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We are proud to present a cooking school
that
guarantees
your cooking success.
We don’t just stand in front of you
showing you how we do it.
You get a chance to prepare delicious
Italian food from scratch.
Our cooking school provides you with all
the necessary ingredients.
Learn how to make your own noodles for
delicious pasta.
How to bake Italian bread.
Tips and tricks for making delicious
sauces.
Italian style marinade for salad.
Make mouth watering Italian style roast
meat and fish.
Discover the different nuances of olive
oil.
Learn how to bake a fantastic chestnut
and apple cake.
Our cooking course begins on a Saturday
and ends on a Sunday.
On Saturday we do the cooking and
eating!
On Sunday we review what we have learnt
and do a fun test to make sure that you
have understood the lessons and are able
to prepare the food on your own at home.
You are then issued with a Casa
Montecucco School of
Cooking award which you can
proudly display in your kitchen.
Attend our cooking school and impress
your friends with your newly acquired
cooking skills.
The cost of the course is € 150 per
person which includes accomodation from
Saturday until Sunday, Dinner and
Breakfast on Sunday morning.
We only take 10 people at a time so
please
click here
to recieve information when our next
cooking school is taking place.
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Eat Olives and Live a Healthier
Life. |
Olive trees are
native to the Mediterranean basin where
they thrive in sunshine and dry weather.
It used be believed that the olive tree
will only grow near the coast but this
wiry tree is being discovered also in
backyards of eager gardeners where the
winter is mild. The Neolithic
people of the 8th millennium were
already collecting the wild olive.
Olive’s were being pressed into
valuable oil by 4500 B which we now know
as present day Israel.
Any deli shop worth
it’s salt has olives for sale. Get your
taste buds wrapped around some big green
olives, pitted and stuffed with almonds
and garlic. Yum!
In it’s natural state
the olive is a bitter fruit but some
clever enthusiasts soon discovered to
bring out the best of the olive is to
ferment them or cure them in lye or
brine. Presented on a platter together
with other little delicacies they make
for fine party fare. The most common
olive is the greek Kalamata which is a
black olive and named after the town
Kalamata.
Olive oil is a
speciality and has been used through out
history for ritual and medicinal
purposes. Olive oil is great for
massaging and can even be used as a
sexual lubricant! Extra native virgin
olive oil implies that the olives have
been cold pressed and the oil is of a
high quality.
Try this easy recipe
for a healthy and invigorating dressing:
6 Table spoons extra
native virgin olive oil
2 Table spoons white
balsamic vinegar
1 clove crushed
garlic
Freshly ground sea
salt
1 teaspoon organic
honey
Mix all ingredients
together and pour over salad.
The point is that the
olive is a great source of health
inducing ingredients. Did you know the
olive contains the highly sought after
Omega 3 which are very useful for
keeping the cholesterol levels down?
Olives also contain Essential Fatty
Acids which the body cannot produce on
it’s own.
Other positive
elements of the olive are:
In
the United States producers of Olive Oil
may place the following health claim on
product labels, “Limited
and not conclusive scientific evidence
suggests that eating about two
tablespoons (23 grams) of olive oil
daily may reduce the risk of
coronary heart disease due to the
monounsaturated fat in olive oil. To
achieve this possible benefit, olive oil
is to replace a similar amount of
saturated fat and not increase the
total number of calories you eat in a
day.”
Due to the interesting
taste and nutritional value of the olive
this little fruit is growing popular
amongst food designers and gourmets. But
the olive also is finding its way into
organic beauty products.
Viva
la Olive!
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