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Sun dried Tomatoes

Tomato Passata sauce, part 1

Tomato Passata sauce, part 2

Come and pick just pick !

Spaghetti cooked in tomato water with shrimp and parsley sauce. Picture by Nick Cornish

Spaghetti cooked in tomato water with shrimp and parsley sauce

 

Yet another month has gone by since my last update on my online diary .
To maintain a technological life, isn’t always easy!  Yes, to link onto the social networks, download my instanphotos and add a few words about my dishes, that is the easy [...]

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A new and solid friendship

Pigeon figs and pancetta served it with fondue potato and sweet and sour shallots

Pigeon breast,figs and pancetta served it with fondue potato and sweet and sour shallots

 

 

After exactly 13 years of living in this beautiful corner of Umbria near Orvieto, I decided the time had come for me to master the cooking and eating of a local favourite, pigeon!
You must understand that for me ,originally  a [...]

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The story came home to roost !

Pumking cheese cake

Pumking cheese cake

 

Some of you may remember a story we put on our blog a couple of years ago about Nick’s mum Jackie knitting vests for rescued battery chickens who had pulled their feathers out through stress and  boredom.

Well the story has come home to roost !

 

Umbrian autumn views

 

As you know we [...]

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A great idea blossomed!

Parmesan biscuits with homemade black olives, top up with  sweet and sour onion and fresh thyme

Parmesan and black olives biscuits, topped with sweet and sour red onion and a pinch of thyme

 

 

To say my week started benissimo is an understatement ,  this is not just because the sun has finally decided to arrive in Umbria but mainly because this morning I  had the pleasure and honor of cooking [...]

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We need YOU

Chicken breast with sun-dried tomatoes, fresh herbs wrap in DOP mortadella. Gentely sous vide cooked.

Chicken breast with sun-dried tomatoes, fresh herbs wrap in DOP mortadella. Gentely sous vide cooked.

 

 

This year the vineyard has done very well, we have lots of big, beautiful grapes. The maturation is complete , so now it’s time, like every year, to harvest. In fact, even the wild boar have realized that our [...]

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All work and no play.....

pork tenderloin baked in a salt crust

pork tenderloin baked in a salt crust

 

 

Hello, yes I am alive! To give you an idea of ​​what has been happening here over the last few weeks, I’ve made a short list :

1. Preparing the soil for this summer’s vegetable garden  ( very hard work with a rotovator , best left to Nick) [...]

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Not for your average Wolf !!!

Small knots of green paste made with parsley, filled with chestnut and ricotta cheese and served with  Pioppini mushrooms .

Small knots of green paste made with parsley, filled with chestnut and ricotta cheese and served with Pioppini mushrooms .

A few  weeks  ago, on a beautiful  Autumn afternoon ,we went to meet our good friend Fumo .  He had kindly offered to introduce us to some other local people who kept goats. Our [...]

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This house is not a hotel!!

Red chilies from my vegetable garden

Red chilies from my vegetable garden

 Ciao everyone, no I haven`t won the lottery and escaped to exotic horizons (I wish ) or been the typical Italian and when August came  closed everything down to go on vacation for a month !!!!! Yes, yes if only…..although  the second option is closer to reality….. I [...]

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Oh! Susanna...

Supper Club

Supper Club

Here I am, I’m back. The holiday in Sardinia was SUPER  fun but I will speak about  this in the next post. 

Now there’s no time. Yes, because since I came back I have not stopped cooking! This is a good thing for me, of course, but there is nothing more beautiful than [...]

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Umbrian hills

cannoli with strawberries and ricotta cheese

cannoli with strawberries and ricotta cheese

Everyone knows that Italians really like to talk about two things: food and weather! I confirm  this is true and then and to be on the same page, here I am complaining about the weather , but I am also speaking of a food delicacy which I am [...]

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