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Sun dried Tomatoes

Tomato Passata sauce, part 1

Tomato Passata sauce, part 2

NO food, NO photo, NO party!!

Cannolo with Baccalà

Cannolo with Baccalà

Hi, sorry for the delay.

Firstly, for those who thought my absence  was the dramatic consequence of  my failing the exam ……… NNOOOOO don’t  worry everything  was fine. Done! and now I am ready to face the second level of the Sommelier course.
  The truth is that I could not put [...]

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Buon Natale !!!!

Amberjack fillets in pistachios, sun-dried tomatoes and bread crumbs.

Amberjack fillets in pistachios, sun-dried tomatoes and bread crumbs.

Here we are, this is one of the appetizers  I’ll serve over Christmas .  A nice and simple way to begin the celebrations  . In Italy the night before Christmas  is a very special time and traditionally we celebrated with  fish  .I chose  an amberjack [...]

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A week to go and I haven't a clue!

Scamorza,zucchini and ham parcel.

Scamorza,zucchini and ham parcel.

 

Only a week to go and all the magazines, food  programs and  blogs are full of Christmas recipes . The perfect appetizer, the perfect turkey, Christmas cake … …. what to say …. certainly there is no shortage of suggestions.  Honestly me, I still haven’t got a clue what my [...]

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Discovering Salento

Orecchiette and Minchiareddhi pasta with ricotta forte

     

Orecchiette and Minchiareddhi pasta with ricotta forte

Four years have passed since my good friend Cecilia decided to leave Rome and move to Salento in the region of Puglia. Geographically speaking the heel of Italy. A land  I knew little about before . Puglia is known for its beautiful beaches,  Baroque architecture , the [...]

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Slow Wine

Mantis Shrimp on chestnuts and Porcini cream

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 [...]

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A perfect meal from the Brussels sprout.

risotto black and white

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 [...]

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“Lucky Lady two ovens”

savory biscuits with olives and cheese.

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 [...]

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Not very stylish in appearance ..but great in substance!

Porcini mushrooms fry.

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! [...]

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A taste of summers past.

octopus tentacle

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 [...]

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Can I get the notes right?

pecorino cheese in black sesame roll

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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Olives ,vines and a walnut tree…..

Pancetta roll with goats cheese,walnuts and pear.

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 [...]

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Getting to know......Trebbiano, Malvasia and Verdello.

fish and caprino cheese pesto

fish and caprino cheese pesto

I am very excited, this week I’ll start a course to become a Sommelier. The course  will be in Orvieto. Physiology of the senses and sensory analysis, oenology and viticulture … … Wahoo! Well finally I’ll learn to distinguish the different flavors in a wine. Eventually, I will also [...]

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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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Food for thought :

Marinade prawns

Marinade prawns

While the fresh prawns were marinating, I wrote a list of things to do:
1)  The 8 tons of firewood for the winter are still there and not even one piece of wood has been moved.
2)  Cut grass before it gets so high that instead of three days I’ll need 6 long days [...]

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Apricot Harts .

fish and apricot

fish and apricot

During these month’s I’ve had the opportunity to enjoy  eating 100% seasonally . In addition to using what my vegetable garden generously gave me, I also had the good fortune to have neighbors who were super happy to give me, fruits and vegetables from their gardens and trees. So, as in [...]

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