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Wild asparagus omelette: to be made in early spring – Italian cuisine reinvented by Gordon Ramsay

There wild asparagus omelette it’s a quick and easy recipe of the time of spring. Going for asparagus until a few years ago was a real problem tradition of the season spring, together with collection of bitter herbs as the dandelionwhich was cooked in a pan or eaten raw.

Vegetables likeasparagus and bitter herbs such as dandelion are essential for the body because they help purification and help eliminate toxins. As Chinese medicine explains it bitter componentfundamental for balance of our health, belongs to the foods capable of lowering the blood sugar levelpurify and lighten the liver work.

Unfortunately, the progressive move away from the countryside and life in the city has led to a change of habits fundamental: we no longer live close to nature and even if we find ourselves in front of a meadow we no longer know the properties of flowers and plants because we don’t see them as part of the our nutrition. Plants such as dandelion, whose leaves and flowers were collected and consumed at the time, are not part of large-scale distribution, yet the consumption of bitter herbsever smaller, is closely connected to one of the phenomena that occurs more and more often in our society in recent years: the growing number of blood sugar problems and diabetes. Getting back to know and collect wild herbs and cooking with flowers can make the difference for our future and the well-being of our body.

Pay attention to the wild asparagus card!

By the way, did you know that a card is currently required to harvest wild asparagus? As with truffles or mushrooms, some locations require a wild asparagus harvest card: for information it is necessary to go to the municipality of reference of the area in which you are located, the card will be granted even to non-residents.

With tasty wild asparagus you can prepare pasta and risottovelvety but also the asparagus cream for seasoning canapés and bruschettafrom the aperitif platter to the savory snack, simple and tasty like those of the past. In the meantime, here’s how to prepare it wild asparagus omelette.

30 early 90s that you've definitely eaten – Italian Cuisine

We went crazy forrice salad, confit fusilli and stuffed conchiglioni. But also gnocchi au gratin, penne and rice puddings were first courses that were very strong a few decades ago. The magic of the early 90s is linked not only to the authenticity of the preparations, but also to that desire to rediscover simplicity once the excesses (and excessive seasonings) of the 80s were abandoned.

Here then terrines full of pasta with tuna, tomatoes and olives, creamy risottos with fish and vegetables and the appearance in the menus of vegetarian lasagna. But speaking of vegetarian dishes, at the time we had a more … like-elastic concept on the subject. Dusting off the recipe archives of the early 1990s, we have in fact noticed that vegetarian dishes were often referred to as those that actually contained sliced meat, minced meat and other similar foods, but which were mostly prepared with vegetables.
Here is a fun example, our "Vegetarian" Skewers.

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"Vegetarian" skewers

Another craze of the early 1990s was that of Italianize a typically Spanish dish in a thousand ways: paella. Accompliced the beautiful summer holidays on the Costa Brava, we had a great desire to try again the same emotions tasted on the Spanish coast …

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Rice paella in aubergines

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Italian Paella

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Lobster bisque in paella

And now … walkman, baby carrier and boyband in the background. The time has come for rediscover 30 early 90s (in the gallery above) and eat them once more.

Early Christmas from Bolzano to Palermo – Italian Cuisine

For sweets there is no problem, for the antipasti not even, for the latter it is necessary to reflect.
But, for each dinner on the eve or lunch Christmas tree, the real test is the first. Regional traditions, even here, are the masters. But how to bring some tasty innovation without upsetting the spirit of Christmas? Here then is a review of the first of our tradition, with some alternatives.

The first of Christmas around the boot

Why not bring typical dishes from other places on your tables? These are some of the many recipes that are prepared at Christmas from north to south.