Sunday’s salad was a special one. The radicchio and salad greens came right from the garden and even though early November, I washed them outside in a warm and buttery sun.
I now often wash our salad in a most special spot: at an old pump Pino has installed just outside our front door, beak of it over a section of ancient fountain he salvaged from a job site.
Another Pino artisan triumph.
On a warm November day, no better place to wash salad….
And what tasty additions to that salad:
– rapunzoli and caccialepri foraged on the mountainside by Gina, over ninety years old, but still scrambling up and down slopes like a mountain goat as she gathers wild greens.
Gina, over ninety, loves to scramble the hillsides searching for wild greens
Caccialepri e rapunzoli
Washing Gina’s wild greens
– fennel just dug up from Giuseppina’s garden – and her arugula, too
“Ever seen such a fennel?!”
Giuseppa’s fennel, right from the garden
Fennel and arugula from Giuseppa for our salad
– our just-pressed new olive oil, back from the mill about a week ago.
The pressing of our olives into oil, “green gold”
Pino seasons the salad with our “new” olive oil, just back from the mill
Can there ever be a better salad?
Read about the goodness of other wild greens.
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