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Italian Food Menus
Bruschetta Appetizers
From the Italian Restaurant Menus Collection
Maremma, Italy
"Italian Food Menus: Bruschetta Appetizers", forms part of the Italian Restaurant Menus collection from wonderful restaurants in breathtakingly beautiful and undiscovered Maremma in Italy.
"Bruschette" is the plural for "bruschetta", pronounced "brus'ketta" in Italian. Also known as "fettunta" in Tuscany, especially in "Fiorentino" the dialect particular to Firenze (Florence), where my partner was born.
"La bruschetta's" origins as a "piatto povero" - a poor man's food - and its simplicity of preparation, belies the wonderful burst of flavours that come from the first mouthful and the thoughts that follow of just eating bruschette for days and days...
Toast a slice of "pane rustico" - country-style bread and while it is still "calda" (hot) and croccante (crisp), rub a "spicchio" (clove) of garlic across the surface. Then drizzle extra virgin olive oil over it and sprinkle pepper and salt to taste. Don't skimp on the olive oil and only use the best quality. And there you have a bruschetta appetizer at its simplest.
Add chopped fresh tomatoes and basil for what is probably the best recognised bruschetta outside of Italy and also my very favourite. Simply sublime food...
The Italian Bruschetta Menus
This first menu is from the Palmieri Ristorante Pizzeria Lanternina 2 in Pratoranieri, Follonica and forms part of their Italian dinner menu.
La Lanternina 2 Palmieri Ristorante
BRUSCHETTE COMPOSTE
Toasted Bread with Toppings
(only in the evenings)
TIROLESE
(Gorgonzola, speck)
(Gorgonzola cheese, a cured and cold-smoked juniper flavoured ham)
MONTIONI
(Formaggio, funghi porcini trifolati)
(Cheese, porcini mushrooms cooked with garlic and parsley)
ROMANA
(Mozzarella-pomodoro-acciughe-origano)
(Mozzarella cheese, tomatoe, anchovies and oregano)
GOLFO
(Mozzarella, pomodoro, cozze, vongole, gamberi)
(Mozzarella cheese, tomatoe, mussels, clams and prawns)
SVEZIA
(mascarpone, salmone affumicato, olio, burro, limone)
(Marscapone cheese, smoked salmon, oil, butter and lemon)
TONNATA
(Mozzarella, pomodoro fresco, tonno e cipolla rossa a crudo)
(Mozzarella cheese, fresh tomatoe, tuna and raw red onion)
MAZARA
(Grana, tonno fumè, pomodoro fresco, rucola)
(Grana cheese, smoked tuna, fresh tomatoe and rocket)
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If you would like to see the whole of the La Lanternina 2 Palmieri Ristorante menu, this Italian Restaurant Menu link will take you there.
And this one - Restaurants Follonica - is the page where you can read my review of the restaurant: it is one of my favourites in Follonica.
This second menu extract is from my very favourite Maremma Restaurant: Ristorante "Il Leccio", in the tiny hamlet of Cura Nuova, near Massa Marittima.
Il Leccio Ristorante
BRUSCHETTA CALDA ALL'OLIO D'OLIVA E AGLIO
Hot bruschetta with olive oil and garlic
BRUSCHETTA AL POMODORO FRESCO E BASILICO
Toasted bread with garlic, fresh tomatoes and basil
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To read about "Ristorante Il Leccio" and browse the whole restaurant menu, click on this Restaurant Maremma link.
The Italian Food Menu Series
Each of the remaining pages in this series similarly brings together the menus according to the type of dish served during an Italian meal in Maremma: antipasti, primi piatti, secondi piatti, contorni etc, or by type of restaurant house menu such as the "Menu della Casa", or the tasting menu of many Maremman dishes - the "Menu Degustazione".
I hope you enjoy them.
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