Zucchini pasta alla Puttanesca
Ok, now this is probably going to come as a surprise to some people, but did you know that puttanesca literally means prostitute in Italian!? Thus, "alla puttanesca" means "whore's pasta" - shocking, I know!
The dish, however, is actually just a bunch of leftovers from the Italian kitchen - like Bubble and Squeak in England, Pytt i panna in Sweden or good ole Hash in the United States. According to one story, some diners entered a restaurant on the Island of Ischia just as it was about ...
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Cashew ricotta and spinach cannelloni
When we think of Italian food, many of us think pasta (or yes, pizza, of course!). At first, you might not think that pasta would be an issue in a plant-based diet, but that isn't really the case. While normal, dry pasta is almost always 100% plant-based, fresh pasta contains eggs. I know a lot of people consider fresh pasta to be superior, but in many dishes that doesn't really need to the case, and well, dry pasta is a whole lot cheaper!
As a kid, I always loved ravioli. Ah, man it ...
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