Antipasti translates as "before the pasta" and is a traditional Italian appetizer, which will normally not contain pasta. Traditional antipasto items include: cured meats, olives, roasted garlic, peperoncini, mushrooms, anchovies, artichoke hearts, cheeses, and marinated peperone (green bell peppers), often with an olive oil topping.
A submarine sandwich, also known as a sub, grinder, hero, hoagie, Italian sandwich is a sandwich that consists of an oblong roll, often of Italian, Spanish or French bread and filled with various meats, cheeses, vegetables, seasonings, and sauces.
Yes. Meats are mostly protein - often with some fat as well.
Yes Delicatessens often sell their meats by weight as cold cuts, and prepare party trays.
The stockpot is often considered a good way to use trimmings from meats and vegetables. Do you agree? Explain.
Because certain foods can present harm to a developing baby. For example, salt water fish often contains mercury and mercury is toxic and can disrupt development (particularly neurological development). As an adult, women have developed strong immunities to bacteria, infections, and specifics like that, that they may come in contact with when eating foods (hot dogs, processed meats, uncooked meats (rare steak for example), soft cheeses, cheeses with mold (like blue cheese) etc.). So while the mother may have an immunity to this and her health not be comproimsed, the baby does not and cannot withstand certain bacteria or infections
It is a preservative, often used in meats.
A bean dip is a spicy dish often served as an appetizer. It can be made from garbanzo beans as well as other ingredients.
The pimento (or the Spanish form pimiento) is a heart shaped red red pepper usually 3-4 inches long and 2-3 inches wide. It is of Spanish descent. Many green olives are stuffed with pieces of pimento. The spice paprika consists of dried pimentos.
Fruit Salad is a side dish, but can be served anytime during the meal.
They are just tiny tart pickles with a French name. Pronounced "CORN-e-shons" Use to accompany foods at the table as you would any pickled vegetable, olive, etc. Serve at buffet or with appetizers using picks, or toothpicks, or appetizer forks for guests to spear as they munch. Often served on the side with fish and meats, especially smoked meats, or with cold cuts (for buffet, roll cold cut slices and secure with toothpick to make them easy to handle and look more "fancy").
It is a large, sweet, heart-shaped, red chili pepper. They are commonly used to stuff green olives and to make pimento cheese.