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Costolette di Maiale with Pizzaiola sauce is a wonderful way to turn ordinary pork chops into an extraordinary dish. Enjoy with good friends and a little red wine, perhaps?
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Living in a Mediterranean country surrounded on three sides by the sea, it is only natural for Italians to love eating pesci or fish. This is a popular dish at any time.
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Eggplant is a favorite Mediterranian food anytime, but becomes something really special when combined with cheese in this Grilled Eggplant Mozzarella dish.
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A home-cooked meal of Italian marsala veal is sure to impress your guests when you proudly carry it out to the dining table.
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This Italian stuffed pepper recipe fills them with a mixture of tuna fish, capers and olives. Yummy.
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Melanzane alla Parmigiana is one of the staples of the Italian diet. It can be part of a main dish or a dish on its own - easy to make and great to take as a dish to a party.
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Mamas Minestrone soup was hearty enough for a hungry horde of Mediterranean men. It was a meal in itself once you added crusty bread.
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Most Europeans, and Italians in particular, love to eat bone marrow. Ossobuco (tender shin of veal) is a great Italian dish, cooked with vegetables in an aromatic white wine sauce.
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Pasta piselli, pasta with peas, is a good comfort dish and can be varied with different flavors and ingredients such as celery or other diceable vegetables introduced.
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Risotto with mushrooms is a simple Italian dish that uses bacon and cheese for its flavouring, instead of the more usual tomatoes. The rice is cooked with the food, so it is full of flavor.
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Italian spaghetti with pesto is a light, clean, fresh and zesty pasta dish. It is delicate to the palate, and makes a change from so many of the Italian dishes which are tomato-based.
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Tripe seems to have fallen out of fashion a bit these days, because some people consider it to be offal, which technically it is. But from the days where meat was expensive and every part of the animal had to be used if possible... Tripe Florentine style shows how tasty and nutritious this poor-person's peasant dish can be.
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