Typical Sea Food Dishes from South Italy / Calabria with the family

in #food7 years ago

Last summer we decided to spend our holiday with family in the south of Italy.
The first leg of our journey started in Rome. We landed in Rome's Fiumicino Airport at about noon where my brother and sister where waiting for us to start our long 6-hour drive to Calabria.

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Italians don’t mind long car trips. My brother and sister live in the region of Tuscany. In the heart of Chianti to be precise, in very beautiful town called Impruneta. They had already been on the road for 4 hours to make it to Rome.
We took off from Rome, drove south to Napoli, passed the famous volcano Vesuvio until we finally made it to Calabria.

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Calabria’s landscape is breathtaking, mainly mountainous with wild, dense forests on one side and the dramatic Mediterranean coastline on the other.

Now this trip was not a cultural trip by any way. It was all about family quality time in the sun, the beach, the 6p.m. aperitivo, and the good Italian meals. The highlight of nearly every trip.

Crystal clear Mediterranean water
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Buddha Beach
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Amazing view of the Mediterranean sea and Dino Island from the house
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Let's not forget the 6pm aperitivo. Selection of the finest local prosciutto, mortadella, salumi, and local cheese.
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The region is rich in typical products like olive oil, sweet red onions of Tropea, and red hot chili peppers which constitutes nearly in every meal in Calabria. And being a land of fishermen, sword fish and tuna-based dishes are very common in the region along with shrimp, scampi, and squid.

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Photo courtesy italybyevents

These are some of the dishes we had on this very memorable trip:

Seared Tuna on the grill with fresh arugula and balsamico
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Sword fish and eggplants
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Scampi / vongole with fresh homemade pasta
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Baccala (cod fish) with a zesty olive oil sauce, mixed with herbs and red peppercorns
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Shrimps with black truffles
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Another typical lunch
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Thank you all for taking the time to read my post, I hope you enjoyed it and I look forward to reading your comments.
Please do tell what your favorite dishes were!!

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this just made me very hungry!

its dinner time nearly. glad you liked them

Looks delicious!

Thank you. It tasted delicious to. It’s all in the simplicity of preparation and freshness of produce. Can’t go wrong there.

Great photos and love the food makes me hungry and more keen to visit again

Wow, what an astonishing experience you surely have had. I love to travel and such posts and pictures are sources of inspiration and creating a burning desire to get time from work and plan a wonderful trip. Awesome post dear.
As far best dish is concerned, grilled tuna was just wow. Palatable and mouth watering.

It’s good to disconnect sometimes @faizan-ashraf. Good choice, the seared tuna was one of my favorites.

i was hungry when i saw the photos haha xD nice post!!! please see my last post https://steemit.com/food/@palmimusic/making-cupcakes-with-children-xd you need to see that children cooking

Great pics of the kids...

I hope to visit Italy 1 day, that would be a dream come true, you sure seem to have a great taste in food @buona4tuna, they all look gorgeous, especially the scampi 😍🤗

Thank you @cryptocatz. Let me know if you do decide to visit Italy, I'll give some pointers..

Will do, 1 day, someday, ahhhh, 1 can dream, right ? Thank you ;)

Wow Those pictures look amazing and The food looks very Delicious. Nice captures @buona4tuna

Thank you for interesting post. I've never been to the southern Italy (not souther than Naples), so this article is very useful for me. I felt the atmosphere of southern Italy and smell of Italian cousine. Looks soooo tasty! Mmmm

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