Spices and aromas are perfect alleys for recipes, and it is always good, when it is possible, to have them as fresh as possible. From our side we try to encourage this aspect giving the chance to purchase from our web store practical pot plants from Italy by Orto Mio in Forlì, fit for every house. As it is for the Calabria hot pepper, a variety coming from the Italian region of hot taste par excellence, one of those spices that give their best when they’re as fresh as possible. Thanks to the use directly successive to the harvest, the tastes keep more intense, moreover the pot plants as Hot Pepper Calabrese VERY HOT diavolicchio Italico Pot Plant - Orto mio are pretty home decorations too.

Calabria, a region full of gastronomic traditions, but above all the homeland of great preserves, cold cuts and not last the hot taste. Calabria Scerra, with production headquarters in Crotone, represents the great traditions of its own land, producing handmade preserves made up only local vegetables. Among these you can find the Mushrooms mixed with Calabrese - Calabria Scerra, the Piccantina alla Calabrese (lightly hot cream great for crostini or adding flavor to a sauce), the typical dried tomatoes and many other specialities. Also as it concerns the cold cuts surely stand out the Nduja Spilinga, local speciality per excellence, the Capocollo Piccante - Calabria Scerra, and the Calabro Rustic Ham. If you’re looking for decise and strong tastes typical of this region, you’ve found just the thing.

Pecorino is one of the most well known and appreciated cheese in Italy, indeed it has a millennial history as the ancient Greek and Roman manuscripts testify, and there are many interpretations of this product according to the region where it is realized. Today we're introducing you the Pecorino Siciliano. The milk is obtained only from sheeps that are feed naturally gazing in order to preserve the real local aromas, than it ages in osier baskets at least 4 months. The result is a cheese with a very rough crust given by the osier baskets where it ages, while inside it is white or straw yellow compact without many holes. What distinguishes the Pecorino Siciliano DOP from the other regional varieties is the lightly hot taste and the strong perfume, you will completely find these characteristics the Sicilian Pecorino del pastore produced the the Sicilian bio organic agricultural company Adamo.

It is a common thought associating the nduja calabrese to an extremely strong and hot taste: this is absolutely wrong. If the nduja you’ve tried in the past had merely an hot connotation it is a sign of low quality, as the spiciness has to be balanced in order to exalt the other tastes and not being above them. The 'Nduja of black pig - Consorzio Nero di Calabria is without any doubts at an unattainable level for the others, the reasons are mainly two. The starting raw material comes from the Calabrian black pig, a local specie free range bred endowed with great taste and organoleptic properties. The meats of this pork variety give a softness both in taste and consistency, that is not possible to find in products derived from other porks meats. The other motivation is the perfect balance of spices and red hot chili pepper, which gives a pleasant hot note, exhaling the black pig natural taste without covering it. Perfect as an appetizer on toasted bread, in a pasta sauce to give it a sprint or on a pizza paired with some gorgonzola cheese.