After a week of chocolate I am glad to be back to the Central Market and savory food! When we talk about Truffles here… they are black or white..and not chocolate! Both are in season now. We bought one of the black truffles for class the other day at the Gastronomia Perini and just simply…
not prunes
Here’s what’s in the market today! lunch anyone? these are fresh white truffles from San Miniato, Tuscany also has tons of white truffles, as well as Alba! By christmas, these will go to about 350 an etto, which is 100 grams, about 3 ounces!
Fall Market treasures
Fall is my favorite season to cook,slow stews, beans and soups encouraging long slow meals with friends and wine. The rain has arrived, hopefully everyone got their grapes harvested in time, this years summer was not hot, and many left the grapes on the vine to catch the Indian summer, which came… and went! But…
Rufina Wine Festival
The last of the wine festivals in September is the Bacco festival in Rufina.We were on our way home from our friends Beatrice and Adriano’s wedding in Castagno d’ Andrea in the hills above Rufina and had to stop on our way back to Florence to let the wine cart pass by! All the cars…
Going whole Hog in Calabria
The Dodaro’s Giuseppe and his daughter Francesca, went whole hog and the peperoncino festival. Their family stand, all pork products , with chili were fabulous. Giuseppe has spent time in Toronto, and was thrilled to speak English with me.I adored the ‘Nduja, called a spicy salami, but when researching how to make it, found out…
Recipes— From my house to yours!
This is where I will put links to recipes on the blog to make them easier to find! Watermelon Granita Death By chocolate: Salame dolce, Vestri’s hot chocolate, Chocolate Orange Vodka, Wild Boar in Dolce Forte ( sweet and sour stew)Anchovy meFake fish Fennel Pollen Pork with Grape “pearls”Oven Roasted Apricots and farther down on…
Chocolate and Chili
Get ready for Eurochocolate and Ottobre Rosso!This year Chocolate and Chili are making a big splash! HOT CHOCOLATE takes on a new meaning! At the Peperoncino festival, Eurochocolate presented Paul DeBondt’s newest chocolate’s , with a smoked jalepeno and a habernero,as well as many other producers. For the first time, Chili is being featured in…
A Diamond in Calabria
Just got back from the Peperonicino Festival in Diamante in Calabria.It was a blast! Although not a huge village, Diamante is on the coast, called the Riviera del Cedri, the Citron coast,famous for the giant lemon like Citron which is quite refreshing after all that chili. The Calabrian Chili pepper comes both sweet and spicy,…