November Sunday in the garden Sweet vanilla persimmons up on the tree are getting ripe and zucchini flowers are to be picked: they long for being filled with creamy ricotta cheese, tiny strips of pistacchio mortadella, chopped green olives and then fried in extra virgin olive oil. Are you interested and would you like to…
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From the Project: In the Kitchen Garden – Flowers, Vegetables and Quotes
November arrived with the soft glistening lights of candles and this little bright flowers that filled the heart with marvel. Wishing everybody a beautiful November!
Pot roasted shoulder of lamb: when the dishes of tradition talk
Welcome in the kitchen! Last weekend, during a long beautiful driving up to the hills in the heart of Apulia region, there was time for a visit at a good local butcher’s, where they served me a tender piece of shoulder of lamb filled with a typical local artisan salumi called “capocollo” and “caciocavallo podolico”…
From the Project: In the Kitchen Garden – Flowers, Vegetables and Quotes
It was this morning when I caught this view of the zinnias flowers in the garden. They are still there, beautiful in their lively brightness and tall in their daring effort to reach for the sky. I saved the seeds for the next good season. Would you save the seeds of your efforts for the…
Recipe for good bread
The new week started with checking the bread dough left to rest for a night.Indeed, the next morning, the bread dough seemed to have that peculiar bubbly fluffiness for making a well done bread. It only needed little time and work of kneading more and, of course, ingredients inside play a relevant role. – What…
The cosy feeling of a faba beans purée
Hello October! The week is painted with the golden colors of Autumn and one of the most prepared dishes at this time of the year, according to my family tradition, is a delicious creamy faba beans purée. Simple ingredients to make a tasteful recipe that requests an easy way of execution, which can be also…
From the Project: In the Kitchen Garden – Flowers, Vegetables and Quotes
A new harvest of tomatoes in the garden on October 5th: 1491gr after two more weeks. When we chose and sowed the seeds of tomatoes in the last late June, we couldn’t ask for better results, about 1 kg tomatoes every 2 weeks. It is a blessed tomatoes season! We are going to keep tomatoes…
From a crisp rosemary schiacciata to a millefoglie made of green
After a long very hot Summer, which made us long for appetizing fresh salads, thirst-quenching drinks and creamy fruit ice creams, now it is time again for delicious dishes that make us feel the warm, cosy welcome of the Autumn season. For those, who love the good fragrance of a just home-baked potato focaccia or…
Let the sunflowers shine of their own light
This week sunflowers started blooming in the garden, so I enjoyed catching their bright smile and infinite beauty. What kind of flowers would you like to have into your own garden?
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