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Sun dried Tomatoes

Tomato Passata sauce, part 1

Tomato Passata sauce, part 2

Wish I had a magic wand.

Linguine goats cheese ,spring onios and walnuts.

Linguine goats cheese ,spring onios and walnuts.

 

Hello, the week has only just began, and already I am looking forward to the weekend! But let me start from beginning. Once upon a time……. in 2001 Nick and I  bought this derelict house in the countryside The roof needed  to be replaced, the bathroom was [...]

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Retail therapy .

sweet and sour onions

sweet and sour onions

Hi, no I haven`t been stuck up an olive tree for the last week !

I have been laid low with a bad attack of flu and only just managed to crawl out of bed. Full of enthusiasm, I took a walk in the garden  to check what needed to be [...]

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A meal fit for a Premier !!

Spaghetti alla puttanesca

Spaghetti alla puttanesca

 

Why  haven’t i made this dish before? It ‘s a very popular type of pasta,  fast and easy to prepare plus it doesn’t  need any expensive ingredients. Welcome to  Spaghetti alla Puttanesca. Meaning : The Prostitutes spaghetti . As to the origin of the name , the main theory  takes us [...]

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A midday treat !

Bruschetta goat cheese ,avocado and olives.

Bruschetta goat cheese ,avocado and olives.

 

The other day I was flicking  through a magazine and saw this easy recipe. Nearly all the ingredients I already had. The black olives  ( picked last October and marinated in garlic and chili) , Parsley in the garden and goats cheese in the fridge. The only things [...]

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A jolly big box of Radicchio.

Fusilli pasta , radicchio,walnuts and bufala mozzarella

Fusilli pasta , radicchio,walnuts and buffalo mozzarella

As I have already written a few months ago, this winter , for several reason, I didn’t do my vegetable garden. Not having prepared the ground in time, it would have been useless to plant winter vegetables. Unfortunately, we don’t have a green house so everything would [...]

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No Suppli supply !

Suppli

Suppli

“Lucky you”….. I have heard many times. “Living in the country , among the Umbrian hills  … …. It’s like always being on holiday. Peace and quiet, no traffic, no city chaos “… … …Yes, Yes, it’s all true , but you forget the hassle of putting on the fire every day for [...]

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Discovering Salento

Orecchiette and Minchiareddhi pasta with ricotta forte

     

Orecchiette and Minchiareddhi pasta with ricotta forte

Four years have passed since my good friend Cecilia decided to leave Rome and move to Salento in the region of Puglia. Geographically speaking the heel of Italy. A land  I knew little about before . Puglia is known for its beautiful beaches,  Baroque architecture , the [...]

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A warm reminder.

green tomatoes chutney

green tomatoes chutney

I am always very sad when the time comes to remove the last plants from my vegetable  garden : tomatoes, peppers and chilies, all planted during the spring. The plants are now dry and sad, with only their last fruits. In shock from the cold, not really able to fully mature, [...]

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“Lucky Lady two ovens”

savory biscuits with olives and cheese.

savory biscuits with olives and cheese.

 I like all types of biscuit: with nuts, with chocolate…but the idea of savory , I find much more fun to do. This is my third experiment with savory  biscuits and I apologize in advance…because  I really think there will be many others in the future.

 Perhaps because they [...]

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Green for hope !

spinach and ricotta cheese gnocchi

spinach and ricotta cheese gnocchi

While I was making these gnocchi, a big storm with wind and rain came crushing down outside my window. The fireplace was on, and although it was only early afternoon it seemed late at night. So in my kitchen the atmosphere was quite depressing . To make matters worse [...]

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Not very stylish in appearance ..but great in substance!

Porcini mushrooms fry.

Porcini mushrooms fry.

 We drove an eight hour round trip from Umbria to Abruzzo. The olive harvest was good, my parents  produced 58 liters of  EVO oil. MAMMA MIA  with all this olive oil we could probably  shower in it! Nick and I  also received a wonderful gift … 2 young  Ascolana Olive trees! [...]

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Can I get the notes right?

pecorino cheese in black sesame roll

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 [...]

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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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Inside , outside , underneath and on top.

risotto gorgonzola, pear and walnuts

risotto gorgonzola, pear and walnuts

It ‘s finished!  Everything that needed to be done in the fields is finished. The grapes  and now the olives have been picked. In fact , 3oo kg of olives , an equivalent  of 48 liters of Extra Virgin Olive Oil!! Not bad.

We were very lucky over the weekend [...]

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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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