November is the month for the squash appassionati (and I’m one). Our favorite fruit and vegetable stand near Assisi – that of Roberto Migliosi and family – tempts with a variety of…
Read Article
We often eat at Peppa’s. Every meal is always an Umbrian rural feast, and although she’ll invite us over for “solo per un primo,” it’s never “just a first course.” Lunch…
Bell peppers won’t be in the Umbria vegetable gardens for much longer. With a few we have now, I decided to make “meatless” stuffed peppers. Here’s an easy recipe for Vegetarian Stuffed…
Pasta dell’Ortolana Umbra – showcased with garden vegetables – would be literally translated “pasta of the Umbrian-vegetable-grower” (a feminine gardener). Since our friend Renato gave us all the vegetables from his garden,…
During every one of many Sicily sojourns over the years, more than one meal has featured la caponata. But what a tasty one we had recently in Tuscany, made by our Sicilian friend,…
That freshly-made fresh ricotta from our favorite caseficio inspired today’s pasta recipe. Eggplants and ripe red tomatoes – goodnesss from friend Renato’s garden – formed a delectable combination to that fresh ricotta in today’s…
Late springtime is wild asparagus season and lucky for us, Peppa found such an abudance this spring that we have a few bunches in our freezer. While making a willd asparagus frittata today, thoughts wandered back to Eggi’s celebration of…
I missed the Festa di Scienza e Filosofia in Foligno this year. Here’s a note I wrote on that “only-in-Italy!” event the first time I attended: Where else can you join a Saturday night…
“Mangia con noi” (“Eat with us”), Chiarina urged. “Today, lunch will be simple as it’s too hot to cook,” she added as she sautéed gently their sausage in their olive oil. (Husband…
We always tell our apartment guests that the best eating – and at the most economical prices – is at the evening food festivals of the small villages, le sagre. Our favorite…