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Roast peppers and goat’s cheese canapés

Crostini di Peperoni
Roast Peppers & Goat’s Cheese Canapés

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Crostini are little appetizers that you can invent yourself depending on what’s in season and what ingredients you happen to have around.
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Polpette di Melanzane
Eggplant /Aubergine Croquettes

One of the most delicious things invented! Best fried just before you serve them, but they are fine at room temperature too if it’s a hot day.

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Zuppa toscana

Zuppa di Fagioli e Scarola
Bean and Escarole Soup

You can serve small quantities of this Tuscan bean dish on crostini, as an appetizer, or larger quantities as a hearty soup.

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Focaccia al rosmarino
Rustic Focaccia

An easy but unusual focaccia recipe which makes a rustic-textured, half wholewheat bread. Ideal to eat with cheeses and salad.

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Small onions in a balsamic vinegar

Cipolline in Agrodolce
Small Onions in a Balsamic Vinegar Reduction

Your guests will be fighting over these tangy onions! Remember to provide plenty of bread to mop up the delicious caramelized sauce coating them.

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Salsa Verde canapés

Crostini con Salsa Verde
Salsa Verde Canapés

Crostini are little appetizers that you can invent yourself depending on what’s in season and what you have in the house.

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Crostini Toscani

Crostini Toscani
Tuscan Chicken Liver Paté

This is the most classic of all Tuscan crostini. Even those who say they don’t like paté love this one!

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Pomodori Secchi Sott’Olio
Sundried Tomatoes

Sundried tomatoes prepared like this tend to much tastier than the ones you find already prepared in oil.

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Fried zucchini blossoms

Fiori Fritti
Fried Zucchini Blossoms

This is a dish to be made and savoured immediately. You can even make it as a pre-dinner nibble while you finish cooking something time-consuming with friends.

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Mushroom crostini

Crostini di funghi
Mushroom crostini

Best served warm, these crostini will have your guests demanding more. You’ll see that the vin santo gives the mushrooms a very special flavour, and the butter gives them a melt in the mouth texture.

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