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TOP PICK OF THE WEEK: Creminelli Artisan Salami & Sausage

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[1] Is there any salami more wonderful than truffle salami? Nope! (photos © Creminelli Fine Meats).


[2] How about sopressata?

 

Shoppers at Seattle’s Pike Place Market already know how special Creminelli salami and sausages are. They are carried by fine food stores nationwide, although not necessarily identified as Creminelli. It’s time for the rest of America to learn the name and demand this delicious line of specialty meats. The Creminelli family has been producing artisan meat products in Italy since the 1600s, according to family lore.

But more recently, in 2007, master artisan Cristiano Creminelli brought the family’s recipes and techniques to America.

The pork-based salami and sausages will be a revelation to Americans for whom Old World artisan traditions have long since disappeared.

If you have enjoyed fine charcuterie in Italy and long to return to taste them again, they are now ready to visit you, via express delivery (or your local retailer).

All of the Creminelli meats are handmade with choice cuts from select pig breeds raised on small family farms and fed with organic white grains.

You can taste the difference—even the fat in the well-marbled pork tastes exceptional. Organic spices complement the beautiful flavor of the natural pork without getting in the way of it.

You know you are eating recipes made with skills passed down from generation to generation.

Certain products are simply not to be missed: the truffle salami, made with real truffles, and the Piemonte sausage, redolent of fresh rosemary, are two we don’t want to be without again.

Pair them with the simplest foods—bread, cheese, pasta—and fireworks begin. But there’s much, much more to revel in here.

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    TIP OF THE DAY: Passion Cocktails

    Balmy August nights call for refreshing cocktails, and this passionfruit cocktail is just the ticket. For two cocktails, you’ll need one cup of chilled passion fruit purée or nectar (if you can’t find the nectar at your regular market, try a natural food or specialty food store) and a bottle of chilled sparkling wine or Champagne. Immediately before serving, fill two Champagne flutes half full with the passionfruit purée and add a few dashes of bitters. Then add the sparkling wine. Garnish with a strawberry (slice a notch halfway up from the tip and perch it on the rim of the flute) or some raspberries on a cocktail pick or stirrer.

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    GOURMET GIVEAWAY: Sauces ‘n Love Pasta Sauce

    This week’s Gourmet Giveaway prize is Scarpetta pasta sauce from Sauces ‘n Love. One winner will receive four varieties of this delectable, shelf-stable pasta sauce, which is a pasta lover’s dream (shelf stable means that you don’t need to refrigerate it until you open the jar)!

    A NIBBLE Top Pick Of The Week, Scarpetta sauce flavors provide quick, easy and healthy gourmet meal solutions for pasta, chicken, tofu and anything you like to serve with a good tomato or pesto sauce. Like all of the small-batch, artisan products from Sauces ’n Love, these sauces are gluten free and vegetarian, and made from authentic Italian recipes you are sure to love. Buon appetito to the winner!

  • Check out our review of Sauces ‘n Love and enter this week’s Gourmet Giveaway.
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    These sauces require no refrigeration until the jar is opened.

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    TIP OF THE DAY: Drink Your Dessert


    Some of the most refreshing desserts are the simplest. Put fresh fruit salad in a wine goblet and cover it with a fizzy Moscato d’Asti, a sweet sparkling wine from Italy (our favorite is La Spinetta from Rivetti, with an amazingly low alcohol level of around 6%, similar to beer). The sparkling wine elevates the fruit salad to elegance, and is the perfect ending to a light or heavy dinner. After guests finish the fruit, they can drink the remaining wine from the goblet: It’s a dessert and a dessert wine in one (though have an extra bottle on hand for guests who want more of this intensely fruity, exuberant wine). If you don’t drink alcohol, you can use Fizzy Lizzy Fuji Apple sparkling juice.

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    TIP OF THE DAY: Cheese Kabobs



    Cheese kabobs are a festive way to serve different cheeses at parties, and are a fun family snack (and save the calories and carbs of bread and crackers). Buy blocks of different-color cheeses that can be cut into 1-inch cubes. Put 3 different cubes on a skewer or jumbo toothpick, alternating with a fruit (melon ball, grape or berry) or veggie (grape tomato, broccoli floret or zucchini cube). Create a variety of different skewers and arrange them in an inverted half watermelon or winter squash on a tray, or in a large round loaf of crusty bread. You can also arrange the skewers in a shallow vase or an ikebana (Japanese floral arrangement) dish.

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