appetizer
Recipes and dishes that can be used as appetizers.
Shrimp ceviche from Panama
This dish is raw, though shrimp ceviche has a taste more similar to cooked seafood than raw shrimp, as it would happen with sushi, the perfect treat for the sushi lover in your life.
Tomato gnocchi
This recipe is based on the one for gnocchi with spinach; to take a step up from those spinach gnocchi, try the tomato ones.
Gnocchi with spinach
Gnocchi with a flavorful spinach and cheese sauce. Simple, filling, and delicious. Making this dish is simplicity itself.
Italian gnocchi from scratch
For the truly adventurous, you can make your own gnocchi, which are after all just dumplings made from potato and not disimilar to quenelles. Gnocchi are a delicious starter with tomato sauce, cheese sauce, pesto, or just butter and cheese. They would also make a mouthwatering main course if gnocchi were not so much work to prepare in large quantities.
Zuppa jota
Far east of Verona is a town called Trieste. From this city hails a soup that shows how the cuisine of Italy has been influenced by other cultures. It uses sauerkraut!
Italian wedding soup
There is a traditional Italian wedding soup that uses some of the same ingredients as the minestrone. But it is much more focused on the meat than the vegetables.
Fetuccine Alfredo fortissimo
The sauce is the main feature of this creamy dish. Prepare the enriched Alfredo sauce and pour it over boiled fetuccine.
Eggplant Parmesan
This is one of the dishes that have made Italian cuisine well know over the world. Try a few dishes from Southern Italy and you may never want to go home again.
No sauce menestra
No sauce, no wine; this is a variation of the menestra Monterrey recipe; we use the same technique.
New England clam chowder
This is truly traditional New England fare; a tasty and comforting soup, especially in cold days.