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Sun dried Tomatoes

Tomato Passata sauce, part 1

Tomato Passata sauce, part 2

”Nothing ventured ,nothing gained “

Essence

Essence

 

 

Two months ago I was asked by my friend  Velia if I would like to enter the Risate e Risotti  cooking competition for food bloggers .  The idea of the competition was to create a dish using rice as the main ingredient and to send in a photo of your creation.

The event is [...]

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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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A Bitto taste.

Vertical Bitto cheeses

Vertical Bitto cheeses

 

 

A couple of days ago my friend Rita sent  an email asking if I wanted to attend a wine tasting near Terni. Wines  from Valtellina  in northern Italy combined with a Vertical Cheese tasting.  Si grazie , of course, I said to her!!

What is  a vertical cheese tasting , you might [...]

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Ungrateful guests

Green Tagliatelle made with parsley served with a aubergine pesto

Green Tagliatelle made with parsley served with a aubergine pesto

 

 

While on my morning run today I met Salvatore , a very fit 80 year old ,he was busy pruning his olive trees. Ciao -I said- would you mind if I bring my car later and  load up with some of your cut olive branches for [...]

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Etruscans didn`t always eat the same soup !

Spelt and Chickpeas spicy soup

Spelt and Chickpeas spicy soup

 

 

After spending three days  researching the history of the use of spelt, chickpeas and lentils, Sunday, the day I was to hold a class for twenty eight American students finely arrived .All young ,enthusiastic ,and full of interest in the food and wine connected to Umbrian history. My lesson was about the use, by the [...]

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Whatever the weather!

red pepper sorbet

red pepper sorbet

 

 

This last week has been really tough. More and more snow has meant we have been unable to interact with the outside world. It’s been 14 days where the snow has completely ruled our daily activities. But we`ve done very well and  survived without killing each other ! (Happy S. Valentine’s day!)

 

 

We do [...]

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More than just a poached egg.

Egg Carbonara

Egg Carbonara

 

 

This morning was my turn to be first out of bed . I set the animals free , fed the cats and let Lui out . Then I started  the kitchen fire and brought a cappuccino to Nick who was waiting in bed. Yes, my Birthday is well and truly over. All [...]

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200 years of happiness.

Foam of coffee with dark chocolate .

Foam of coffee with dark chocolate .

After spending the afternoon  in Rome demonstrating against that wolf  Berlusconi ,  I returned home.  Nick calmly told me what had been happening around here. Apparently , we had our own wolf problem going on.  Our neighbors had seen two big wolves running around at the end [...]

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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 Witch’s Brew !!!!!!

pumpkin and linguine pasta

pumpkin and linguine pasta

Everywhere you look …. There are pumpkins! In stores, supermarkets, magazines, and clearly in all the food blogs. Halloween !!! witches and pumpkins! I honestly am not a Halloween lover, perhaps because it is not in my culture, since I was little I was never sent from my parents [...]

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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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Sweet and red, great in bread

bread with grapes

bread with grapes

Every year I think the same thing: it would be nice if, during the grape harvest ,after we’ve cook our lunch in the wood burning oven ,  I baked some homemade bread with grapes. But, every year is the same, I do think about it, but actually never do it! In [...]

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8 tons , a wheelbarrow and gloves!

salty tart with green beans and cheese

salty tart with green beans and cheese

This is the last picture for this year where you will see a sunflower. At the moment in the fields can be found only wild ones,  solitary individual flowers , away from the regimented mass we so often see them in.  Even sunflowers have completely finished their [...]

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Good things come in small packages

Pasta alla norma

Pasta alla norma

 

Today I think I made the last harvest of tomatoes for this season. I’m speaking of tomatoes good for making sauce. For the rest , in the vegetable garden I still have : cherry tomatoes,  tomatoes  good for salad, aubergines and  peppers. Some courgette flowers have appeared , but whether they [...]

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Sun , rain and wild boars

cucumber and mozzarella salad

cucumber and mozzarella salad

 

For the first time this year, I decided to plant in my vegetable garden, a couple of different varieties of tomatoes, two kinds that I haven’t  eaten before, YELLOW cherry tomatoes (even if they look orange) and BLACK tomatoes . I had the inspiration when I was watching an old [...]

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