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BREAD
THE PASTA
The paste is prepared mixing wheat flour and water (sometimes eggs) and left to dry
for a couple of hours. There are several types of pasta. Typical are the cavatelli, like
gnocchi, sunken to a finger, two, three or four, and served with beans or tomato sauce
with fresh basil and with the addition of cacioricotta or asparagus, and the orecchiette
usually seasoned with tomato sauce, are also the famous fusilli so called because are
been worked with an iron thin. Lagana like the noodles but larger and thicker, are
prepared with chickpeas flavored with garlic, chilli or cotich of pig. Other type of
pastas are cooked with legumes (lentils, beans, peas, chick peas, beans), with
vegetables or tomato sauce
OTHER PRODUCTS
The hot pepper is used mostly in winter, in summer you prefer the cool, dry those
peppers fried in oil and plenty to make them crispy, with scrambled eggs, or are used
to winter boiled with salt cod.
Very special are the Lampascioni, wild onions by taste bitter that are eaten cooked
with raw oil, or fried in batter.