Recipes

On the custom of starting a meal with a salad

  Bartolomeo Platina, a Renaissance humanist writer who worked as a tutor for the noble Gonzaga family, gained great fame for his treatise on gastronomy, food hygiene and recommendations entitled De honesta voluptate et valetudine (“On honourable pleasure and health”). This book examined in great depth the properties of vegetables and salads and inaugurated a

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Our fish, from Garda lake

  The best combination for Garda olive oil is doubtlessly that with freshwater fish: common trout and Garda Lake trout (Salmo carpio L.) are best served with a drizzle of oil and the juice of our lemons, which emphasise their delicacy, aroma and fragrance. Whether boiled or baked, a pinch of salt and some olive

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Autumn pan

  Here is another interesting recipe given to us by our dear friend Antonia Polese, whose recipe for olive drops was published on our website last September. For the pilaf rice: 400 g carnaroli or basmati rice, 800 g vegetable stock or plain water, 1 onion, extra virgin olive oil, salt and pepper. Chop the

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