Happy birthday Fausto! That is one beautiful knife, and I'd love an opportunity to win such a blade.
The odd thing is, is that I had worked at a couple of Italian restaurants when I was in college the first time, and I love the anti pasto or anti pastini flavor (not too sure of the spellings)
I live in New Mexico within the USA, and the big local thing here is Hatch, NM green chili, well that and Mexican food. I thought I'd give you a meal since these are all tied together (Especially if you end up buying a can of "Hatch green chili").
A friend of mine that I met while working at an Italian restaurant showed me this recipe that he called "Salsa burgers" it's real simple too. You just get enough hamburger meat to make two good sized hamburgers, and you mix in about 3 table spoons of Medium Pace Picante sauce (I really like that flavor) the you cook em up the same way t hat you like to make your burgers, and you have a tender spicy burger. I don't have a barbecue, so I just use a frying pan with a lid to keep the burgers soft.
Okay, now for the green chili. Mostly everyone here likes their guacamole, and it is usually made with chopped up jalapeno peppers, but I like minced up (roasted and peeled green chili) green chili in mine. I make the recipe small because the avocado turns brown over night, and I don't like to add lime juice to it to keep if from not turning colors. ( the knife part is: take a ripe avocado (one that is soft like a clay) and slice your avocado from top to bottom (( I use a large Al mar chefs knife)) then you twist the avocado apart leaving the seed stuck in one half of the fruit. then you hold the avocado in your palm with the seed facing up and you chop into the seed in one firm motion, causing the seed to stick onto the back of your blade. then you twist the seed and fruit apart, and your seed is stuck on your blade at thumbs distance to pop off into the trash)
Guacamole: Two Avocados, one hand full chopped tomatoes, one half hand full chopped onion, one to 2 minced (roasted and peeled) green chilies and garlic salt to taste.
Natchos: half a pound cooked hamburger meat, rinsed black beans, shredded extra sharp cheddar cheese, chopped up black olives, chopped up tomatoes,yellow corn tortilla chips, guacamole and sour cream.
Turn your oven on to broil. On a cookie sheet place a thin layer of chips, then top with half the meat, some beans (from the microwave) and cheese. Add the top layer of chips with rest of meat, beans, and cheese on top to cover. Place in your oven for a short period of time until the cheese is melted, (you can cut the melted chip nachos into plate size portions at this point because the cheese holds it together) then top with other ingredients. A dollop of sour cream is is last along with some guacamole.
Hopefully you can make sense on my instructions, lol.
Thanks again.
), and it's also nice to learn more about non American food. 
