Can’t stand the heat? Get out of the kitchen!!!
We just finished our Kitchen in Chianti classes until September.
During August I am doing private touring and cooking classes at villa’s around Tuscany so sort of a vacation. Discovering new villages and villas is always fun!
We have had our first tomatoes from the garden and more eggplants are almost ready.
The zucchini however are an almost daily harvest.
This week was so hot and I found a larger zucchini, so created one of my husband’s favorite summer dishes a Zucchini Carpaccio.
The instructions are on Food Connect, where I write twice a week. It is also nice with a little something crunchy on top, perhaps toasted pinenuts?
Living under the Tuscan Sun in the summer is not fun if you have to work, but luckily things slow down here in August, so I can slow down too!
Time to spend more time in the garden, ready to start making some jams, jellies and pickles.
Last year I did some fun recipes I want to repeat- probably my favorite was the tomato jam.
This year will make it spicy. The cantelope jam on the same page was also spectacular and my friend Francesca at the weekly market has fabulous cantelope right now.
Do try them both!