Tomato Passata sauce, part 1
Tomato Passata sauce, part 2
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Risotto with Oysters and Spumante wine
Yes, it`s the sort of dish you dream of, Risotto with Oysters and Spumante wine (Italian version of Champagne)!! Mamma mia What Bliss!!!!!!!! And what , I can hear you say,were you and Nick celebrating ,well the answer is NIENTE !(NOTHING!) We were just making the most of a [...]
Tomato jelly with parmesan mousse and pumpkin seeds.
Unfortunately Sunday was not particularly warm, so although the Supper Club started with an aperitif in the garden we decided to continue on the large table in the house. As a surprise for my guests I planned to greet them on their arrival with a small glass of tomato jelly with parmesan [...]
cooked wild garlic
As I have said before, Italians love to use two topics to start a conversation: the weather and food. To prove this point I want you to know that, first, here in Umbria, it`s finally pouring with rain and second , just before the start of this storm Nick and I were able to recognize and [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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) [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
King prawn and see bass roll served with leek and shrimp cream.
A couple of days ago I received from Susan a link to a recent article she had written on her blog. I first met Susan at a Supper Club at our home last summer and I didn`t know then that she writes [...]
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 [...]
Chestnut mousse
Officially winter begins in December . Not that I have to look at a calendar to realize that . I can pretty much guess by the amount of clothing Nick and I are wearing around the house . Over the last couple of months , the layers we’ve been rapping ourselves in [...]
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 [...]
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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