What's better than waiting for sunset to toast the evening that is about to begin? Many times to do so we choose the wrong location for the aperitif and we find ourselves in drinking poorly prepared cocktails and eating soggy chips, leftover and charred wraps, possi pretzels and overcooked and unsalted pasta salads. And when it happens we thunder: "next time we do it at home"!

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But how? What to prepare to make the invited friends happy and not to do worse than the bar downstairs? We have collected 30 ideas including appetizers, cocktails, frittini, baked goodies, bruschetta, pretzels, sandwiches, omelettes and savory pies. The advice is to vary as much as possible by choosing perhaps two types of bruschetta, a sandwich, a savory pie and a fried, perhaps accompanied by a bit of sliced ​​meats and cheeses and accompanied by homemade taralli following this recipe.

Something to drink

Here are the simple and tasty ones cocktail to serve a fresh and tasty aperitif: five thousand lire, bloody mary, santiago sour, romeo, alemanno fizz, monk, americano and fruit and vegetables. To prepare them, just carefully follow the indications on the proportions of the drinks to be mixed, it will be very easy!

Our recipes

As for the tastings for the aperitif, however, let yourself be inspired by these recipes: potato croquettes and cod, sea ​​crouton with tuna and bottarga, Salted Plumcake, squash of courgettes, croutons with nduja, radishes and soncino, rustic corn pitta, wings stuffed with spicy sauce, omelette roll with feta cheese and courgette flowers, melon gazpacho with prawns, bloody mary, baguette with crab, oysters and green beans, ravioli with cheese, crostini with liver foam, churros with port sauce, sea ​​kebabs and fennel cream, kalitsounia, cretan appetizer, Italian sushi, mini farinata with spicy sausage and endive, leek and goat tartlets, carrot blinis with scamorza cheese, ham and rocket, tuna and spring onion mousse with olive croutons, courgette flowers in beer batter and creamy robiola and small carriages of courgette with onion sauce.

30 ideas for making an aperitif at home

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