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Sun dried Tomatoes

Tomato Passata sauce, part 1

Tomato Passata sauce, part 2

A bit Psycho!

Homemade Ravioli filled with a jelly pecorino cheese and served with  broad beans, drops of honey and a  crunchy corn pastry

Homemade Ravioli filled with a jelly pecorino cheese and served with broad beans, drops of honey and a crunchy corn pastry

 

 

In the middle of last week I discovered that a big and important exhibition / display  was to be held at the weekend in a village near us. This was to be a [...]

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A man’s game.

Chocolate tagliatelle served with a spicy wild board sauce

Chocolate tagliatelle pasta served with a spicy wild board sauce

After about three months the hunting season is now almost over and most of the Allerona’s hunters will  have their freezers full of wild boar meat and jugs of sauces to go with this meat have been prepared and are [...]

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Bella Umbria

Fettucie di Garofalo cooked with a Asti Spumante and saffron sauce, goat cheese and white pepper.

Fettucie di Garofalo cooked with a Asti Spumante, saffron, goat cheese and white pepper.

 

It was 1960 when the local river last overflowed here in Orvieto, 52 years later the Paglia has burst its banks again and caused terrible damage , but just as then, people have proved to be courageous, united and ready to help each other. The people [...]

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Come rain or shine..

Homemade ravioli served with a chesnut cream, crispy pancetta cubes and fresh rosemary

Homemade ravioli served with a chesnut cream, crispy pancetta cubes and fresh rosemary

 

 

This morning, while taking what should have been be a brisk healthy walk , but was in fact  a slow leisurely stroll with our lazy dog Lui, I came across three of our elderly neighbors who were busy harvesting their olives. [...]

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What a disaster.

Paccheri with Amatriciana fish

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 [...]

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A once in a lifetime experience.

Ricotta and aubergine cannelloni

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 [...]

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New roommates...

Tortelloni filled with Buffalo mozzarella foam , served with Broccoli cream ,a dash of sun dried tomatoes and fresh anchovies paste .

Tortelloni filled with Buffalo mozzarella foam , served with Broccoli cream ,a dash of sun dried tomatoes and fresh anchovies paste .

 

I wish I could say that I made this Tortelloni dish using only the eggs laid by our new chickens! Unfortunately that`s not the case. But let’s start from the beginning.

As [...]

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A big thanks to everyone!

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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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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The home coming ……

tonnarelli allo scoglio

tonnarelli allo scoglio

It has been almost two months since Nick has left for Libya. He is doing a great job and I’m very proud of him. But I hope this is going to be the last week, two months is a long time. On Sunday we managed to speak, but unfortunately with [...]

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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 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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Pans, pots , pictures and stories.

Bucatini all'amatriciana

Bucatini all'amatriciana

Ciao, how are you? I hope you all had a good time during these holidays.

Me? I am good thanks and with great satisfaction I can also say , that TODAY begins the second year of the Sagra In Casa project.  One year spent between pans and pots, pictures and small stories [...]

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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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Good things come in small packages

Pasta alla norma

Pasta alla norma

 

Today I think I made the last harvest of tomatoes for this season. I’m speaking of tomatoes good for making sauce. For the rest , in the vegetable garden I still have : cherry tomatoes,  tomatoes  good for salad, aubergines and  peppers. Some courgette flowers have appeared , but whether they [...]

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