Eat This: Top Six Tuscan Main Courses

BreakingModern — Nothing says fall like Tuscany. One might also say nothing says winter, spring or summer like Tuscany, but let’s not turn this recurring food column into a one-trick pony. The point is, it’s September and a great time to try your hand at some new recipes. So here are six delicious Tuscan main courses sure to seriously please.

Check out the infographic below to see which courses come from where and scroll below the fold to find recipes, photos and more.


Top Six Tuscan Main Courses infographic: via Visual.ly

Feeling inspired? Consider cooking up a classic Tuscan tomato bread soup right now. Here’s a great Pappa al Pomodoro recipe. Eat it hot, warm or chilled. Just make sure your Indian summer tomatoes are at their ripest and tastiest.

Pasta al Pomodoro recipe

Time: 45 mins
Servings: Six large

Ingredients:

Two medium onions, finely chopped
Three sticks celery, finely chopped
Two large garlic cloves, one whole and one crushed
Extra virgin olive oil
Three pounds tasty, ripe tomatoes
Good extra-virgin olive oil
A bunch of fresh basil leaves
Black pepper
A pint and a half vegetable stock (make this fresh by boiling a veggie stock cube with onions, carrots and celery)
Up to a dozen slices of stale Tuscan or loaf bed, diced into bitesized pieces

Procedure

Boil a big pot of water and cut off the heat. Dunk tomatoes in the water for a three minutes. Remove when the skin easily rolls off. Remove tomatoes and chop into very small pieces.
Heat but don’t burn two-to-four tablespoons of olive oil in a pan. Saute onions, garlic and celery. Sautee until you can see through the onions — and before the onions brown.
Add the chopped tomatoes and black pepper — and a bit of salt, if desired. Cook lightly.
Add stock and bread and cook. Cover the pot securely and heat all for 20 to 25 minutes, over a low flame.
Finally, crush garlic. Add it and the basil leaves, chopped.
Serve …

For BMod I’m .

Cover art: End of Summer Tomatoes” by Mason Masteka - originally posted to Flickr as End of Summer Tomatoes. Licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons.

Gina Smith

Author: Gina Smith

Based everywhere, Gina Smith is the founding EIC of BreakingModern and the New York Times bestselling author of Apple founder Steve Wozniak's biography, iWoz: How I Invented the Personal Computer and Had Fun Doing It.

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