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Sun dried Tomatoes

Tomato Passata sauce, part 1

Tomato Passata sauce, part 2

Five down, a thousand to go !

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 [...]

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If you go down to the woods today, you're sure of a little surprise!

pork chop in Vin Santo and wild fennel flowers

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 [...]

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Bea, wolves and mushrooms pickers…..

finger food of Porcini mushrooms

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 [...]

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Sweet and red, great in bread

bread with grapes

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 [...]

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Many hands make light work

sausage in red grape

 

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 [...]

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Passing time with passata

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 [...]

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A double yummy!

grill vegetable

 

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 [...]

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A crispy snack not out of a bag.

crispy fried vegetable

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 [...]

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No pain no grain!

ravioli filled with ricotta and asparagus

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 [...]

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You can never have to many artichokes…. apparently!!

capunata

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 [...]

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Crisis...!Tighten your belts. But ,leave room to eat.

bbq lamb

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, [...]

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Zucchini invasion!

stuffed zucchini

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 [...]

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Spinaci time

spinach and smoked tuna terrine

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 [...]

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Mandolins and church bells

bruschetta with tomatoes

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, [...]

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A Roman feast!But no Coliseum.

carciofi alla romana

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 [...]

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