Organic Tuscany Cookbook
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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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Pasta con i broccoli
Pasta with broccoli

This is a quick, healthy and tasty dish originally from southern Italy which has many possible variations (some add anchovies, some boil the broccoli in the pasta water etc). It is delicious made with orecchiette (ear-shpaed) pasta, but any short pasta will be fine.

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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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Cantuccini

Cantuccini
Tuscan Almond Biscuits

The classic “biscotti” as they are often known in the US (in Italian, this just means any “biscuits”). Using the finest flour available (Italian “00” is the best) results in the most mouthwatering bicuits.

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Seppie in Inzimino
Cuttlefish with Spinach and Tomato

The word “inzimino” refers to fish (cod, squid, octopus, cuttlefish, eels, etc..) cooked with vegetables (spinach and/or chard) tomato and herbs. It is difficult to see where the word originates, but it is mentioned as early as the 1300s.

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Panna Cotta

Panna Cotta
Creamy Set Dessert

The secret to a good panna cotta is achieving something that sets, but is still wonderfully creamy.

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Pasta e ceci
Pasta and chickpea soup

This dish is lighter than it sounds, but is satisfying enough to have as a one-course meal with bread to dip into the bowl.

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Schiacciata con l’Uva
Tuscan Grape Harvest Cake

In Tuscany, this complex-flavoured but simple to make cake is only made for a few weeks a year, when the small, sweet, seedy red grapes are around

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Torta di ricotta Italian cheesecake

Torta di ricotta
Italian cheesecake

Try this and it may well become your favourite baked cheesecake recipe! In any case it will be very different from any cheesecake you have had in the past.

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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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