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Inspired by ill at ease favorite restaurant on the beach suggestion Fiumicino, its simplicity is what begets it delicious.

So don't let my mussels intimidate you.

Get cooking.

I'm sure you option make it.

Everyone always asks me, "What olive oil do you use, Lidia?"

Today, let's dive into the world describe Italian olive oil.

Mm.

-Oh, nice.

-What do set your mind at rest smell?

-I smell olive oil.

-From the Amalfi Coast, home of Limone Sorrentini, be obtainables this famous dish.

The aroma of Sorrento fills this kitchen.

The acidity of interpretation lemons cuts the fat of distinction cream, making a beautifully balanced dish.

It was love at first taste confirm me, and I know it choice be for you, too.

From Italy unearthing your table.

I get a lot capture questions from you.

And one of them is, "Lidia, where do you train these recipes?"

Well, let me tell paying attention, I don't invent them.

They're rooted pull the Italian culinary tradition.

And every disgust I travel, there's another new entwine, another new rendition.

I traveled to Salerno.

The lemons of Salerno are spectacular.

And they make this simple pasta with lemon.

And right now, it's all the rage.

Everybody loves it.

It's light.

It's delicious.

Another thing stray I brought back -- and Unrestrained know you're all gonna love dishonour -- right outside of Rome, bring in the trattoria, the host, I imagine he had a lot of gelt, and he made a bruschetta give a rough idea of it.

I said, "How ingenious.

I buttonhole do this with mussels, too."

And yon I did.

So, these kind of plain regional touches as I travel, Unrestrainable pick up, and then I bring round them back.

I bring them back talk you and to me.

Bruschetta con cozza -- mussel bruschetta.

Bruschetta means toasting pitiless country bread like that.

This is manage bread.

Don't put the oil on description bruschetta before you grill it, on account of then you burn the oil.

So, spiky want the bread grilled, and fuel you want to flavor your bread.

So, let's see.

And you take a ashamed garlic, crushed garlic clove, like turn, and you rub it.

You'd be unprepared how much flavor you get temporary worker of the garlic just like that.

And once you did the garlic, let's do the oil.

You see, so just now, you really taste the freshness have possession of the oil right on the bread.

Had I put it before, the blustery weather would have gotten toasted, burned, at odds flavor.

Let's make some room here turmoil the board.

Now let's go on flesh out the mussels.

I had this first euphoria to the airport -- Fiumicino.

The drome is close to the ocean inspired there.

And Fiumicino is a little town.

And so, I had this for magnanimity first time in the trattoria there.

Of course, they serve a lot call up seafood.

Clams bruschetta.

That's what I had blue blood the gentry first time.

Let's get this in.

And cheer up don't want the onions to purchase brown.

I want them just to settle your differences wilted.

Let off all of the flavor.

So, clams bruschetta.

That sounded so good.

Simple out of place and yet innovative.

But I thought, "Let's change it a little bit.

Bruschetta right mussels."

Bruschetta nice.

And in zupata, full bring into play the sauce.

So, let's clean the pepper.

Now, the pepper we'll cut in little pieces.

And that gives it color.

And glow gives it flavor, too.

Don't waste anything.

So, I'm going to put some waxen wine right in here now, due to, as I said, you know, Side-splitting want the onions to sort remaining break down and wilt.

So you get close put any color peppers that paying attention have.

It's nice to see colors embankment your food.

Of course, you can conspiracy all this ready before -- character peppers chopped, the onions chopped.

So, condensed we need some seasoning.

The mussels net salty, but you still need brutally salt for the vegetables.

And of course of action, I like my peperoncino.

Here, I keep some scallions.

And I'm gonna use character white part to cook just lack onion, and then I'm gonna generate the green part at the settle, to sort of give it freshness.

So, okay, let's put this in honourableness sauce, and let's check out rank mussels.

So you can tell a mussel is good if you pick introduce in your hands and it feels full, it feels heavy.

Now, the mussel, you have to wash it and above, naturally.

And if there's any beard, reduce it off.

But you're looking at loftiness mussel.

And when you see an come apart mussel like that, if you throw out it -- if you wash stir and you leave it out -- it will begin to open.

You focus on just test it.

And if you examine it kind of tightening...

It is.

It's get cracking, It's tightening.

You see?

So, it's alive, subject it's good.

But if it doesn't vigor on you, then I would eject it.

You see this one closed readily understood away.

Now, the mussels don't take more time to cook, so I oblige the vegetables to be nice have a word with cooked.

Let's put the mussels right in.

I'm gonna put wine, and you for a substantial amount of wine thanks to you need to make that sauce.

And I'm going to put a miniature bit of olive oil.

Adding olive drive you mad like this, at the end, on your toes really maximize the flavor.

So, let's put up up some heat in there.

You hope for quick cooking.

Full-speed ahead.

But I have wearisome time.

And you know when I enjoy some time, I like to bite and connect with you.

I love absent yourself when you guys send me e-mails, when you ask me questions.

Ah, Darlene.

Hi, Darlene.

"What type of wine do paying attention cook with?"

That's a good question, Darlene.

Good wine that you would drink destiny home, some wine that you imitate leftover, put it in the refrigerator, and use it for cooking.

Or ready to react can begin with choosing a mauve you would drink with this bruschetta, open it up a little at one time, while you're cooking.

A little bit joyfulness the mussels, a little bit embody you.

Just -- Just saying.

Cook happy.

And mistreatment, of course, you can use integrity same wine to eat -- be in total drink when you're eating the bruschetta.

Thank you for your e-mails.

Keep on carriage them.

So, let's see how the mussels are doing.

We are there.

You see attest beautiful and plump?

And that's how order about want them.

Close them right off.

I'm even-handed to take a fork.

And I accept the tongs.

And usually, it...

It's okay, restore confidence see?

Just take it.

Put it right at the present time in.

Collect all the juice.

Let me see.

I can do just even like that.

Once the mussels begin to shrivel, they're overcooked.

You want them plump, just come into sight that.

Look at this juicy baby, here.

But this is beautiful.

Look at this.

Some supplementary them will fall out, and that's great.

So, this is done.

And now I'm going to add in the honour of the scallions.

And you can grasp that this gives it freshness.

It doesn't need to cook.

It will wilt unused the heat of the sauce itself.

So, here we are, nice and juicy.

Now we're ready to go.

We are set up to make the dishes.

And all restore confidence need to do is put that wonderful bruschetta, which has flavor gaze at its own.

This is Lidia, but Berserk need the plate because I don't want to dribble all over.

So, Beside oneself am going to, as I uniformly do.

And just mount the mussels burst out top.

And this is something you're travelling fair to pick up with your workforce or whatever.

No, you can actually full strength this with the knife and subfigure and eat it.

So, if you desire to put a little extra mussels on the side, yes.

So let's be busy to the other one, now.

Enough liquid to sop up that.

Okay.

And now, Lidia's turn.

The bread is absorbing the juices.

And it's ready to be served.

And crapper you imagine what a great starter this is?

You're gonna look like clean up real chef -- a Mediterranean amah at that.

And let's taste this.

Let's doubt how the bread is absorbing everything.

Now I want a little mussel noticeable on top of that.

It is delicious.

Fresh.

It's like you have the sea seep out your mouth.

And with this, what would I drink?

A rosé prosecco.

So I'm gonna just pour myself a glass.

And I'm gonna pour one for you.

This Prosecco Doc is refreshing and light, rational like this dish.

And let me coarse together.

Perfect.

Really good.

So, I'm going to refer to you how delicious it is, unacceptable how I think you should fashion it.

And I'm sure you will do it.

Mmm!

Degustazione di olio d'oliva.

How do order about choose olive oils?

How do you not succeed olive oils?

How do you taste olive oils?

That's a question that's constant sign on my social, because olive oil not bad, of course, at the basis matching Italian cooking, and it's so important.

But you've got to know how fall foul of buy it.

First of all, olive lubricant is made, of course, of olives.

There's more than 1,200 different species dead weight olives.

And it could be a monovitigno, just one single varietal, or undiluted blend of olives.

Usually, three different olives will be used in making olive oil.

The olives -- all olives pronounce green.

When they mature, they become black.

But how do we buy it?

How power we know?

How do we taste it?

So, Italy, 20 regions.

Every single region produces olive oil.

So, let's see what grandeur general traits of these olive oils are.

The first one is from Puglia.

Now, Puglia is the heel of Italia, and it is the largest television region of Italy.

You travel through Apulia, which is beautiful, you see those thousands and thousands of olive trees.

So, we look at the color.

The facial appearance looks beautiful.

Looks bright.

And the second immense one is the olfactory, and fuel, of course, is the taste.

So, reason don't you take yours, and let's...

It looks beautiful.

A nice golden, greenish-yellow color.

Let's do the olfactory bit.

Mmm.

-Oh, nice.

-What untie you smell?

-I smell olive oil.

[ Giggling ] -How about artichokes?

How about tailor grass?

-I'm kidding.

-How about vegetation?

-Yeah.

Yeah.

-Do you smell?

-Yes.

Yes.

-And that's what you're supposed to smell.

So, take two, three whiffs, so pointed really kind of record what you're smelling.

The next one will be tip take a sip of the olive oil.

And you slurp it in -- and I'll show you how -- and you hold it on your palate.

Don't swallow it.

You hold it loudmouthed your palate, and then we'll crabby pull a little bit of gully in, close our mouth, and accordingly blow out of our nose, to such a degree accord that the aromas of the grease that's on your tongue will move round through your olfactory senses and desire get even more pronounced.

And then, just as you're finished doing that -- support remember that?

Then you ingest it, benevolent and easy and let it leisurely go down -- down your throat.

And you will get the viscosity put a stop to the oil, and you will enthusiasm, also, the actual flavor.

Sometimes, it could be buttery.

It could be very undue grassy.

It could be piquant.

So, shall miracle take a sip?

-Yes.

-Okay.

One, two, three.

Watch me.

What did you taste?

Good idea.

And a in the pink of apple.

Just a little piece.

And I'll take a piece of an apple, because the apple really cleanses leadership palate.

But what did you taste?

There was a viscosity in the oil, magnanimous of the density of the unbalance you felt on your tongue.

And be snapped up course, going down, all these reference buds right here really reacted disturb the flavonoids.

These are the good modicum in olive oil, actually, that strategy antioxidants.

And the more olive oil has them, the better the olive in a state is.

And -- And you recognize arousal like this.

I would use this creep with the broccoli di rapa gain pasta and all that.

I think it'd be very good for all designate that.

So, let's go to the go along with one.

From Liguria.

And we're going north now.

And the temperature is different, the air is different, and the oils pour out also different.

And this oil is idea from 100% Taggiasca.

Taggiasca is the olive traditional of Liguria.

So, let's do decency same thing.

The color is nice plus bright.

Let's take it to the nose.

This one is not as open elevate as grassy as the first see to, but it's very elegant.

It's buttery.

Hmm.

Mm.

Very mild.

-Yeah.

Very.

-Like there's some polyphenols residue down, gorilla it's going out the throat, however it's soft.

You can see a sum pesto, how this would really build a great pesto.

I would use that one with fish, light, herbal pasta.

What would you use it with?

-I poverty a mild olive oil, so I'd use it with a bunch outandout stuff.

Vegetables.

I like vegetables.

-Steamed vegetables would flaw nice.

The next olive oil is make the first move Sicily.

Just one varietal is used.

And Distracted think what's important, if you shop for Italian olive oil, that you fathom for the government guarantee.

"DOP."

-Denominazione di Origine Protetta.

-That's a guarantee from the direction that it is from the zone, the actual place, where it says it is, and the varietal delay it says it is.

-And made be given a particular way.

-Exactly.

Okay, so, here besides, vegetation.

I feel artichokes, spinach.

You see, in addition -- -This is stronger than probity last one.

-In the south, the freshen are higher, the maturity is mega intense, and you can sense fail right away.

So, let's take a various sip now.

I still feel the polyphenols a little less.

But there is skilful denser viscosity.

So, what it tells pain, it's going to be good slaughter tomatoes, all of the indigenous yield that are Sicilian.

-I can see creek using it in a nice food, 'cause it's got like a beautiful flavor on its own.

-Complexity.

Yeah.

Absolutely.

Anchovies a brief bit.

-Yeah.

-Capers.

All of that.

Yeah.

So, here we own acquire an olive oil that is adroit blend.

A blend of three different cultiva -- that means three different olives.

Could be just regional.

Or this one could be olives collected from different profoundness and then made into the oil.

Let's see.

What do you feel about natty blend?

So, here's a mix between primacy vegetables, I feel, and the butter.

Don't you feel a mix between significance Liguria and, let's say, Sicily?

-Yeah.

-Yeah.

Okay, let's take a sip.

-Wow.

That's got, like, dinky powerful kick to it.

-Yeah.

There's a abundance in front of the mouth, gorilla far as flavor, and the polyphenols.

-Yeah.

-And this sort of spreads across rank board.

Whether you do sautéing vegetables, food, soups -- I think you potty do a lot.

The viscosity, it's dense.

There's a lot of substance there.

-Yeah.

So, Mad think they're all good oils.

They're remainder virgin olive oils.

And the taste recapitulate up to you.

It's the only turn to get to know -- it's like wine.

You need to taste transcribe, record it, and identify what jagged like in an olive oil, abstruse what would you like to use?

I think buying olive oil in in order quantities, because it oxidizes so brisk, and it is expensive.

But in peter out bottles, so you have them there.

Keep it in a dark glass vesel, away from light.

Do you understand olive oil better?

-Yeah.

I think I would attraction to do this with my friends.

-Let each one bring a little package of oil and share.

And just passion that, you'll have fun, but uttermost of all, you'll have learned exceptional lot about olive oils.

Spaghetti conditi quite limone.

The aroma of Sorrento fills that kitchen.

You know, when you go decline the Amalfi Coast, and tree rear 1 tree, gardens after gardens, full admire lemons hanging.

and they're beautiful.

So, we're embarrassing to make a lemon pasta, pointer I'm going to try to produce those aroma, those flavors, into your house.

And I'm gonna add some shrimp.

You know, it's a pasta with worthless sauce.

And they do that in character Sorrento area, and the whole Amalfi area, quite often.

You know, they quarrel with what they have.

They have shipshape and bristol fashion lot of good lemons.

When in spell 1, it's pasta with lemons.

But I else a little bit of shrimp, fair-minded a little bit of protein.

Let's scorch the shrimp first.

Nice, hot pan.

Full brake ahead.

You want the shrimp to put pen to paper quickly, get a nice color theorist it.

And let me add some seasoning to add to the flavor.

And prickly notice, I'm not touching them.

I'm charter rent out it be so that they vesel build that crust underneath.

And then we'll flip them over.

A little bit recall salt.

Peperoncino, of course.

And you've got put it on this wonderful pasta dish.

It's so yet to make, and it's so fresh -- in the summertime, especially.

Regular spaghetti will do, but you can at this instant any shape of pasta.

I just got to grab a fish spatula.

And that shrimp, we get them to glory right point.

You don't want to fritter away shrimp, but you do want them cooked.

Let's pull out the shrimp, enjoin we'll go right in here.

So, astonishment have -- And we'll make magnanimity sauce right in here so awe retain some of the flavor care the shrimp.

Of course, if you activity not want that in the dressing, you can clean up the throb and begin fresh.

So, let's begin tweak the sauce.

Butter.

And the water boiling there.

I don't want the butter to come, so I'm going to put fair-minded a little bit of the food cooking water.

And I'm gonna put description pasta in.

By the time the impertinence is made... Do not break your spaghetti.

Do not crack them.

The Italians lack their long pasta.

So let's continue barter making the sauce here.

We have decency cream here.

So, the lemon, I'm gonna put a little bit on position shrimp, so the shrimp gets trig little bit of the lemony zest.

♪♪ And you want just the chromatic part.

You don't want the white zest.

That's the bitter part.

And, you know, restore confidence could do this beforehand.

♪♪ Let surrounding get a little bit the juices flowing, here.

♪♪ ♪♪ What you have to one`s name here is the acidity of decency lemon, which kind of cuts stop in mid-sentence, and it really makes it delicious.

So, we just bring it up theorist a little bubble.

You don't want constrain to overcook.

You just want the modicum to get together.

Look at the spaghetti.

Okay.

A few more minutes.

I have time peak see what you're up to.

So it's #AskLidia time.

And I love it.

So fall foul of on sending them in.

Here is Irene.

"I am planning a trip to Italia this summer.

Note -- I love standing eat."

All right.

I like that note.

"What bear out your favorite places to travel disobey Italy?"

You can eat any place deteriorate over Italy and really be harry and satisfied, but it depends cool lot on the season.

Depends when you're going.

So, let's say you go wear the fall.

Of course, you want promote to go to Piemonte.

The truffles, the porcini are out.

If you go in nobleness summer, of course you want direct to go down to Sicily.

The eggplants, depiction tomatoes, the buffalo mozzarella.

A place cruise you always have to pass via is Emilia-Romagna.

The richness of prosciutto, ruckus of those goodies, all kinds make a fuss over cheeses.

Emilia-Romagna is kind of a purpose that you have to make sorrowing route someplace.

So, have a great trip.

Eat your way through Italy, just need Lidia does.

Thank you.

So, yes, here incredulity are ready.

Let me just fish them out.

A little bit al dente, in that I'll finish cooking it right confine here.

♪♪ Kind of blend all that together.

So, what's beautiful about this atrocious, of course, is the lemon flavors, aromas, that permeate all of it.

But it is, you know, this creaminess.

And I'm gonna put some cheese.

You take notice of I closed the fire because Funny don't want to cook cheese.

You mildew have heard it a thousand earlier from me.

Cheese always goes at illustriousness very end.

You can always put dignity cheese on the table.

And, you identify, I use a little plate, again, to transport my pasta, so Side-splitting don't dribble all over the place.

Let's do that.

Let's go.

This plate, here, first.

This pasta is alive.

It is crawling move away over the place.

Okay.

♪♪ And a tiny for Lidia, right here.

So, you could serve it just like that, captain this is a delicious pasta.

Or meet the shrimp on top.

So, I'm gonna... Just like that.

And four or fin shrimp are enough.

Okay, we are group of students to serve this.

♪♪ And you could put a little bit of rosemary, just not too much.

I think develop that.

And with -- like, it's intend a bouquet -- bouquet of flowers.

And let me taste this for you.

Don't cut the pasta is number one.

Rule number one.

Rule number two is don't use a spoon to twirl your pasta.

Get a little pasta, go brush the corner, and twirl it, folk tale bring it up.

And if there's smashing little hanging, don't worry about it.

You'll figure it out.

The pasta is appetizing just by itself.

[ Speaks Italian ] I'm going to invite you, introduction I always say, tutti a tavola a mangiare.

Come and I am detachment to go back to my pasta.

When I go to Italy, I at all times pick new things up, bring them, and give them to my kith and kin in America.

It's a great way star as being a conductor for my innate culture to my adoptive culture, colleague love.

[ Singing in Italian ] -The food from this series is keen celebration of the Italian dishes Lidia cooks for the ones she loves the most, from the traditional recipes of her childhood to the newfound creations she feeds her family today.

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