Tomato Passata sauce, part 1
Tomato Passata sauce, part 2
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Mantis Shrimp on chestnuts and Porcini cream
On Saturday afternoon Orvieto was celebrating SLOW WINE . A wonderful movement, which seeks to find wines that are not mass produced and that are healthier , tastier and better for the environment. The event hosted 40 different wineries from all over Umbria . With the prospect [...]
risotto black and white
Finally the weekend. Everything was planned. Cocktails in one of Romes more swanky bars, followed by a quick limousine ride to a waiting jet and dinner on the Almalfi coast …… O.k , back to reality!
After tasting three wines during the Sommelier course in Orvieto, I was at home [...]
green tomatoes chutney
I am always very sad when the time comes to remove the last plants from my vegetable garden : tomatoes, peppers and chilies, all planted during the spring. The plants are now dry and sad, with only their last fruits. In shock from the cold, not really able to fully mature, [...]
spaghetti with clams
At about 7 p.m. we spoke on the phone, he was in a nice bar near the old fish market drinking an aperitif accompanied by wonderful appetizers. He said they were all very, very good … …. I was furious, me too..me too, I thought!
Last week Nick went to Venice , [...]
lamb and chestnuts stew.
WAAHHHOOO , here she is ,straight from UK, welcome to the Slow Cooker! Ok maybe you will say to me … .. and so what, I’ve had one for years, even my grandmother used it !!!!!. I know , in a big part of the world the Slow cooker is [...]
savory biscuits with olives and cheese.
I like all types of biscuit: with nuts, with chocolate…but the idea of savory , I find much more fun to do. This is my third experiment with savory biscuits and I apologize in advance…because I really think there will be many others in the future.
Perhaps because they [...]
lamb and kaki sauce
I don’t know how many of you like Persimmon fruit ( actually we call it Kaki) … among the people I know , the feelings are mixed. There are: fans of mature kaki, fans of super ripe kaki, others that prefer it when it’s still a little unripe and hard [...]
spinach and ricotta cheese gnocchi
While I was making these gnocchi, a big storm with wind and rain came crushing down outside my window. The fireplace was on, and although it was only early afternoon it seemed late at night. So in my kitchen the atmosphere was quite depressing . To make matters worse [...]
Porcini mushrooms fry.
We drove an eight hour round trip from Umbria to Abruzzo. The olive harvest was good, my parents produced 58 liters of EVO oil. MAMMA MIA with all this olive oil we could probably shower in it! Nick and I also received a wonderful gift … 2 young Ascolana Olive trees! [...]
bread and freshly pressed olive oil
With these olives it never seems to end! As you surely remember a couple of weeks ago we made our olive harvest. Then, with great satisfaction for two weeks we’ve been watching everyone from the Allerona village picking theirs . I say satisfaction because clearly ,when you know that your work is [...]
octopus tentacle
Octopus tentacle. So maybe you’ll wonder . … what happened to the rest of the octopus, he ran away? No, the rest we had in a very tastey sugo (sauce). With the sun shinning and this antipasto on the table, the only thing missing was the sound of the waves to bring [...]
pecorino cheese in black sesame roll
This weekend I was a very good student!! But let start from the beginning. Do you remember that not long ago, I wrote about the course as a sommelier? OOhh..AAHH .. yes indeed, you’ll say … how is it going? So, I would say that I am [...]
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