{"id":502,"date":"2009-01-27T17:27:56","date_gmt":"2009-01-27T17:27:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/marialiberati.com\/blog2\/?p=502"},"modified":"2009-01-27T17:27:56","modified_gmt":"2009-01-27T17:27:56","slug":"blood-oranges-the-healthy-piazza-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marialiberati.com\/freshsite\/2009\/01\/27\/blood-oranges-the-healthy-piazza-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Blood Oranges & The Healthy Piazza Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\ncopyright, 2009, Maria Liberati, The Basic Art of Italian Cooking by\u00a0Maria Liberati tm\u00a0
\nJanuary 31st has now been designated as “Le Arance della Salute in Piazza” (or loosely translated the healthy oranges in the square) Day by the AIRC or the Italian Association for Cancer Research.\u00a0 Research has proven that this luscious gems provide a lot of strong antioxidants which have been found to help to prevent the formation of tumors..
\nSo on January 31st many of the Piazze around Italy (2500 to be exact) will\u00a0 have tables set up with volunteers\u00a0 selling\u00a0 bags of the oranges and proceeds go to cancer research in Italy.What a delicious way to help a great cause…
\nIf you have never tasted a blood orange from Sicily you are really missing out on one of life’s wonders. They are worth a trip to Italy just to taste them or\u00a0savor\u00a0freshly squeezed juice..nothing like it…it is like eating orange candy..so sweet..and now is the season..
\n\u00a0I remember the first few times I had breakfast in a coffee bar here and began seeing the barristas squeezing thes oranges for fresh orange juice during the seaason. I decided to try a ‘spremuta’ (fresh juice) myself one day and became hooked. When assembling The Basic Art of Italian Cooking Kitchen here in Italy-that was one of our first appliances- a stainless steel\u00a0 orange\u00a0 juice squeezer..so that we could use the fresh juice in many recipes.
\nEveryone seems to be praising them<\/a>\u00a0and their virtues…
\nHere is a recipe to try, if you can’t get the blood oranges of Sicily-\u00a0 navel oranges should do..
\nBraised lettuce with Oranges<\/strong>
\nFor 4 people<\/strong>
\n1 head of romaine lettuce (1 pound)
\n1 can of chick peas
\n1 tblsp of extra virgin olive oil
\n2 cloves of garlic
\npinch of red hot pepper
\n4 fresh oranges
\nfresh coriander
\nsalt and pepper to taste
\nPeel oranges and cut or break into sections or slices. Keep the juice that comes out of the oranges while cutting, in a glass.
\nWash ,dry and chop the lettuce. Place 1\/2 tblsp olive oil in saute pan, heat, place in chopped lettuce, pinch of salt,\u00a0 2 cloves \u00a0of garlic and pinch of hot red pepper. Place chick peas in food processor with 1 tsp of olive oil, pinch of salt ,reserved orange juice\u00a0and blend into a cream. Place cream on a flat dish.
\nTop with braised lettuce and top with orange slices, coriander leaves, drizzle with remaining olive oil adn a pinch of freshly ground black pepper.
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\nMangia Bene, Vivi Bene
\nMaria<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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