Italian Cime di Rapa

Scarola Salad is a special type of Italian fresh salad, which has large and waved leaves, really tender with refreshing bitter taste. It is one of the salad varieties that is rich in nutrients such as Iron, Calcium, Phosphorus and Vitamin A.

Catalogna Cicoria is a late fall early winter chicory which originated on the Catalonia coastline of Lazio. The heads of chicory are characterized by an elongated shape, light green stems and dandelion shaped leaves. Often used as a traditional ingredient in the Roman salad called by the same name, they are prepared with the leaves stripped and the shoots soaked in cold water...

Signature Italian Basil - perfect to be used in conjunction with our datterini and mozzarella or perhaps in your recipes. The green in our flag!

Italian Red Onions from Tropea have a sweet taste which is especially enhanced when softened while cooking with butter . Red Onions Crostini: a simple, tasty recipe! Take some Red Onions and butter, cook them together until the butter has melted and the onions are gently frying. Just add some double cream and put on some grilled bread. A mouthwatering recipe not to be...

Fresh Italian garlic to give taste and flavour to your dishes. Ideal for use in cooking and on bread to make delicious bruschetta: just take a slice of bread, grill it and rub with some garlic; add salt and extra-virgin olive oil. If you want you could even add a slice of Lardo di Colonnata.

Carrots from Italy.

Potatoes from Italy

Sicilian Heirloom Tomatoes

Awesome flavoursome tomatoes! A selection of 'Oxheart type', later maturing, producing large, meaty fruits about 200gm in weight. Fruits are deep, ox heart shaped, with rounded base, ribbed and ripen to an orangey-red colour. The flesh is meaty, ideal for slicing and of superb flavour. Excellent as salad tomatoes, lightly drizzled with EV Olive Oil, Basil leaves, salt & pepper. Or stuffed...

Fresh pomodorini directly from Italy. Small, full of flavour cherry tomatoes ideal to eat with pasta in a homemade fresh sauce or as in the 'Caprese' salad: on top of buffalo mozzarella.

So called for their similarity to dates in terms of sweetness and shape, these tomatoes are delicious and have a wonderful inviting aroma.

Yellow Peppers from Italy, ideal to prepare salads or sauces or your "peperonata", especially if combined to our red peppers. Fresh and real.

These are "carciofi romaneschi" i.e. Artichokes roman style, with a purplish color and an amazingly strong taste.

Courgettes from Italy. Wonderful grilled or used to make pasta sauces. Seasonal product - It may change the color that varies from dark-skinned to light-skinned depending on the season

Fresh Aubergines (Eggplant) from Italy. Wonderful if grilled or as part of a rich pasta sauce. Of course the main ingredient in the delicious melanzana alla parmigiana. Longer shaped compared to the round smaller aubergines that you can buy at Nifeislife.

Round aubergines

Yellow Peppers from Italy, ideal to prepare salads or sauces or your "peperonata", especially if combined to our yellow peppers. Fresh and real.

Fresh Italian Fennel, good for salads and Italian 'Pinzimonio' (Crudite'): a mix of fresh carrots, fennels and celeries, seasoned with Extra Virgin Olive Oil and salt.

Pioppini Mushrooms grow in Autumn, clustered in little groups in and around the bottom of both broadleaf and conifer trees. The head, in its initial phase of growth resembles the top of a nail, from which it takes the name little nail. The colour depends on the tree where it is found.

A wonderful Italian pumpkin, made our way. Perfect to be cooked in soups, tarts, cakes, pies or perhaps just on its own baked in the oven. With a very interesting shape (perfect for Halloween decorating in comparison to all of your orange ones!)

Cauliflower from Italy

A vibrant crips greens, with intense mineral notes, Monk's Beard goes by many names - Barba dei frati or agretti, friar's or monk's beard. It is a delicious Mediterranean plant, mainly cultivated in Sicily, Spain and Northern Africa. It might look very much like chives, but the taste is more akin to spinach, because of its rich mineral notes. Barba dei frati though is tarter and has a...