Gastronomy Tours Tour Wine & Olive oil country and other regions. Links Links to other sites of related interest. Sources Where to buy special ingredients and utensils. Ask the Chef If you don't find your recipe.
maccheroni: macaroni macedonia (di frutta): fruit cocktail with maraschino or white wine, served for dessert maggiorana: marjoram magro: lean inaiale: pork maionese: mayonnaise mandarino: tangerine mandorla: almond manteca: cheese and butter loaf manzo: beef (alla) marinara: from 'mariner'- sailor style marinato: marinated maritozzi: sweet buns sometimes filled with whipped cream marmellata: jam, marmalade, preserve marsala: wine 'fortified' with brandy for the sea voyage to England (1773) - can be sweet or dry martino: angler fish mascarpone, marcherpone: soft cream cheese mazzancolle: very large prawns (Rome) medaglioni: medallions melagrana: pomegranate melanzane: eggplant mele: apples mele cotte: baked apples melone, popone: melon, generally cantaloupe;
-----prosciutto e melone: ham and melon antipasto menta, mentuccia (Rome): mint meringhe: meringue merlano: whiting merli: blackbirds merluzzo: cod messicani: stuffed veal parcels, usually in sauce midollo: marrow miele: honey mille foglie: short flaky pastry milza (di hue): spleen minestra: soup minestre: soup &/or pasta course minestrone: vegetable soup with pasta or rice Monte Bianco: Mont Blanc, a pure'ed chestnut and whipped cream dessert molecche (Venice): tiny soft-shell crabs mollica di pane: a binder for stuffings: the soft, white interior of bread, soaked in milk, water, stock or vinegar depending on the recipe,squeezed out, broken into crumbs with a fork. monachine: bullfinches more: blackberries mortadella: large spiced baloney moscardino (Genoa): very tiny octopus mostarda: mustard mozzarella: soft, mild cheese used in pizza;
-----in carrozza: fried mozzarella sandwich muggine: common grey mullet murena: moray nasello: hake nes pole: medlar pears nocciole: hazelnuts noccioline americane: peanuts noce moscata: nutmeg noci: walnuts
oca: goose odori: herbs olio: oil; all'olio: in oil olive: olives; nere: black olives; verdi: green olives ombrina: sea perch omelette: omelette orata: red snapper, bream origano: oregano ortolano: green grocer; ortolan orzo: barley ossohuco: shin-bone of veal, cooked with the marrow ostriche: oysters ovoli: (amanita Caesarea) wild, orange-scarlet mushrooms
