Stromboli is a dish similar to a calzone found in North American pizzerias. It is thought to have been named after the 1950 film and consists of top and bottom crusts containing a mix of sausage, meats, cheese, and vegetables.
At the Salem restaurant, Sixty2 on Wharf, chef and co-owner Antonio Bettencourt is making Mediterranean dishes such as char-grilled lamb steak with farro, green olives, and almonds. The former Tomasso Trattoria chef says, "This dish has almost a Spanish flair. It typifies my cooking in that it is rustic and chunky, with whole herbs, segments of Meyer lemons instead of lemon juice."
Tuscan cuisine, appreciated the world over for its fine natural and flavorful ingredients, is a typical expression on the Mediterranean diet, considered the most wholesome and tasty. With just a few basic ingredients, chefs can easily create this exceptional dish.
This is a versatile sauce with many applications: serve your pesto with hot drained pasta, grilled chicken, baked pumpkin or hot jacket potatoes. Pesto is traditionally prepared by pounding it with a pestle in a mortar--however, a food processor is a great way to save time.
Ceviche is a Latin-inspired citrus-marinated seafood salad. You can use almost any kind of fresh fish for this dish, as long as it has a firm flesh: Shrimp, Salmon, Tilapia, Mahi-Mahi, white Sea Bass and Halibut are all acceptable. This is a simple recipes because it requires very little prep time: the fish is marinated by the acid in the lime juice.
