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Parmigiana
“We are a group of girls” she said ,” do you think we could come to you for a cooking class?” Victoria was the girl I meet first by email ,her job was to organize this BIG cooking class for 24 girls from the UK,Hong Kong, New York, Austrailia, Dubai and Sweden!! “We are [...] 
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) [...] 
Mazzafegato and Lentils soup
Encouraged by the enthusiasm ,curiosity and the desire to test and learn everything ,shown by the new group of students from the Culinary Institute of America ,I decided to introduce them to some of the typical produce of areas protected by THE SLOW FOOD ASSOCIATION. Promoted as an alternative to fast food, [...] 
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 [...] 
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 [...] 
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 [...] 
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 [...] 
Ricotta and aubergine cannelloni Last night on the eve of my birthday, Nick asked me if I had any special wishes . Well, to tell you the truth, I did have one… Snow !!! And lots of it. That wish came true this morning. I couldn’t believe it , we opened the shutters [...] 
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 [...] 
Mediterranean Chicken Hi Simona what is boiling in the pot? This is the message I received yesterday from a reader of the blog! And so here I am to write a few lines about what has been happening. To explain things in order I will say: Cooking, drinking and studying, but let’s go step [...] 
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 [...] 
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 [...] 
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 [...]
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 [...] |
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