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ABRUZZO4U
Web Site For English Speaking Tourists
Food and Drink - Eating In (Cook Italian)
You can keep freshly picked Figs in the
fridge for a couple of days!
General Information
If you are eating In, it all starts with shopping Italian, not choosing what you think looks nice and English! Choose your selection and
then make up your recipes later in the kitchen. You could include Pizzas (to be enhanced at home), Pasta, Spaghetti, Ragu Sauces,
Cheese (Hard=Pecorino; Soft=Mozerella), Lasagna Sheets, Figs, Mince, Marrow, Potatoes, Carrots, Green Beans, Cream (know the
difference between cream for your Dolce and Cooking Cream for your lasgne), Chocolate Suace, Ice-cream etc
If you are shopping for drinks, make sure you take the shopping trolley and a couple of rucksacks and park at the top of the hill and let
gravity help you down! We get small/large Peroni or Moretti Beers, Red Montepulciano Wine, White and Rose, Acqua Frizzante (Sparkling
Water goes nice too - especially from the fridge).
Enjoy and Share your Italian Cooking
You can make the Cooking an enjoyable experience if you share it with those you are
with. Learning to Cook Italian and learning a few new Shopping Words!
Do the shopping = “fare la spesa”
It’s a great idea to have an Italian Evening with friends when you get back home and
involve them with the Organisation/Cooking/Decoration.
Marrow with Mince
FOR STARTERS (Antipasto)
The Antipasto: A traditional Italian meal starts with
something to nibble on, called an antipasto, which translates
into English as “before the meal.”
The popular Antipasto Platter which
can be shared!
Fresh Peaches, Prosciuto Cotto and
Mozzerella Cheese
Grilled Figs with Soft Cheese and
maybe some Honey drizzled on top
Figs drizzled with Honey, Soft
Cheese and antipasto
Il PRIMO the appetizer of the meal …
The Primo is often skipped, if you are English, as it can be too much with the following Main Course. Sometimes, a big plate of Spaghetti for
Primo feels like a Main Course to me!
Il SECONDO is the Second or MAIN COURSE
CONTORNI (Side Dishes for your Main Meal)
DOLCE - The Sweet (or Pudding as we say Up North)
Figs with Ice-Cream and Chocolate
Sauce
BBQ Food
Arrostocini - a speciality in Abruzzo! We have a special “trough type” of Barbeque in the
apartment. Puchase your Arrostocini Kebab Sticks from the Careefour Supermarket then make
sure you soak the wooden skewers both ends for a while in a glass before cooking, so that they
don’t char or catch fire! The trick is to concentrate and keep turning them as they cook. About 6
or 8 per person is about right if you are eating in (or out at a restaurant).
Pre-Cooked/Prepared Food
Rocca Di Mezzo Market - At the Rocca Di Mezzo Market (Every Wednesday), you can purchase
some beautiful pre-cooked chicken to take away and eat at home in the evening. You can’t spit-
roast it like they do!
Carrefour Supermarket - On the meats counter, you can purchase some pre-prepared Chicken
with Mixed Italian Veg stirred in to cook at home and eat in the evening. Just add a Starter, then a
few Potatoes/Salad to the main meal and a Pudding (Dolce) for a nice meal in.
NEW YEAR Italian Style
Happy New Year (Buon Anno) - The New Year Cake will last a week or more! Try a little cream
on it as well, but make sure you pick up Cream for pouring on cakes etc not Cooking Cream for
such as Lasagne!
Enjoy cooking at home
The Secondo is what in England we would call our Main Course.
ABRUZZO4U
Web Site For English Speaking Tourists
Food and Drink
Eating In (Cook Italian)
Enjoy cooking at home
Enjoy and Share your Italian Cooking
You can make the Cooking an enjoyable
experience if you share it with those you are
with. Learning to Cook Italian and learning a
few new Shopping Words!
Do the shopping = “fare la spesa”
It’s a great idea to have an Italian Evening
with friends when you get back home and
involve them with the Organisation, Cooking
and Decoration.
FOR STARTERS (Antipasto)
The popular Antipasto Platter which
can be shared!
The Antipasto: A traditional Italian
meal starts with something to
nibble on, called an antipasto,
which translates into English as
“before the meal.”
Grilled Figs with Soft Cheese and
maybe some Honey drizzled on top
Figs drizzled with Honey, Soft
Cheese and antipasto
Fresh Peaches, Prosciuto Cotto and
Mozzerella Cheese
You can keep freshly picked Figs in
the fridge but only for a few days!
Il PRIMO the appetizer of the meal …
The Primo is often skipped, if you are English, as it can be too much
with the following Main Course. Sometimes, a big plate of Spaghetti for
Primo feels like a Main Course to me!
Il SECONDO is the Second or MAIN COURSE
The Secondo is what in England we would call our Main Course.
CONTORNI (Side Dishes for your Main Meal)
DOLCE - The Sweet (or Pudding as we say Up North)
Figs with Ice-Cream and Chocolate
Sauce
BBQ Food
Arrostocini - a speciality in Abruzzo! We have a special “trough type”
of Barbeque in the apartment. Puchase your Arrostocini Kebab Sticks
from the Careefour Supermarket then make sure you soak the wooden
skewers both ends for a while in a glass before cooking, so that they
don’t char or catch fire! The trick is to concentrate and keep turning
them as they cook. About 6 or 8 per person is about right if you are
eating in (or out at a restaurant).
Pre-Cooked/Prepared Food
NEW YEAR Italian Style
Rocca Di Mezzo Market - At the Rocca Di Mezzo Market (Every
Wednesday), you can purchase some beautiful pre-cooked chicken to
take away and eat at home in the evening. You can’t spit-roast it like
they do!
Carrefour Supermarket - On the meats counter, you can purchase
some pre-prepared Chicken with Mixed Italian Veg stirred in to cook at
home and eat in the evening. Just add a Starter, then a few Potatoes
and Salad to the main meal and a Pudding (Dolce) for a nice meal in.
Happy New Year (Buon Anno)
The New Year Cake will last a week or
more! Try a little cream on it as well,
but make sure you pick up Cream for
pouring on cakes etc not Cooking
Cream for such as Lasagne!
© PC Senior All Rights reserved
ABRUZZO4U
Food and Drink - Eating In (Cook Italian)
Web Site For English Speaking Tourists
General Information
If you are eating In, it all starts with shopping Italian, not choosing what you think looks nice and English!
Choose your selection and then make up your recipes later in the kitchen. You could include Pizzas (to be
enhanced at home), Pasta, Spaghetti, Ragu Sauces, Cheese (Hard=Pecorino; Soft=Mozerella), Lasagna
Sheets, Figs, Mince, Marrow, Potatoes, Carrots, Green Beans, Cream (know the difference between cream for
your Dolce and Cooking Cream for your lasgne), Chocolate Suace, Ice-cream etc
If you are shopping for drinks, make sure you take the shopping trolley and a couple of rucksacks and park at
the top of the hill and let gravity help you down! We get small/large Peroni or Moretti Beers,
Red Montepulciano Wine, White and Rose, Acqua Frizzante (Sparkling Water goes nice too - especially from
the fridge).
Web Site For English Speaking Tourists
Enjoy cooking at home
Enjoy and Share your Italian Cooking
You can make the Cooking an enjoyable experience if you share it with those
you
are with. Learning to Cook Italian and learning a few new Shopping Words!
Do the shopping = “fare la spesa”
It’s a great idea to have an Italian Evening with friends when you get back
home and involve them with the Organisation/Cooking/Decoration.
FOR STARTERS (Antipasto)
The popular Antipasto Platter which
can be shared!
The Antipasto: A traditional Italian meal starts with something to
nibble on, called an antipasto, which translates into English as “before
the meal.”
You can keep freshly picked Figs in the fridge but only for a few days.
Grilled Figs with Soft Cheese and
maybe some Honey drizzled on top
Figs drizzled with Honey, Soft
Cheese and antipasto
Fresh Peaches, Prosciuto Cotto and
Mozzerella Cheese
Il PRIMO the appetizer of the meal …
The Primo is often skipped, if you are English, as it can be too much with the following Main Course.
Sometimes, a big plate of Spaghetti for Primo feels like a Main Course to me!
Il SECONDO is the Second or MAIN COURSE
The Secondo is what in England we would call our Main Course.
CONTORNI (Side Dishes for your Main Meal)
DOLCE - The Sweet (or Pudding as we say Up North)
Figs with Ice-Cream and Chocolate
Sauce
BBQ Food
Arrostocini - a speciality in Abruzzo! We have a special “trough type”
of Barbeque in the apartment. Puchase your Arrostocini Kebab Sticks
from the Careefour Supermarket then make sure you soak the wooden
skewers both ends for a while in a glass before cooking, so that they
don’t char or catch fire! The trick is to concentrate and keep turning
them as they cook. About 6 or 8 per person is about right if you are
eating in (or out at a restaurant).
Pre-Cooked/Prepared Food
Rocca Di Mezzo Market - At the Rocca Di Mezzo Market (Every
Wednesday), you can purchase some beautiful pre-cooked chicken to
take away and eat at home in the evening. You can’t spit-roast it like
they do!
Carrefour Supermarket - On the meats counter, you can purchase
some pre-prepared Chicken with Mixed Italian Veg stirred in to cook at
home and eat in the evening. Just add a Starter, then a few Potatoes and
Salad to the main meal and a Pudding (Dolce) for a nice meal in.
NEW YEAR Italian Style
Happy New Year (Buon Anno) - The New Year Cake will last a week
or more! Try a little cream on it as well, but make sure you pick up
Cream for pouring on cakes etc not Cooking Cream for such as Lasagne!
