as the “Enseble of the cultural methods that a diligent farmer would employ in the interested region”. In addition to traditional formats as spaghetti Mancini, bucatini Mancini, penne Mancini and many others, Mancini proposes more personal ones too as the Tuffoli Mancini, a typical Marche pasta (as the company location itself), mid dimensioned, versatile and perfect for the absorbent of the seasoning.

The Valle d’Aosta wines aren’t always rewarded with the space they would deserve, indeed this region too hides enology specialities and denominations that are worth the best awards by the experts of the sector. Gewürztraminer is a wine variety which found a fertile ground in this region: aromatic and shaped for fresh clime, elements that Le Clocher di Charrère Danilo winery has succeed in exalting, creating a wine amazingly balanced and pleasant, GEWÜRZTRAMINER Vallée d’Aoste dop - LE CLOCHER of which we taste the 2013 vintage. The color is the typical yellow one with golden shades, both on the aromatic and tasting sides it shows a really impressive health for being a six years aged white wine without particular refinement process: the aromas of peach, flowers and aromatic herbs typical of the wine variety are well defined by never excessive, at the palate spices and mineral notes prevail, moreover the unaltered acidity, despite the manu years from the bottling, makes the wine still fresh and intense.

With the approaching of summer, even if tasty and filling seasoning still remains very tempting, it’s not uncommon feeling like eating a fresher but still flavorful dish of pasta. The Trapanese seasoning is a sauce that surely satisfy these need, as you can sense it was born in Sicily, precisely in Trapani, the ideal place par excellence for this kind of recipes. Indeed it is a territory rich in local fresh products, whose combination give life to decise, characteristic, natural and healthy tastes as it is in this case: Sicilian fresh tomatoes, evo oil, Sicilian toasted almonds and raw sea salt. And these are exactly, without any addiction, the ingredients of the Seasoning for Pasta alla Trapanese - SoloSole, a product for which theSoloSole company motto “Sicily In a Jar” could be nothing but perfect.

The smoked scamorza is one of the most consumed Italian cheese, thanks to is tasty fumé note it has conquered an honor place in the Italian kitchens and recipes. Naturally, as every good production reality from Campania, the Caseificio Artigianale Esposito too has this renowned product among their specialities. Cow’s milk from local certified breedings, a brief aging and a final smoking, few and simple passages that, due to manual skills of the cheese making masters, give an high quality, healthy and tasty result.

Passionates of cooking, of authentic, high quality, healthy and ethically sustainable food certainly have already known and tasted Acquerello - Carnaroli Rice. A story that is born in the 15th century, from a simple hostel for pilgrims in Colombara, in the province of Vercelli, a territory that has always been located to rice cultivation. What really makes Acquerello rice unique? the main factors are three; the helix processing, a complex but low invasive method, that allows the perfect cleaning of the grain however preserving every grain integrity at the same time. The one year aging of this Italian rice in silos helps the stabilization of the starches, so that they don’t scatter during the cooking, helping the absorption of condiment too. Lastly, but fundamental, the reintegration of the rice gemma, that is to say the part endowed with the best nutrients, which is normally separated from the grain. Acquerello, due to many years of research, has found a method to reintegrate it, obtaining the taste of carnaroli rice combined with the nutritional value of raw rice.

During the last years red meat has been in the center of many debates, in some cases, we feel free to say, excessively stigmatized. Indeed as it is for every food it is enough to consume the right amount of it, focusing on the choice of high quality red meat, but how? A first step is selecting Made in Italy products, it’s not about patriotism, but simply because the base controls established by the Italian disciplinary are among the most strict of the world. Secondly it would be ideal know the origin, alimentation and treatments received by the animal. The last one is a service that Macelleria Mastra Alebardi has started to offer, giving the total traceability of the Fassona Piemontese meat, bred and butchered directly from the Macelleria Mastra Alebardi itself, From the classic Costata (Entrecôte) made from Fassona beef from Piedmont - Macelleria Mastra Alebardi, fiorentina and many other cuts for a tasty, healthy and controlled red meat.

Is it necessary to give up all carbohydrates to have a healthy diet? No, you simply have to choose high quality raw materials, from the pasta you buy to the raw flours, containing the right amount of nourishment and not too refined ad the 00. In this way, eating a home made pizza or bread will be a satisfaction not only for your palate, but your body too will thank you. The best way to approach this virtuous circle is know and select craft mills like Fastuchera Azienda Agricola, choosing for example producers of ancient wheat as Russello, Tumminia, Maiorca, from the moment that these last ones are almost all stone milled and low refined, both the characteristic are necessary to have an high quality carbohydrate.

Calabria, among the Italian regions overlooking the sea, is maybe the one whose gastronomic culture is most bonded to its hinterland. Decise, strong tastes among which the ‘nduja stands out, typical Calabria speciality par excellence that finds its zenith of nativity in the 'Nduja of black calabrian pig - Consorzio Nero di Calabria, produced by the Consorzio Nero di Calabria, a well known reality among the food excellence. There are united many small producers that breed free range and transform this particular local pig species, closely related with the Iberian Patanegra, endowed with extraordinary tasting and organoleptic properties. The fine meat of this pork variety gives softness both to the taste and the consistency, besides containing omega 3 and omega 6 polyunsaturates that notoriously give benefits to health. Species and red hot chili pepper are perfectly balanced, so that they add a pleasant hot note exiting the natural black pork taste without covering it.

Homemade bread is something that, as other forms of art, is a channel for creativity, expressivity and enriches the knowledges. Moreover it gives us the certainty of eating an healthy product, which is fundamental thing when we talk about everyday food, differently from what normally happens in the most part of the bread, where the amount of yeast is too high, the flour used is too refined and sometimes chemical additives are present too. The first step for an high quality bread is the selection of the raw materials, flour first privileging the raw ones. We’ve invested our time and resources in the promotion of the ancient wheats, endowed with unique organoleptic and taste properties, as we’ve observed after many years of experiments with home made pizza and bread, and the result have been incredibly good. Using Tumminia, Russulidda Durum Wheat Semolina Sicilian biologic stone ground - Fastuchera Farm or Minorca ( Sicilian ancient durum wheat varieties), not only earning in aromatic richness and taste, but our body too will thank us, from the moment that lab analysis have revealed that flours like these bring many different benefits that go from the cardiovascular system ( thanks to lignin) to the ease to digest, moreover discouraging the rise of alimentary intolerances.

The ancient durum wheat varieties have recently been doing a comeback, once they were abandoned for their poor yield, nowadays they’ve been reconsidered for their extraordinary organoleptic properties and the characteristic aromas that distinguish themselves from the most common ones. The Russulidda is part of this category, a Sicilian ancient durum wheat which is a truly unique variety as benefits on health (low gluten content, facilitation of digestion, high lignin content that favours the circulatory system) and the aromatic typicalness. Fastuchera Azienda Agricola is a small Sicilian reality, starting from the ancient wheats cultivation to the transformation in hand made pasta, obtaining a Sicilian ancient wheat pasta from organic agriculture. Yesterday some new products have been presented, among which the Paccheri di Russulidda - Fastuchera Azienda Agricola, a typical format of the southern Italy gastronomic tradition which finds in this variety an original aromatic mark and inviting toasted perfumes.

The Cavalieri family has been committing in the durum wheat cultivation field since 1800, an experience that in 1918 turned into a pasta production activity. The personal knowledge led the Pastificio Benedetto Cavalieri to select only Apulian and Basilicata durum wheats, cultivated excluding the massive use of herbicides going to the detriment of quantity but improving the quality. After becoming a renowned excellence in the homemade pasta production, the last challenge for Benedetto Cavalieri has been the whole wheat pasta. A product that is often seen ad healthy but damaging the taste, so the mission of the company has been making Benedetto Cavalieri whole wheat pasta healthy and tasty at the same time. After many researches and tests the results is an organic pasta not only endowed with great organoleptic properties, but also with an enveloping and rustic taste, as in the case of the Mezzi rigatoni of Organic Durum Wheat Semola Whole Wheat- Pasta Benedetto Cavalieri, a truly interesting and versatile format for your recipes.

Why not starting the day drinking a fresh squeezed juice from Ribera oranges? The sweetness of the Sicilian Ribera Juice Oranges (Arance di Ribera) dop is a panacea for your palate and your health too, coming from just harvested and not treated 100% natural oranges. For this reason maybe the skin won’t be perfect, which is an adjective that does not exist in nature, but that’s why they’re so good.

If you’re looking for a recipe to try here it is a suggestion: Risotto with fresh pesto alla Genovese, Italian Potatoes from Sila, Roman Cauliflower, Sicilian peeled, roasted, almonds - Nama Mandorle and Olive taggiasche denocciolate - Pexto. Carnaroli Rice Principato di Lucedio accompanied by the classic pesto and potatoes pairing, the sweetness of roman broccoli contrasted by the strong and decise taste of the taggiasche olives and in the end a touch of crunchiness given by the toasted almonds. A recipe entirely made up of Made in Italy and healthy ingredient which, due to their well balanced flavours, forming a tasty and harmonious dish.

Today we’re talking about a product which is often seen badly on the nutritional side, but it is always in the table throughout the world, salt. Not all the salts are the same, some are very refined and have a lower cost certainly, but a negative effect on our health, while others due to natural process are endowed with great properties, without the need of artificial processing as washing, drying and chemical additions. The last one is the case of Cuor di Sale, the Raw Sea Salt from Trapani salt pan, a self-sustaining open air tanks system, with a thousand-year old history, which is working still nowadays and is eco-sustainable. As it is a raw salt, cuor di sale contains “alive” magnesium and potassium, inorganic salts that are more precious than the ones sold at the pharmacies, but above all the alive iodine, which act positively on the thyroid gland without the problems deriving from the dead iodine (the one inserted artificially in the iodized salts). It has a stronger salt power compared to the normal kitchen salt, so smaller quantities of salt will be needed with benefits on health, moreover the packaging is designed in order not to let slip the posit element of salt, which are volatile and photosensitive. Available in two formats Raw Sea Salt Picked by Shoulder - Cuor di Sale - Salinagrande and Thin Raw Sea Salt Picked by shoulder - Cuordisale - Salinagrande.

When you’re thinking about something great and tasty to cook, sometimes all you need is simplicity and good raw materials to get an outstanding result. This is the case of an eternal classic recipe of the Italian gastronomic tradition: spaghetti with tomatoes. Only two ingredients are necessary, the Spaghettoni Cavalieri and the San Marzano tomatoes DOP - Agrigenus tomatoes . 100% Made in Italy tasty and healthy high quality products which will bring your recipe completely to a new level.

Podere dei Folli is a familiar conduced agricultural company at the fourth generation now, placed in the Valtènesi area, adjacent to the Brescia shore of Lake of Garda. The changes have been many and different, thanks to the dedication to research and innovations during the years brought to the company production, but the authenticity of the flavors has remained the lowest common denominator. The choice has been focalizing uniquely on BIO DOP certified products, with the aim of offering truly genuine, natural, healthy, good DOP lake of Garda wines and evo oil without the use of any chemical additive. When I first tried the Sofaì Valtènesi D.O.P. organic wine - Podere dei Folli, it immediately brought my mind back to its native territory, thanks to the prevalence of the local vine variety groppello: the main aromas are red fruits with a lightly spices notes, at the palate it is soft, velvety , with a well balanced tannin by the 12 months in barrique and a light almond aftertaste.

Pasta Bossolasco project is born from an agricultural company, when the fourth generation decided to integrate the raw materials transformation, that is to say Italian durum wheat, with the production of the same. It is the second company case in Italy of Italian pasta production with a 100% internal supply chain, so from the wheat cultivation, to the milling in order to obtain the flour, than the processing and finally the packaging. The agricultural origin of the company has the advantage of having knowledges inherent to the activity, which have allowed to obtain high quality Italian products, with the right bland of durum wheat varieties for make a flavorful artisanal pasta, endowed with great cooking resistance and not least a positive impact on health due to its great organoleptic properties. It's available in the formats Fusilli - Pasta Bossolasco, Paccheri - Pasta Bossolasco, Spaghetti - Pasta Bossolasco, Penne - Pasta Bossolasco e Trenette - Pasta Bossolasco.

Bio Colombini was born at the beginning of the 20th century, in Tuscany, 35 hectares of ground where the company cultivates and transform its vegetables naturally, following the organic disciplinary without any exception as the Natural chickpeas - BioColombini, the Organic tomato passata BioColombini and many others. Selected as an example of fair practice by a regional research made by the COSPE institute, Bio Colombini doesn’t only make an ethic choice as it concerns the products, but it commits itself on the social side too. Indeed, it is a reality that promotes many different project, as hiring employees from disadvantaged social groups ( from physical or mental disability, to criminality or drugs addiction) through the cooperation with local institutions, research centers and universities. Thanks to the choices on the production the customers are not only aware that the products are good and healthy, but they know that the money will go to a cause useful for the common good, towards a production sustainable from every point of view.

The experts of the subject state that what truly certifies the quality of an Italian pasta is how it stay firm or not after cooking, that is to say that pasta , after boiling, has to maintain its original shape without laying down and at the same time being properly cooked. When we tried Calamarata di Gragnano - Molino e Pastificio A. Amadio it was immediately clear that this parameter was 100% respected, finding a great and enveloping taste too. It is a certified Pasta di Gragnano IGP, so produced using exclusively Italian durum wheats, bronze drawn and subject to slow drying. These characteristics are necessary to obtain a product which is not only good on the tasting side, but also as it concerns the nutritional values and therefore having a positive impact on body health.

Summer may be coming to the end, but your desire to eat good fish not and La Bottarga di Tonno Group is a masterpiece as it concern both fresh fish and conserved fish. This company is located on the western coast of Sicily, in Custonaci, so they're able to select the freshest and high quality Mediterranean fish from the adjacent sea directly every day. This direct and short chain guarantee our customers the possibility to have te real taste of the sea at their home all year long, having the great beneficial properties on health intact too. You will find fresh ones as Fresh bluefin red tuna fillet, or in oil products like the Sicilian anchovy filets - La Bottarga di Tonno Group or the manufactured ones as Tuna bresaola - La Bottarga di Tonno Group and Bluefin tuna bottarga, 1st choice 800/3000 - La Bottarga di Tonno Group.

How can a customer be really aware of the real quality of the product he's purchasing? Marchesini Salumi is an example of transparency and care for their customers. Every product indeed is traceable through the use of a QR code, with all the informations as where the animal was born, how it was cared they and what it used to eat. In order to have a real traceability the company has integrated all the processes in the internal chain production, from the cultivation of mais, soy and barley used as nourishment for the animals to the butchering. This has been made to allows people to be truly certain of the genuineness of products. Among the cold cuts it is possible to try Guanciale - Azienda Agricola Marchesini, Salame Bresciano - Azienda Agricola Marchesini and many others, they will bring you the real taste of Italian cold cuts from well cared and healthy porks.

Raw meat can be so delicious and refreshing, but it is always necessary to choose very carefully the best quality raw material in order to avoid health risks. The Fassona Piemontese Tartare cut by knife - Macelleria Mastra Alebardi is 100% made up of selected Fassona Piemontese meats coming from animals bred directly by Macelleria Mastra Alebardi in the countryside, with non-intensive methods and feeding the animals only with natural products. So the result is a completely healthy and safe tartare cut by hand, endowed with a delicate taste and with a exceptionally low content of fats, as it is the characteristic of the Fassona Piemontese meat.

Lately pasta has been deleted from many tables with the rise of some low carb diets, but are these ones completely safe? According to the research conduced by the Umberto Veronesi foundation the answer is negative. Indeed the energies brought by the carbohydrates contained in the pasta amid are fundamental and irreplaceable for our organism. The lack of these substances, on the long term, can lead to cardiovascular risks or damages to liver and kidneys. So it is very important for our health to consume the right quantity of pasta, choosing carefully products made up of high quality flours as Penne - Pasta Bossolasco, whose wheats are cultivated by the company itself under constant and strict quality controls.

The tastes, the perfumes and the cultural heritage are fundamental aspects to know the Italian wine, but today we will deal with a side that normally is discussed less, that is to say the beneficial effects of wine on health. Indeed, if consumed in the right quantity, wine is endowed with many properties that have affects positively human health. The presence of polyphenols (mostly in red wine) provides a preventive effect against arteriosclerosis, diabetes, hypertension and generally against cardio-circulatory diseases. Another substance contained in red wine is resveratrol, an antitumoral polyphenolics compound par excellence as it acts against free-radicals, developing an antioxidant and anti-inflammatory action too. OIP has selected over 6000 wines from every Italian region, you just have to leaf through the catalogue finding the ideal wine for every occasion.

Why choose a good extra virgin olive oil is so important for health? The olive oil is the only one obtained from fruits and not from seeds, so it has an important antioxidant action since it is a common property of all the fruits, and specifically due to the content of oleic acid as it has been shown by many researches (the Italian evo oil are the ones with the highest percentage). Moreover it has shown a preventive function against some kinds of tumors (breast, colon and epidermis) and a support to reduce glycemia in diabetics. It is important to use an Extra Virgin olive oil as the disciplinary of the product, which comprehends the cold pressing through milling stones leaving the organoleptic properties unaltered, guarantees a low acidity level and an high content of polyphenols, that is to say substances that contribute both to organoleptic and taste qualities. You'll be able to find a wide list of Italian Extra Virgin Olive Oil from many different regions of Italy, all of them with their own taste peculiarities but with a common characteristic: the genuineness of the product.

Find an high quality table wine is not easy. Indeed this kind of product is associated to low quality or lack of refinement, this can't be said about Vino Rosso Biologico Nero d'Avola 2015 IGP Terre Siciliana- ADAMO Bag 10 Litri. Azienda Agricola Adamo produces a table wine respecting the same production rules of the normal bottle wines from the vineyard to the final packaging, in order to provide a good, healthy and accessible product fit for the everyday life. The BIO Organic and IGP certifications testify the undisputed quality and genuineness. Nero d'Avola is presented to the sight of a nice ruby red, more or less intense depending on the types of the vineyard, its arrangement and aging, has a taste with hints of berry, cherry, plum, in the best areasIt presents spicy and balsamic notes. Serve at 15-18 ° C, and goes well with red meats, roasts and mature cheeses.

Verifying the quality of what we eat is fundamental for our health. But which are the food we have to care about the most? The ones of everyday use, among these the oil is one of the main elements without any doubts. Organic extra virgin olive oil - Adamo is an high quality product, a Sicilian EVO Oil that has obtained the BIO Organic and the DOP (Protected origin denomination) Valli Trapanesi certifications, a guarantee for you health. The olives are picked by hand before they fall down, in order to obtain the lowest level of acidity. Subsequently the milling by stone and the cold extraction take from the olives only their best part, maintaining the organoleptic properties unaltered. Aromaticity and taste, thanks to the processes described before, are strictly tied to the original fruit make the product very natural and sincere on every side, giving it a versatility that makes it fit for every recipe.

More and more people are coming back to dedicate themselves to the home made production of bread, focaccia and pizza. We of OIP want to help you to reach the best possible result, both on the taste and in the genuineness of the final product. The flours that can be find on the supermarket shelves aren’t always good quality raw materials, so they alter the tastes and the organoleptic qualities of bakery products in a negative way. Within our catalogue you will be able to find different kind of flours, from the most common varieties to the ones derived from ancient wheats. All of them rigorously Made in Italy all over the production processes: from the wheat cultivation without dangerous chemical fertilizers, to the stone milling. Why using Italian flour? The flour leader countries producers (Canada, Rumania), due to the lack of sun and warm needed for the most part of the year, are obliged to dry the wheat using the glyphosate, an herbicide that avoid the wheat to go bad within few days, but it surely hasn’t a good effect on health, so that it is under observation as a possible cancerous substance. In Italy, on the contrary, particularly in the Southern regions, is endowed with a warmer and sunny weather, so the producers are able to dry wheat naturally under the sunbeams. To give your dough an unique aroma try the flours by Fastuchera Agricultural Company, a small company that invest in the production of flours deriving from Sicilian ancient wheats, towards a eco sustainable agriculture protecting the biodiversity and the genuineness of the final product. Maiorca Flour Soft wheat Bio Molita in Pietra - Fastuchera Farm, Russulidda Durum Wheat Semolina Sicilian biologic stone ground - Fastuchera Farm, Tumminia Biologic Semiwhole Flour Stone Milled - Az. Agricola Fastuchera.

Did you know that the tumminia wheat is a variety which have been already cultivated by the Ancient Greek in the Sicilian colonies of the Magna Grecia? After a long period of neglect due to the low productiveness, this ancient durum wheat has been re-discovered by some small local producers as it is endowed with incredible organoleptic properties. Indeed it has an high protein value, a low gluten index and contains an high percentage of lignin, a substance that help the heart to keep healthy reinforcing the immune defenses too. Anyway it not only have great nutritional properties, but also an unique natural aroma, giving the derived products as tumminia pasta or tumminia bread an outstanding pleasant taste which mirrors its ancient and deep historical heritage.

It could seem obvious, but a real good quality and naturally genuine bread makes the difference in your both in taste and in the health of your diet, as it is a product which is a constant part of the everyday meals of most of people. So we've searched and selected for you an high quality, organic certified, stone baked bread and we are convinced Forno Astori represents a real excellence in this field. The bakery directly selects from the mills only Italian and organic flour, making the bread using natural starter still making all processes by hand. The result is a fragrant and rustic bread, which will last not only for a day but will keep for many days due to the 100% natural ingredients. Forno Astori has a wide offer of breads: Stonebaked organic Pugliese type bread - Forno Astori, Stonebaked organic bread with spelled flour - Forno Astori, Stonebaked organic whole meal bread - Forno Astori, Stonebaked organic bread with rye flour - Forno Astori, Stonebaked organic durum wheat bread - Forno Astori, Stonebaked organic bread with 4 cereals - Forno Astori. Not only bread, this bakery indeed produces all kind of products deriving from flour and baked in a stone bake like grissini, biscuits, rusks, taralli and so on.

If you want an healthy and tasty snack or give you recipe an unique touch the *Sicilian peeled, roasted, Coming exclusively from Sicily in the province of Trapani, they're at of the base of many of the great Sicilian desserts too. You can find different almonds in our store: toasted, raw peeled or raw with the skin, all of them from Nama Mandorle a specialized company growing and selecting the best Sicilian almonds.

As Autumn is coming not only leaves fall from the trees, but also Chestnuts"Marroni" land on the ground. Chestnuts are not only a versatile allied in your cuisine recipes, but also an healthy food too as they contain phosphor, iron and potassium. Moreover They're a good source of vitamins too like Vitamin E,C,K and B, which are useful for the metabolism wellness. In Italy the most traditional way to taste chestnut are the "Caldarroste", that is to say roasting them as they acquire an incredibly pleasant smoked taste, which goes perfectly along with the sweetness of this kind of chestnuts.

Appetizers are the ideal course to stimulate fantasy in the kitchen and try different taste within the same meal, going from cold cuts and meat from raw fish and vegetables. Today we're giving you a good idea for a tasty, fresh but also healthy appetizer: shrimps tartare with avocado sauce, zucchini and carasau bread. Ingredients: fresh shrimps, avocado, lime, Red onion Tropea / Montoro Onions (second season) or Red garlic from Nubia, Organic extra virgin olive oil - Adamo, Fine sea salt, black pepper, zucchini, Carasau bread. Clean the shrimps taking out the intestines, then cut them into very small pieces. Put some pieces of the minced shrimps together between 2 sheets of oven paper and flatten with a meat mallet, so put the tartare in the freezer until they will be served. For the avocado sauce is better use an avocado as mature as possibile (it will be softer), so peel the avocado e put its pulp in the mixer together with some lime juice, minced onion or garlic (less), Evo oil, salt and black pepper. Cut the zucchini (or any seasonal vegetable you like) into small cubes and stir fry them in a pan with some evo oil seasoning them with black pepper. Finally take the tartare out of the freezer and put it on a flat plate, place the zucchini and carasau bread on, while the avocado sauce beside to garnish.

Why eating healthy always should mean tasteless? Of course we don't think so, and we will prove it giving you a recipe that is both healthy and tasty. It's all up to the raw material you use, in fact Tumminia pasta, differently from most of the other varieties of pasta, derives from an ancient Sicilian wheat which not only has a lot of benefits on our body, but is has also an unique and outstanding aroma which will make you fell in love with this product. So here's today's recipe: Semi-wholemeal Tumminia wheat Tagliatelle - Fastuchera with seasonal vegetables. Ingredients: 300g of tagliatelle fastuchera, seasonal vegetables (today we're using aubergines, zucchini, onions, fava beans and cherry tomatoes), Organic extra virgin olive oil - Adamo, Raw Sea Salt Picked by Shoulder - Cuordisale - Salinagrande, black pepper. Firstly cut the vegetables in small pieces, take a pan and make them stir fry together with a little EVO oil and seasoning with salt and black pepper. Then put the tagliatelle in boiling salted water for 3 minutes, then drain them saving a little of the boiling water. Put the tagliatelle in the pan finishing the cooking with the vegetables adding the cooking water (1\2 spoonfuls) for one minute nearly. If you want a touch of extra flavor you can add some mature salted sheep's ricotta.

One of the principles of our company philosophy is always use what nature gives you without forcing it, because eating and cooking seasonal vegetables is fundamental in order to have the healthiest and best tasty diet as possible. So we're giving you a recipe whose protagonist a typical Italian summer vegetable: the courgette flower. Courgette flowers have been cooking as a summer delicacies for centuries, mostly in the central-southern regions of Italy. They are considered one of the first street food of the history, they're cooked in different ways from region to region but all of them were fried. Today we're giving you our recipe for delicious stuffed courgette flowers fried in batter. Ingredients: courgette flowers; 110 g of Organic flour soft wheat type 0; 100 ml of ice-cold Blonde Beer Ale Tavolara - CONTE DE QUIRRA or Sparkling water and a pinch of yeast, 100g of Ricotta di Bufala (Buffalo Ricotta) - Caseificio Artigianale Esposito, some Extra anchovy fillets in oil Extra virgin olive oil - Mare Puro, Organic extra virgin olive oil - Adamo, black pepper, Raw Sea Salt Picked by Shoulder - Cuordisale - Salinagrande First let's make the batter: amalgamates in a bowl the flour and the beer\water and yeast using a whisk. For the stuffing cut the anchovy fillets in rough and not too small pieces and mix them with the buffalo ricotta and season with some black pepper and e little EVO oil. Then stuff the courgette flowers, immerge them in the batter, deep fry them in frying oil, when they will be ready dry them and season with some sea salt.

Today we're going to introduce Italian pata negra: the Raw ham from the Calabrian Black Pork. Its similarities with the Iberian cousin are several, starting from the race of the pigs, in fact both of them have black coat, that is to say an hybrid between a wild boar and a pig. What differentiates the Calabrian black pork from the others is the slow growth of the animal, this leads to a better maturation of the meat but also to better nutritional values of raw ham containing omega 3 and omega 6 acid fats. These can normally be found only in fishes and seaweeds, their action combined in the right measure is beneficial for our health among which helping the prevention of cholesterol, diabetes and hypertension. Those its have an exceptional capacity to adapt themselves even to the most ostile ground, this is the reason why they still eat (mainly acorns, chestnuts and cereals) and live in the wild for the most of time. The consortium Nero di Calabria has put together many small selected local farm animals with the aim to give the right value and visibility to a product that has lacked in promotion and making of a brand in the past, but is as good as (or also better) other more well known high quality meats. One most exceptional product is the Raw Ham: it can be season up to 36 months having all the olfactory and taste characteristics which make it resembles Iberian jamon, with a sweet and creamy fat which melts in your mouth incredibly. Nero di Calabria products are completely artisanal, challenging the request of complete homogenization and homogeneity of tastes requires by the global markets.

With the summer and high temperatures you often would like to eat something fresh but tasty, Seasoning for Pasta alla Trapanese - SoloSole is a Sicilian typical sauce which is perfect for these hot days. Its ingredients are full of freshness and flavour, but at the same time they're also healthy and light as it contains only tomatoes, EVO oil, toasted almonds, basil and salt. All the the ingredients used by SoloSole are cultivated and harvested in Sicily, so we're talking about extremely high quality raw materials!

Our latest news on pur catalogue of the Orto Mio pot plants. The best quality pot plants on the market to allow everybody cultivate their own fish, healthy and genuine vegetables and aromatic herbs. These pot plants are easy to cultivate and they don't need much space, you can easily cultivate them in you garden or balcony, let's try them!

The San Marzano Tomato DOP is the king of tomatoes thanks to the combination between the mediterranean clime and the volcanic ground.It has a lot of health benefits sit contains lycopene an antioxidant and anti tumorous.

Recently some studies have enlightened the benefits from the ancient raw wheat Tumminia, thanks to its genuineness it helps the cardiovascular system thanks to a substance called lignin which maintains the heart healthy.