Cool breezes and warm days over this Italian holiday weekend call out for the BBQ.Tuscans love to grill! The air is just lightly scented with the first Acacia blossoms and smoke from the farmers burning off the cuttings from the olive trees, preparing for summer’s heat. Most homes have small fireplaces in the house to…
Market Recipes- Polpo- Octopus Salad
Saturday’s market also includes the fish truck.Although Italy is surrounded by water, fish is still considered to be an expensive item. Dried fish such as Baccala, the salt cod, is often the fish of choice. Even on the Island of Ischia, the local specialty is rabbit.. not fish.Fishermen sell the fish to make money and…
Celebrate Earth Day
Happy Earth Day… do something nice for your earth.. it is the only one you have! Here are some idea’s… and for the kidsand more ideas I planted.. what are you doing?
Inspired by Spring
From my garden.. my first artichoke is coming up! olives just forming the green hills of spring around my house my California poppies, bringing in a little sunshine from home this lucky ladybug-bearing plant is a vine..with the newly formed bunches of grapes for fall’s wine warm weather light lunchpaper-thin slices of raw beef, carpaccio,…
Let the party begin!
spring is in the air! Sunday at the Macelleria Cecchini black olives in orange herb filled roast pork our table at Dario’s This week both my friend Beatrice and I celebrate out birthdays… so we went to Dario Cecchini’s SoloCiccia Sunday for lunch to start celebrating! We went early to catch some of the Sunday…
Radio
I was just interviewed last night by Leslie of Girl About Town.She was just recently in Florence and I took her to some of my favorite places.Listen to the show!
Pesce di Aprile and Palm Sunday
Often in Italy holidays collide.This Sunday is Palm Sunday and the locals all went to church… to get not palms, but olive branches. So is it Olive Sunday? It happens to coincide with the trimming of the olive trees for the season, topping them off to be easier to harvest in winter. It is also…
I am so THERE!
Besides being cute…. useful! In my classes one of the hardest things to teach is Trussing,tieing off rolled meats etc.I can’t wait to get my hands on these FOODLOOPS But has anyone actually seen them or used them, I can’t find where to order them.