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One my greatest pleasures in life is baking bread. I love the feeling of concocting a gruel from the simplest of ingredients flour, water, salt and yeast to create such a variety of sustaining foods, bread, our daily bread. For many years I made bread..
Topics: Bread, bread recipe apple chestnut bread, World Bread Day 2009
Topics: Bread, bread recipe apple chestnut bread, World Bread Day 2009
Porcini Season - 28 days ago
It's that time of the year again when I awaken before light to the sound of my father- in -law lightly clomping down the stairs to go after the big game like Cinghiale, otherwise known in these parts as wild boar, whilst the steady whooming of. Topics: boletus edulis, porcini, porcino recipe
Elderberry or Sambuco Jam - 40 days ago
We've been busy making elderberry jam lately. The trees have been heavily laden this year as we have had a warm summer, with enough rain to finish them off leaving them pleasingly plump and delectable. Just right for the picking. Elderberry.. Topics: conserva di Sambuco, Elderberry jam recipe, food, jams, Sambuco
Wine Bash at Martini & Rossi Spiritual Home - 50 days ago
It's that time of the year again, the "vendemmia" and the talk turns to the prospects of the wine harvest for the year. Some of our wine making friends say that this years quality is high but yeilds are low. Sounds like good wine at... Topics: Provinicia di Torino, Strada dei Reale all Vino Torinesi, Torino/Turin, Turin province, wine
Spicy cheese filled Zucchini flowers - 54 days ago
One of Italians favorite ingredients that they love to use here that often surprises our guests, are zucchini flowers. They can be quite bountiful at times when there are many on the vine that will never tun into a zucchini such as these in the... Topics: antipasti, fiori di zucchini, zucchini flower, zucchini flower recipe, zucchini recipe





























