Time to stick near our wood stove these snowy days: Today, I cooked up pasta con le fave on the wood stove, deciding to defrost some of the fava beans from our…
Pino headed to Norcia today to inspect a few job sites where earthquake restoration is needed. He took this photo of the Basilica di San Benedetto, only the façade survived the October…
Lunch with Giuseppa and Paolo at their Deruta countryside farm is not only a feast for the palate. It’s a joyous experience of family warmth – even more so if grandchildren Irene…
Actually, every time we stop at La Baita, roadside stand outside of Rieti, our snack is always more than “just a bite.” How to pass up the goodness? Although the famous Baita…
On many a trip to L’Aquila with Pino, we savored that abruzzese cucina genuina (rough translation, “authentic Abruzzo cooking”) at Agriturismo San Gregorio, just outside the town. On a recent trip, we…
We always celebrate Thanksgiving in our Assisi farmhouse…with a little italiano input. Pino’s turkey takes center stage. A winter squash dish from the island of Ustica, off Sicily, is always a side…
Every year as fall moves towards winter, I play with ways to use up our summer garden’s last gift, those green tomatoes. For Thanksgiving this year, a green tomatoes/peppers sauce was on…
We’ve been hearing it on the news, reading it in the papers: acquire Castelluccio lentils, Norcia salami, prosciutto and capocollo and pecorino cheeses as an economic support to those in the Umbrian…
The November landscape was misty, gloomier – but no less spectacular – than our first trip to San Marcello (near Jesi) in July. And no less spectacular was lunch at Ristorante La…
We just had our second feast at Ciro’s ristorante near Jesi. How did we ever discover such a Marches region culinary treasure? Just a dash of buona fortuna. We’d headed to San…