Tomato Passata sauce, part 1
Tomato Passata sauce, part 2
|
walnuts pesto and Porcini
O.k , now for my second recipe with walnuts, this time I used 5 ..Wahoo. I tell you, It’s not going to be easy to get through all these nuts. Anyway , for this recipe I decided to combine a walnut pesto ( I know I’m pesto crazy) with [...]
pork chop in Vin Santo and wild fennel flowers
If you were to look for our small village of Allerona on a map , you may or may not notice that we are situated at a point close to where three regions meet, Umbria , Tuscany and Lazio. A place I like to call [...]
finger food of Porcini mushrooms
Welcome to the country! On Sunday me and Nick went to the forest to look for mushrooms. The forests of Italy are slowly becoming repopulated with Bears ,Wolves and thousands of mushroom pickers . Every mushroom picker has his or her favorite secret location. The competition is fierce. The prize [...]
bread with grapes
Every year I think the same thing: it would be nice if, during the grape harvest ,after we’ve cook our lunch in the wood burning oven , I baked some homemade bread with grapes. But, every year is the same, I do think about it, but actually never do it! In [...]
sausage in grape
We’ve been very lucky. The weather was beautiful and in two days we managed to collect almost 4 tons of grapes! Many friends arrived from Rome on Saturday and others from Allerona village. The Romans took their time to arrive and of course were wearing super-trendy clothes. So after they changed [...]
CIAO , I’m back.
Did you miss me? I hope so….anyway , after a month of a relatively relaxing holiday, here I am again. August has been very productive. My vegetable garden has been generous this summer and demanded quite a lot of work…… MAMMA MIA. So let’s start: with [...]
I know you were worried ,I know you thought …well, what’s happened this week ,there are no zucchini in the blog????? I do not want to disappoint anyone so here they are. What’s more it’s a double version! WAHOOO. Considering also that my garden is at the moment in full production with [...]
crispy fried vegetable
Clearly all this time my zucchini continue to grow. I’ve already had enough to freeze a couple of bags , simply cut into cubes. With the others i made a new version of Parmigiana, in which I substituted eggplants for zucchini and have frozen these too. But, to my delight, in [...]
ravioli filled with ricotta and asparagus
One of the beautiful things about living in the country is that we have many people who come to visit us . Friends and family directly from England or here in Italy. As I’ve said before here in the green hills of Umbria there is always work to be [...]
capunata
Scusate, I apologize . When I started this blog, I thought to share the joys of living in the country with you, but unfortunately there is another side to the coin … .. the ingredients in the kitchen are almost always decided by what’s in season. So ladies and gentleman, today for your [...]
bbq lamb
The assessment we made was this: considering the quantity of vegetables we produce every summer from the vegetable garden , the 20 kg of beef we buy fresh from a local producer, plus the meat my father buys from Abruzzo … … …. we need a bigger freezer! So there it is, [...]
stuffed zucchini
Zucchini, eggplant and stuffed tomatoes are dishes that are used often in Mediterranean cooking. I had the pleasure of eating zucchini and stuffed tomatoes in Greece and I must say that they were very good . Now this is a recipe that, like many others in my blog came to me, passed [...]
spinach and smoked tuna terrine
It ‘s spinach time! The spinach harvest in my garden was excellent. Although I had the same problem I have with the salad … .. they’re all ready at the same time! But this is not a big problem, because the beauty of spinach is that you can also [...]
bruschetta with tomatoes
Bruschetta with tomatoes is certainly one of those dishess that, I believe , represents Italy. Bruschetta seems like a simple thing to do, and in reality it is, but you must be extremely careful with a few things. 1: The bread must be Casareccio bread, baked in a wood oven, [...]
carciofi alla romana
Fourth row of the vineyard, another 3 artichokes ready to be picked! So to continue on the theme of missing Rome, I thought to do even the artichokes in the Roman way, Carciofi alla romana. In this way, even if spread out over several days, I had a full Roman meal. Stuffed Zucchini flowers [...]
|
|
Recent comments