My local farmer Benedetto Saturday’s market in Certaldo is where I now gather new recipes.What better place than from who grows the food I eat!Along with recipes, come tales. Today I was asking for recipes for making rennet for cheese making from the choke from artichokes, a lost art.Benedetto knows how to make it from…
Sweet Summer Gifts
Sweltering heat…. sweet summer gifts! Shopping at the local vendors we found summer in full swing, not willing to wait for tomorrow’s weekly market here in Certaldo, I am finally over my jetlag and needed to cook! Fresh peaches, still warm from the trees turned into a Peach Crumble. We also found Cuore di Bue…
Let’s just say I have been technically challenged this visit to the states.Couldn’t get my wireless setup expect one day….Had problems using the cell phone chip my brother left me… Spent too much time working..as usual! Can’t wait to get home to rest… from these vacations in the US I am sitting in the Cinncinati…
Queen of Easy
I love to cook, but not to spend all day sweating over long, tedious recipes.I have no big machines got rid of all those. My way of cooking is to tweek recipes to make them easy,but without losing the flavor and quality. A perfect example, instant mash potato gnocchithe basket is from Calabria and puts…
Raw?
Although I spent the last week grilling, baking and cooking in a woodfired oven, my friend has just started a new blog which appeals to me for the summer… Eating Raw She said her hubbie has already lost 14 pounds.. sign me up!
From the Farm to the Table
a man his pig fabulous products Why is food so great in Chianti?As my mother-in-law Tina taught me,spend more time shopping and less time cooking. When you source your ingredients, search out people with a passion for what they are doing, the quality of the ingredients ,hence your food takes on a flavor and depth…
The heat is on!
Getting ready to grill with my friend Kate Hill,the heat is on!Florence has warmed up as we get ready to stoke up our wood burning oven and light the BBQ!But after all that hot stuff… we’ll all want to cool off with some nice gelato! Chocolate semifredo and fresh fig ice cream at Damiani, just…
worth a thousand words
While touring it is impossible to blog.Here is a “Taste” of our Chianti Classico Experience! We successfully dodged the rain and had a splendid week exploring the countryside, meeting the masters who have set the bar for the BEST there is…..shopping, eating fabulous foods,drinking great wines and enjoying breath-taking the views!first porcini of the season…