Italian Food

2 oz dry pasta equals one cup cooked pasta.

No they don't. They have coffee with donuts but the Italian style.

I had some three cheese tortellini that was in a plastic container that was dried kind. I don't know how long it will last, but I just cooked some that I had in the refrigerator since Dec or so (to see if it'd cook ok), and the pasta part cooked fine, but the cheese was rock solid. So anything more than 6 months definitely won't do. (Sorry it's not a definitive answer, but it's something I could have used an answer to, so I thought I'd put in my two cents.)

A lot of Italian cafe are called Cafe dell'Duomo for example. Italian cafe's are named after the street or area you are in. Other cafes will be named after the owner like Cafe Marco for example.

You put it in the freezer with a cover over it.

Possibly it can be made using additional ingredients, but in my baking days we added only a mixture of margerine and garlic salt to a pre-baked loaf of Italian bread by slicing the loaf, spreading the mixture over the slices, and toasting them in the oven for a few minutes to melt the mixture into the bread.

Traditional Italian foods include: 1. Pasta, which can be prepared using different types of sauce. 2. Pizza, which can be prepared with fresh produce; herbs and vegetables; cheese and local meat such as Prosciutto which is thin uncooked ham. 3. A wide range of different types of meats such as chicken; veal, etc. 4. Seafood and fish are also very popular. 5. Bread without butter and salads are also very common. 6. Desserts include cannoli; panettone; ricciarelli; amaretti; Fresh fruit and Gelato (Italian ice cream). The above is usually accompanied by a good bottle of home-made red "Vino".

I just baked a potato at 200F-250F in my solar oven for about 3-4 hrs. Had it wrapped in foil. It was PERFECT! Super soft and moist....

The most well-known white wine from Italy's Veneto region is Soave, which was originally made from Garganega and Trebbiano di Soave grapes. The Veneto region also grows grapes of the Trebbiano and Chardonnay varieties and makes Soave with or solely out of these grapes, which can taste very different from the authentic 'recipe.'

Lugana and Gambellara are also grown in Veneto.

Indeed the term "vermicelli" literally means "little worms", but do not worry!

It has nothing to do with what's in it, but rather with the shape this type of italian pasta takes.

Vermicelli is nowadays practically undistinguishable from the "spaghetti" (italian form for "little strings"), whose denomination now includes a large variety of italian pasta shapes which have the common characteristic of being long sticks of pasta with variable diameter.

Possibly, the differentiating factor for the vermicelli can be somewhat the diameter. Even small variations make a difference in the way our palate perceives the texture of the same ingredients.

Chinese food came gradually to Australia, with the arrival of the first Chinese settlers. The first Chinese settler to Australia, Mak Sai Ying, arrived in 1818, and small numbers of Chinese trickled into Australia in the ensuing years. The first large group of Chinese migrants came to Western Australia in 1847, followed by another large group of 121 Chinese to New South Wales in October 1848. These groups were in response to a labour shortage.

Don't use ricotta. Recipe :

Puff pastry

Tomato sauce with ground beef (Ragù)

Béchamel

Mozzarella

Parmigiano (parmesan)

Milk coffee made with espresso coffee and topped with warm milk. Served with brioche which is a sweet bread. The bread is dipped into the milk coffee before eating.

An Itlaian liqueur made from roots and flavored with vanilla and citrus, typically 70 proof.

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Yes. It must be defrosted slowly when reheating due to thickness of meal.

Yes, you won't get poisoned or ill. I did the same thing before and nothing bad happened. There is nothing wrong with cheese enchiladas left in a hot car.

The precise answer is because they were introduced to Italy following the discovery of America by the Spanish.

Naples at the time was under Spanish rule and the commercial ships brought this strange new fruit, or is it a vegetable, to the city.

It soon became popular and lent itself to early fusion cooking.

The zone of Mount Vesuvius and much of the Campania coast still provide Italy with most of it's tomato crop, although beware of illegal importation of tomato paste from China passed of as 'Made in Italy'.

Here are some good foods that we found: * Fiorentina beefsteak Baccalà alla Vicentina Lasagne Pasta e fagioli Pizza Spaghetti bolognese Fettuccine Alfredo Salsiccia Limoncello Veal osso buco Chicken cacciatore

Balsamic vinegar is made in Modena and the Emilia-Romagna province.

A typically Italian wedding normally takes place in Spring or early autumn, so dishes are neither too heavy nor too light.

Popular starter dishes include starters of mozzarella buffalo cheese, followed by a choice of pastas such as pesto with linguine or risotto.

Second courses feature fish followed by meat and vegetable side dishes.

The wedding cake is usually a cream concoction perhaps with champagne.

Quagliano and Quistello are Italian wines whose spelling begins with the letter "Q." Quagliano is a red wine that predominantly is cultivated in northern Italy's Piemonte ("Piedmont") region. Quistello is a red wine that is produced in northern Italy's Lombardia ("Lombardy") region.

The Noodles are definitely a starch or carbohydrate.