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Tomato Passata sauce, part 1

Tomato Passata sauce, part 2

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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A warm reminder.

green tomatoes chutney

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, [...]

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A penance in Venice.

spaghetti with clams

  

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  , [...]

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Slowly, slowly does it.

lamb and chestnuts stew.

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 [...]

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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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The great Kaki debate.

lamb and kaki sauce

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 [...]

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Green for hope !

spinach and ricotta cheese gnocchi

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 [...]

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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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Gone picking !!!!!

bread and fresly pressed olive oil

 

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 [...]

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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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