The excellent Roma based food blog Aglio, Olio e Peperoncino celebrates its four you anniversary today and we’d like to congratulate Eleonora for providing the Italian food world an excellent resource and, specifically, an insider look into the Roma food world.
The mighty Heinz ketchup monopoly may have an Italian competitor and it comes via Mutti. Mutti is based in Parma and they are well known for their canned tomato products and as the NY Times writes, “[Mutti Ketchup]..is properly sweet, tart and a trifle spicy, and if anything, more robustly tomatoey than the iconic [Heinz] brand.” Mutti also does not use high fructose corn syrup in their product.
The Kitchn has a great fennel salad recipe that includes thinly sliced fennel and roasted tomatoes. The recipe includes a yogurt dressing but if you’d like to go more traditional you can always make a classic Italian dressing.
We recently sampled a wide variety of products from the Italian food company Coppola Foods. Coppola is based in southern Italy (specifically, Mercato San Severino, Salerno, Italy) and they produce Italian staples such as canned tomatoes (plum, cherry, passato, etc.), legumes (already cooked lentils, cannellini, etc.), vegetables, olive oil, and a mind blowing variety of dried pasta. We sampled the dry pasta, beans, and canned tomatoes and they were of the highest quality and they come highly recommended.
Saveur Magazine posted an interesting veal pasta sauce recipe made with red, yellow, and green red peppers. We love experimenting with pasta condiments beyond the traditional tomato sauce; one of our favorite is a sauce made with the sauce from chicken cacciatore.
Vincenzo, grazie!!!! I am truly one lucky gal, with blog friends like you. Thanks a million
Eleonora