FOOD

Italy is a country made up of a lot of regions which are different in traditions, weather and geographic configuration; these characteristics influence the Italian cuisine which is in fact different from region to ragion. Rice, pasta, meat, vegetables and fruits are typical products of the Italian sail, and fish is a a product of the Italian sea; these are the main ingredients of the most important Mediterranean diet dishes.

In these articles we are going to inspect the Lombard cuisine which is one of most complete cook in Italy. It is a winter cookery, colourful and very nutrious, it's principally composed by rice, pasta, polenta and pork mean. The fish is utilised in less quantity; in fact even though Lombardia has got many rivers and cokes, they are threatened by poblution and so the fish is caught reseced in other regions; but it's however changed by frogs and slugs. Vegetables and fruits are presented in big quantity; butter, oil and salt are typically used for seasoning. It's typical of Lombardia to finish the meal with a variety of cheeses in the region. Among the thousands of produced good recepes we have chosen three, the most representative of our region:

1) CASSOEULA;
2) TIRAMISU'.

CASSOEULA

Ingredients for four people:
- 20 gr celery - 160 gr bacon - 50 gr carots - 40 gr butter - 40 gr onion - 8 pig cutlet - 4 small salami - 4 pork rinds - 1 cabbage - vegetable broth - salt and pepper.

Preparation:
Cut the pig cutlets into pieces ten cms long and sautè them for 15 minutes.
Cook the small salami in boiling water for 15 minutes. Cut the rinds into squares of 6 cms and cook them in the boiling water with a little salt . Boil the bacon in water , dry it and cut it into pieces of 4 mms.
Clean the cabbage, cut the remainder and sautè it. With the butter brown the ground carots, celery and onion; add the cabbage, the pig cutlets, the bacon with the vegetable broth; cover and cook it for about 1 hours and 30 minutes.

TIRAMISU'

Ingredients for four people:
- 400 gr softly biscuits (like for example "savoiardi" )- coffee cold and with no sugar - 500 gr softly cheese "mascarpone"- 200gr sugar - 2 eggs - (one glass of marsala).

Preparation:
Make coffee and let it cool down mix the egg yolks with the sugar and with a wooden spoon.
Add "mascarpone" and continue mixing. Add the egg whites beat them to a froth.
Put biscuits and cream in alternating layers into a bowl or a pan.
The last layer of cream couled be garnished as you prefer.
(Variants: instead of coffee you can use marsala or another liquors diluited with water. You can also make cream with pudding of cacao and vanilla.)

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