Healthy Food - Better Mood!

Hi! Let's come back to Malta! Do you know which fast food Maltese people like to eat most of all? Of course, pastizzi! In every town and village in Malta there is a pastizzeria, a shop where locals and tourists can buy and enjoy the authentic taste and flavor of this icon of Maltese go-to street food. So, what is pastizzi? Simply, it is a savoury phyllo-pastry envelope filled by ricotta or green peas. Pastizzi are the best when they are just from the oven, fresh and hot. Locals eat them with a cup of tea when meeting and talking with neighbours in a village bar or small cafe during a day.  Pastizzi are popular at any time of the day and for any occasion. People buy them for breakfast, as a snack instead of lunch, for get-together with friends, or for family dinner. Yes, it is not the healthiest food because pastizzi have a lot of fat. BUT pastizzi are nutritious and delicious and they have become a really important part of Maltese cuisine and culture!

  Today let's jump from Greece to Malta! Do you know what Maltese cuisine is mostly famous for? Maltese rabbit! Many centuries ago Phoenicians brought rabbits to Malta to have a source of fresh meat in this tiny island in the Mediterranean Sea. Since then other domestic animals have been taken to Malta too: sheep, chicken, goats. But the most favorite recipes are still about various ways to cook rabbit.  What are the most popular dishes? Rabbit stew in a pan, spaghetti with rabbit sauce, rabbit roasted in the oven, fried rabbit liver. And the necessary part of all these recipes is wine! Malta has a plenty of nice and relatively cheap wines, red and white. And Maltese people love to add wine while cooking meat, including rabbit. I prefer to use red wine to marinate rabbit before to roast it in the oven. As a sauce I use cream sauce made from cream milk for cooking, grated cheese, garlic, and seasoning. The rabbit roasted in this sauce is very soft and delicious. Alternativ...