Bruschetta Ricotta Scante and chopped tomato
Exercising and playing a sport gives you a wonderful healthy feeling, taking time off to take care of yourself works wonders and also, if like me ,you love food, it can help burn off those extra calories. But it doesn’t end there.
Twice a week I try to attend a spinning class held at the local gym which is under a food store about 20 km away from my house .After a while I began to notice that the main topic of conversation in the female changing room was FOOD , not just exchanging recipes but also keeping up to date with what and where the new local food event will be !!
But then it got even better …..just before Easter , the conversation moved onto cheese …. I was talking to a nice lady called Pamela and it turned out she was originally from Puglia. The first thing that came to my mind was…………RICOTTA SCANTE CHEESE (a lovely strong cheese that you can only get in Puglia) Yes, said Pamela, I love it too, would you like me to bring some back for you the next time I go? YES, please, I said. So as good as her word a couple of weeks later Pamela arrived at the gym with a big jar of Ricotta Scante cheese, which she said came from a local dairy in her home village .
As soon as I got home the first thing Nick and I did was to prepare the ricotta in one of the traditional ways they eat Ricotta Scante in Puglia .This is to spread it over toasted bread ( bruschetta) with chopped tomato and Evo oil . ABSOLUTELY OUT OF THIS WORLD
I couldn’t wait to thank Pamela, so the next day I returned to the gym with a jar of pure truffles (made by a small family business in Abruzzo, near the small village where my father was born). She and her husband set to and made some tagliatelle with them, she said it was really lovely.
Last week Pamela and I met up again at the spinning class ,and she said the next time she returns from Puglia she will bring me some of her Mammas hand-made Orecchiette pasta,” it’s amazing” she said. I have had to think long and hard about what I can barter for this Orecchiette and have decided on my very good (so I’m told ) homemade peach jam this time………………… MY GOD, what can I say …..except I love going to the gym, wouldn’t you?
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