Tomato Passata sauce, part 1
Tomato Passata sauce, part 2
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Homemade Ravioli filled with a jelly pecorino cheese and served with broad beans, drops of honey and a crunchy corn pastry
In the middle of last week I discovered that a big and important exhibition / display was to be held at the weekend in a village near us. This was to be a [...]

Lumachelle
Last weekend Orvieto hosted a big event called “OFF” (Orvieto Food Festival ). It was advertised everywhere, even in the Vanity Far and Style Magazine! The idea was for Orvieto to show to as many people as possible all the good food and wine that is produced here. Along with tours, wine tasting and lots [...]

Cacio & Pepe
Cacio e Pepe is a real traditional Roman pasta dish . Most Italians have heard of it , but very few know exactly how it’s made. Quick and simple it uses only 3 ingredients , Extra virgin olive oil , pecorino Romano cheese and of course black pepper. A real example [...]

Wild fennel foam and Baccalà
Ciao thought I’d keep you updated on a few things that are happening here in Umbria and specifically in my little farm house.
Firstly ,after having to deprive our goat Hilda of the company of two out of three of her room mates ( the chickens ), we decided to take on another two chicks [...]
Bruschetta figs, pecorino cheese, hazelunts and prosciutto.
With the great success of the ravioli dish I made the other day , I thought it would be a terrible shame not to use the same ingredients: figs, hazelnuts and Pecorino cheese for another recipe and came up with the idea of a FAST appetizer ,because [...]

Ravioli stuffed with figs, pecorino cheese and chopped hazelnuts.
Before anything else, I have an important announcement to make . Hilda our goat is back home after the terrible drama of last week .We had brought her to our garden eight years ago with the idea that she would solve the problem of keeping [...]

polenta pecorino cheese and peach.
“Good morning to you my lovely wife” he said “should I wait in the bed ?” ” No it’s my turn,” I said “Come on I really don`t fancy doing it today, if you bring the cappuccino up this morning, I will do it for three consecutive morning ” [...]

Raviolo all'amatriciana
Do you know what? Eventually it rained!
However, the first Sunday lunch of our Sagraincasa Supper Club went very well anyway . All ladies and all very nice. They were in Umbria for a hen party weekend . Lunch began with a nice cocktail under the porch in the garden, many small [...]

pecorino cheese with chili honey
Sometimes there is no need to slave away to make a great appetizer. First class tasty ingredients will make it for you : fat black olives, slices of salami (even better if it is wild boar salami) and mature pecorino cheese, accompanied, if possible, with a chili honey , [...]

Bucatini all'amatriciana
Ciao, how are you? I hope you all had a good time during these holidays.
Me? I am good thanks and with great satisfaction I can also say , that TODAY begins the second year of the Sagra In Casa project. One year spent between pans and pots, pictures and small stories [...]

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 [...]

finger food of Cacio e Pepe
In Italy we say – NON TUTTE LE CIAMBELLE ESCONO CON L BUCO – which literally means – not all donuts come with a hole in the middle. The meaning is obviously, that things do not always come out as you wish. Do you have this saying, in [...]

broad beans and pecorino cheese
May has started and you can all ready see in all the vegetable gardens of the more precise old farmers, lush and beautiful broad beans. But if, as in my case, you had not prepared your vegetable patch in time to plant broad beans ,… .., then you [...]
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A bit Psycho!
Homemade Ravioli filled with a jelly pecorino cheese and served with broad beans, drops of honey and a crunchy corn pastry
In the middle of last week I discovered that a big and important exhibition / display was to be held at the weekend in a village near us. This was to be a [...]