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Jackie's pumpking soup
This week has been once again full of activate . First off, we had the olives to pick . Two days of intensive labor . Thanks to our friends and family we managed to pick a bumper crop ( 450 kg ), which we hope when crushed will give us about [...]
A few of the children squashing the grapes into the container. So many people came to help us with the harvest this year we just couldn`t believe it, again we are so grateful and send a big thank you to everybody for all your hard work. But let’s start from the beginning : On Saturday [...] 
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 [...] 
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 [...] 
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 [...] 
Our house outside the village of Allerona
Sunday morning the sky was blue with a couple of small white clouds floating by, it was a beautiful sunny day, just perfect for a lunch under the porch. My day started early in the kitchen, I was very excited, a 6 course menu to prepare for [...] 
lamb chop with wild fennel and caramelized lemon Hello, how are you? Everything is good here. The sun is hot and the hills are deep green. Amazing, the month of May is definitely the best time of the year for the countryside. An explosion of colors and scents. It puts me in good spirits [...] 
Raviolo all'amatriciana 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 [...] 
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 [...] 
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 [...] 
spinach and smoked tuna terrine It ‘s spinach time! The spinach harvest in my garden was excellent. Although I had the same problem I have with the salad … .. they’re all ready at the same time! But this is not a big problem, because the beauty of spinach is that you can also [...] 
me and my friends Rosanna, Umberto, Erminia and Silvana Sunday evening I went home exhausted, but fell asleep smiling. Let’s start from the beginning, as I had already mentioned in Saturday’s blog, this weekend my adopted village of Allerona was celebrating S.Isidoro the patron saint of farmers. This year for the first time I had [...] 
sausage on creamed saffron risotto
The whole village is excited, everyone has a task. There are those who prepare the games, who organize the list of the ladies who are going to make the cakes, those who buy the ingredients for the “farmers “menu and those who buy gallons of wine. I was assigned [...] 
fry artichokes
One thing I immediately noticed when I came to live in the countryside, is the habit of planting roses or artichokes at the beginning of each row of grapes. The meaning of roses was then explained to me, the rose plant serves as a wake-up call, being in fact a very [...] 
small break
September one-day between the rows of the vineyard nestled among the Umbrian hills. The days are always wonderful for picking grapes, adults, children, friends and relatives equipped with gloves and small scissors and are joined together for an unforgettable day. The oven comes on and the fantastic dishes cooked with grapes, crispy potatoes [...] |
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