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 [...]
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 , [...]
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 [...]
pumpkin and linguine pasta
Everywhere you look …. There are pumpkins! In stores, supermarkets, magazines, and clearly in all the food blogs. Halloween !!! witches and pumpkins! I honestly am not a Halloween lover, perhaps because it is not in my culture, since I was little I was never sent from my parents [...]
risotto gorgonzola, pear and walnuts
It ‘s finished! Everything that needed to be done in the fields is finished. The grapes and now the olives have been picked. In fact , 3oo kg of olives , an equivalent of 48 liters of Extra Virgin Olive Oil!! Not bad.
We were very lucky over the weekend [...]
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 [...]
Pancetta roll with goats cheese,walnuts and pear.
When we bought this farmhouse, there was a lot of work that needed doing before we could move in. The roof, the floors and all the windows were broken ,plus the bathroom did not exist. In the lower part of the house was a barn where the [...]
sausage lentils and figs!
For many years, I have picked figs from the same tree. It’s a massive one. The figs from this tree have black skin , red flesh and they are very sweet. Walking with my dog in the afternoon, I brought with me a paper bag and I picked the last [...]
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