Summertime zucchini abundance in our garden means creative cooking challenges. Pastas for lunchtime now often include zucchini, in one way or another. I came up with this easy recipe today: so easy that you can cook the sauce while the pasta water is boiling! Ingredients: 1 small-to-medium sized zucchini per person (big ones will not…
Driving east from L’Aquila, Pino and I were in search of “three sisters”, le tre sorelle. After a wondrous trilogy of events, an elderly key-keeper – who welcomed us into his home – opened for us one of the three sorelle, a stunning Romanesque church. And these photos capture memorable moments of our “tre sorelle”…
On our Marches motorcycle trip a few years ago, we stopped in San Ginesio, once a fortified medieval castle (as were many of the marchigiani hilltop towns). The golden tones of sandstone and redbrick of the houses, fortified towers and circuit of fourteenth-century protective walls contrast with the hazy blue tones of the Sibillini mountain…