Tomato Passata sauce, part 1
Tomato Passata sauce, part 2
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Poached egg served with truffles and homemade bread
During the last weeks of summer Nicks mum Jacky came to stay. On her arrival we noticed she was wearing a bandage on her wrist. Had she damaged it dragging her suitcase through the airport , we thought… or had she been injured delivering a devastating [...]
Paccheri with Amatriciana fish
Once upon a time in the hills of Umbria there was a “young” lady called Simona who every springtime worked very hard on her land preparing it for her vegetable plants .This year she planted many things including: 6 cucumbers plants, 10 zucchini 9 eggplants and 80 tomato plants. She [...]
Lasagna shape pasta with tin sardines and fresh fennel
After almost ten days I am finally feeling better. I’ve had a bad dose of flu, but for this year ,at least, it’s over. That’s because ( fingers crossed), I happen to be sick only once a year and when it happens it is always such a nightmare for [...]
Crispy fillet of bass cooked with almonds and crunchy walnuts , black olives and raisins. Served with escarole
Imagine my surprise when yesterday, strolling in my vegetable garden I found a couple of vegetables that had survived all the winter snow and frost that we had had less then a month ago, roman cauliflowers a [...]
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 [...]
Tagliatelle and wild mushrooms
The other morning as I was making the coffee ,Nick who had been outside letting our goat Hilda into the field, came running in ,grabbed a basket , a knife and hurried back out . Five minutes later he returned with a mountain of wild mushrooms. Fantastico ! Especially as [...]
Small knots of green paste made with parsley, filled with chestnut and ricotta cheese and served with Pioppini mushrooms .
A few weeks ago, on a beautiful Autumn afternoon ,we went to meet our good friend Fumo . He had kindly offered to introduce us to some other local people who kept goats. Our [...]
Etruscan soup
Thursday afternoon I was in total panic, but let me start from the beginning . Some time ago I had been contacted to do a cooking class for a group of American students. The idea was to cook some local old recipes linked to the region . Great I thought and [...]
Ravioli filled with pumpkin, ricotta cheese amaretti biscuits and nutmeg, served in butter and sage
I am very sorry if you have been worrying about what has happened to me but the last week has been very hectic ( no we haven’t left the hand brake off the car again and no there hasn’t [...]
Strozzapredi pasta with chestnut cream and black truffle
On Sunday morning it was my turn to open the barn door for Hilda and make coffee for us. The sky was a deep blue and the air fresh and clean. It seemed the beginning of a fantastic day. Then all of a sudden I realized [...]
almond and hazelnut gluten free chocolate cake
In ten days time we start to harvest our grapes ,we hope we will be helped by many of our friends and family who will also bring their children, so I thought I’d do a little practice and make this chocolate cake.
I need practice because … if [...]
peach jam
At long last our little peach tree has produced some fruit, fine, large, ripe peaches with lovely red pulp, how amazing is that? For the next week Nick and I were eating four or five peaches a day sometimes sipping a little white wine with the peaches sliced in the glass( very [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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Funky Chicken.
Poached egg served with truffles and homemade bread
During the last weeks of summer Nicks mum Jacky came to stay. On her arrival we noticed she was wearing a bandage on her wrist. Had she damaged it dragging her suitcase through the airport , we thought… or had she been injured delivering a devastating [...]