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Food Fairs in Rome and Lazio in August
| Sagra del Cocomero |
| dal 31 Luglio 2010 al 1 Agosto 2010 / Piazzale della Stazione Fs di Zagarolo / Zagarolo (RM)
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| Mercato dei Sapori |
| il 31 Luglio 2010 / Parco comunale Il Monte / Montasola (RI) |
| Festa di Sant’Oliva |
| il 1 Agosto 2010 / Piazza di Sant’Oliva / Cori (LT) |
XXIV Sagra delle Fettuccine al Fungo Porcino   |
| il 1 Agosto 2010 / Piazza Mareri / Ascrea (RI) |
Sagra del Baccalà |
| dal 6 al 8 Agosto 2010 / Viale Donatori del sangue / Tuscania (VT) |
| Sagra della Polenta – Festa del quartiere Colle |
| il 6 Agosto 2010 / Località Acropoli di Civitavecchia / Arpino (FR) |
| 25^ Festa del Tartufo Nero Estivo |
| dal 7 al 8 Agosto 2010 / P.zza Umberto I / Campoli Appennino (FR) |
| 24^ Festa del Tartufo nero di Campoli Appennino |
| dal 7 al 8 Agosto 2010 / Centro Storico / Campoli Appennino (FR) |
| Sagra delle Fettuccine alla Trebulana |
| dal 7 al 8 Agosto 2010 / Piazza XXIV Aprile / Monteleone Sabino (RI) |
| Sagra delle Fettuccine ai Funghi Porcini |
| dal 9 al 15 Agosto 2010 / Casaprota (RI) |
| Festival Pizza Show |
| il 9 Agosto 2010 / Piazza Borghese / Colle di Tora (RI) |
| Carpe Noctem Festival – Sagra dei Frascarelli |
| il 10 Agosto 2010 / Centro storico / Licenza (RM) |
| 15^ Sagra della Lumaca |
| dal 11 al 15 Agosto 2010 / Graffignano / Graffignano (VT) |
| Festa dei Vicoli |
| dal 12 al 14 Agosto 2010 / Nei vicoli del paese / Sant’Oreste (RM) |
| Sagra dell’Arrosticino |
| il 14 Agosto 2010 / Piazza Borghese – V.le Lungo Lago / Colle di Tora (RI) |
| TARANTELLIRI – Festival di Musica Popolare – II Edizione |
| dal 26 al 28 Agosto 2010 / Piazza Marconi / Castelliri (FR) |
| IX Sagra dello Stratto al Tartufo e dello Gnocco al Castrato |
| dal 27 al 30 Agosto 2010 / Piazza Papa Giovanni XXIII / Blera (VT) |
Just Kids-Patti Smith
This wonderful book takes you through New York in the 1970’s and through the eyes of Patti Smith who writes poetically about her relationship with Robert Mappelthorpe and takes you to meet people and go places that she shared during this flourishing cultural moment.
Summer snack
Green salad, raw carrots, slightly cooked zucchini, boiled eggs, natural tuna fish, baby tomatoes with pesto.
Round dish a mixture of quineo and chick peas with a round buffalo ricotta in the middle, surrounded by slices of Tofu and san marziano tomatoes, sprinkled with chopped parsley and freshly grated pepper.
It is really too hot to cook so I either get up at 6 when it is cool and prepare some light grains and slightly cooked vegetables, make a dip and at lunch time everything is cold. Put the plates on the table with olive oil, balsamic vinegar, s & p, nice bread and wheat crackers and everyone just helps themselves.
Posted by Ren on luglio 21st, 2010 under Recipes | Comment now »Mysterious object over Rome
Almond cookies from Via della Luce
If you love almonds go to Via della Luce in Trastever to INNOCENTI where they make the freshest almond cookies in town!
Posted by Ren on luglio 21st, 2010 under In Rome and around, Shopping for food,clothes & fun | Comment now »Green Roman beans in garlic & fresh tomatoes
Green Roman beans are large flat beans and typical in Rome in summertime.
500gr broad beans topped and tailed and cut in half
3 medium ripe tomatoes
2 cloves garlic, 1 tbspn olive oil,small glass water, s & p
In a low pan add the water, sliced garlic cloves, olive oil and beans. Cover with a lid and steam for 10′. Add the tomatoes cut in fours with the skin and s & p. Steam for another 10′. By this time you will be able to remove the skin of the tomatoes.Check that the juice is not dry and if so, add a little more water. Stir and cover and steam for a further 10 to 15′ until the beans are cooked.
This is nice eaten cold with some unsalted toasted bread as bruschetta with olive oil.
Posted by Ren on luglio 6th, 2010 under Recipes | 1 Comment »Wine Feast in Paliano
Wine Feast in Frosinone
Paliano 17-18th July Vino in Festa
Posted by Ren on luglio 6th, 2010 under Food Fairs-Wine & Eating in Rome and around | Comment now »Sagra della Lumaca-Festa of the Snail
Festa of the Snail – Sagra della Lumaca -from 2nd July to 4th July -via romana, Magliano Sabina
Lamb cooked alla Fogliana- strozzapreti all’ arrabbiata- but the queen remains la lumaca, cooked from the old traditional recipe.
Posted by Ren on giugno 30th, 2010 under Food Fairs-Wine & Eating in Rome and around | Comment now »food fairs in July in Lazio
| Sagra della Zucchina in Fiore |
| 25 june- 4 July 2010 / Faleri Novi / Fabrica di Roma (VT) |
| Carosello Storico dei Rioni |
| 27 June- 31 July 2010 / Cori (LT) |
| 2^ Sagra della pizza |
| 2 – 4 July / Piazzale ATER / Ausonia (FR) |
| VI Festa della Birra |
| 2 – 4 July / Piazzale Giovanni Paolo II (Piazzale Campo Sportivo) / Palombara Sabina (RM) |
| Foglia XIII sagra della lumaca |
| 2 – 4 July 2010 / Fraz. Foglia / Magliano Sabina (RI) |
| I° Festa della Trebbiatura |
| dal 2 al 4 Luglio 2010 / Piazza Don Milani / Gallese (VT) |
| Notte bianca |
| 3 -4 July / via Nomentana – Tor Lupara / Fonte Nuova (RM) |
| 3^ Sagra del Cinghiale e 5^ ediz. I Sentieri dell’Allume |
| 8 – 11 July / Piazzale Cesare Moroni / Allumiere (RM) |
| Una Salsiccia da Guinness. 2^ edizione |
| 10 July/ Pontinia (LT) |
| VII Sagra degli Antichi Sapori |
| 15- 18 July/ Piazza A. Chigi / Allumiere (RM) |
| 4^ Sagra delli Ghiozzi |
| 16 – 18 July / Piazza Bartolomeo della Queva – Tivoli Terme / Tivoli (RM) |
| 7^ Sagra del Cinghiale e Festa dei Cinghialari |
| 17-l 18 July / Loc. Sipicciano, parco del Poggio del Castagno / Graffignano (VT) |
| Vino in Festa 2010 |
| 17 – 18 July / Centro storico / Paliano (FR) |
| Sagra della BisteccaTolfetana |
| 23 – 25 July/ Parco della Pace / Tolfa (RM) |
| IV Sagra della Patacca e della Passerina |
| 23 – 25 July P.zza Romolo Fulli / Serrone (FR) |
| Sagra dei Maccheroni |
| 24 July/ Località Ponticelli Sabino / Scandriglia (RI) |
| Mercato dei sapori. Come una volta, dalle cantine alle piazze |
| 31 July / Montasola (RI) |
| Cavallandia 2010 |
| l 31 July-l 1 Agosto 2010 / Area Cavallandia, strada per il Turano / Poggio Moiano (RI) |
Luca’s pesto
Roma
maremma
2010 Jun 26: Partial Lunar Eclipse
Posted by Ren on giugno 30th, 2010 under In Rome and around | Comment now »Breakfast
“When you wake up in the morning, Pooh,” said Piglet at last, “what’s the first thing you say to yourself?”
“What’s for breakfast?” said Pooh.
“What do you say, Piglet?”
“I say, I wonder what’s going to happen exciting today?” said Piglet.
Pooh nodded thoughtfully.
“It’s the same thing,” he said.
Posted by Ren on giugno 23rd, 2010 under Recipes | Comment now »Pesto with walnuts and peas
300 gr fusilli pasta (for 3)
1 small potatoe cut into small pieces.
Mix together in the mixer:- 2tbspn grated parmesan or grana,1 small garlic clove,3 tbspn olive oil,8 shelled walnuts, s & p, tbspn water, not too fine,just a little crunchy. Add 3 tbspns cooked fresh peas ( leave some whole). Set aside
Bring some salty water to boil, throw in the potatoes and fusilli pasta. When cooked, drain and keep some of the pasta water. Squash the potatoe with a fork and mix with the sauce adding a tbspn of the salty pasta water. The potatoe helps to make a creamy sauce.
Posted by Ren on giugno 18th, 2010 under Recipes | 1 Comment »Without Borders Film Festival
Between July 7 and 9th July , 2010, the third edition of the multi-cultural festival “Senza Frontiere/WithoutBorders” will take place at the Casa del Cinema of Rome.
Wednesday 7th July
SALA DELUXE at 14.30
ACQUA Italia 2010-Short about WATER done by the students of the Pistelli School in Rome. follwed by:
HAITI SHORTS Director – Cine Institute students. Haiti, 2010, english ,sub.ItalianThe Haiti institute of cinema teaches youth to make films.Here they talk about the devastation of the earthquake
16.00- RABBIT A LA BERLIN by Bartek Konopka & Piotr Rosolowski. Germany/Poland, 2009, 39′, German,sub:Eng.,It.
Until the fall of the Berlin wall thousands of wild rabbits lived in the dead zone between East & West Germany.This story is a metaphor between two opposing forces: our need for breedom and security. Best documentary german candidate for 2010i Oscar 2010 come migliore documentario.
18.00 JAFFA ny Keren Yedaya. Germany,Israel, Francr, 2009, 106′, hebrew,arabic.sub:Eng.It.cast Dana Ivgy, Moni Moshonov. Living together in difficulty but with tollerance, jews and arabs in the city of Jaffa where love between a young jewish girl and an arab machanic is tragically interupted.
20.00-Video Malawi Project 2010, 1′20” followed by concert Alleluya Band: “Malawi Woyee” sponsored by Intesa Sanpaolo
TEATRO ALL’APERTO 21.30-THE NECESSITIES OF LIFE by Benoit Pilon. Canada, 2008, 103′, sub.Eng.It.
Nel 1952 un cacciatore esquimese lascia la sua casa e finisce in un sanatorio di Quebec City per curarsi la tubercolosi. Lontano dalla sua famiglia, incapace di parlare francese e comunicare, la situazione diventa critica finché non trova un amico. Candidato canadese agli Oscar 2008.
Thursday 8 July Festival Senza Frontiere 2010
SALA DELUXE at 16.00 WHICH WAY HOME by Rebecca Cammisa-doc USA, 2009, 90′, Spanish.sub:Eng.It. – Following a group of youth in a dangerous adventure of hope to cross the border between Mexico and USA on a freight train called ‘la Bestia’.American documentary candidate Oscar 2010.
SALA KODAK at 17.30 WORLDS APART by Niels Arden Danimarca, 2008, 116′, danish: sub.Eng,It.
cast Rosalinde Mynster, Pilou Asbaek.The daughter of a Jehovah’s witness is obliged to choose between religion and love when she meets someone outside of her faith.
SALA DELUXE at 18.00 FLOW by Irena Salina doc. USA, 2008, 93′, english. sub:It.. Can someone really possess WATER?. An enquiry into the privatization of the worlds fresh water. Sundance Film Festival 2008.
TEATRO ALL’APERTO at 21.30 SKIN by Anthony Fabian, Inghilterra/Sud Africa, 2008, 107′, english,zulu:, sub.It.
cast Sophie Okonedo, Sam Neill. Alice Krige Sandra, ten years old, seems like an aafrican child. Her parents,white south africans know nothing of their black ancestors. The racial laws of aparheid announces a family tragedy.
Friday 9th July Festival Senza Frontiere 2010
SALA DELUXE at 16.00 DAL MONDO / FROM AROUND THE WORLD Play Me, I’m Yours by Chiara Frisone & Azim Moollan, UK, 2009, 4′13”,english, sub:It. Luke Jerram the artist, spreads 3 pianos around the streets of London, San Paolo, Barcellona, Sidney, Belfast, Serajevo, New York, ecc. Playing the piano and listening to the others creates a spontanious contact. The project is going around the world.
BURNING IN THE SUN by Cambria Matlow & Morgan Robinson. USA, 2010, trailer 5′, french, english: sub: It.
Daniel Dembele learns to make low cost solar pannels to bring electricity to villages in Mali.
Warda, Belgio, 5′
Something to Exchange, Italia, 5′
Who Am I, Sud Corea, 5′
Diversity Makes The World Colorful, Italia, 3′
SFAT The Mihaids Ballad, Italia, 5′
SUN COME UP by Jennifer Redfearn & Tim Metzger doc. USA, 2010, 38′, english.sub:It.
The island of Carteret in the Pacific Ocean is disappearing. The inhabitants need to leave their land and find a new place to call ‘home’.
SALA KODAK at 17.30
NO MORE TEARS SISTER by Helene Klowdaski, doc.,Sri Lanka/ Canada, 2005, 78′, tamil, english.Sub:It.
To obtain justice and still keeping her promise in front of the truth, doctor Rajani Thiranagama pays the highest price and becomes a symbol of hope.
SALA DELUXE at 18.00
VIAGGIO IN ITALIA by Roberto Rossellini Italia, 1954, 85′, Italian version cast Ingrid Bergman, George Sanders.
An bored english couple arrive in Italy on holiday and Rossellini transforms this cynical and cruel story into a new love story.
20.30 Concert Nihilistic Sex Machines withn Johnny B Azari & Darius Greyson
TEATRO ALL’APERTO at 21.30
AMREEKA by Cherien Dabis USA-Canada, 2009, 96′, ienglish, arab:sub. It.cast Nisreen Faour, Hiam Abbass,
Muna, a single mother from the West Bank, obtains a visa for USA. Her adventure with her son in the new world is tragic but full of hope in exile through free choice. FIPRESCI 2009, Festival di Cannes 2009.
The photographic show ACQUA/WATER will go until 11th July. Photos taken by the students of the elementary school Nathan Strauss (PS140) of New York,guided by the artist-photographer Joy Episalla. The theme ‘Why water is so important?’
Posted by Ren on giugno 15th, 2010 under Films-Theatre in Rome | Comment now »Calamari,fennel & tomatoe stew
This is for Phoebe who wants to cook Italian food.
400gr. cleaned medium size calamari
half the heart of a medium fennel
10 small tomatoes
garlic ,olive oil, fresh sweet chilli,s & p, parsley
Sauté a little garlic in olive oil for 4 minutes with the 6 thin slices of seeded red sweet chilli pepper. Add the calamari sliced in rounds and turn in the juice for about 5′, add the thinly sliced fennel, Cut the tomaatoes in half and place on the top of the stew, add a small glass of water or vegetable broth and cover. Simmer for about 10′ without turning. Now, uncover and remove the skin of the tomatoes (the stewing will easily help them slip off). Turn the mixture uncovered for3′ and add s & p and some chopped parsley. Cover again and simmer for further 10′. Leave the lid on the pan until ready to serve. This is also delicious cold thrown over toasted Italian country bread to soak up the juices
Posted by Ren on giugno 14th, 2010 under Recipes | 2 Comments »Keats and Shelly burial place in Rome
Keats (1795-1821) lies in a quiet corner in the oldest part of the Cemetery, next to Keats’s tomb is that of the artist and friend ,Joseph Severn (1793-1879),also responsible for the design of his friend’s grave. Later in life Severn became British Consul in Rome.
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) was cremated on the beach of Lerici and his ashes brought to Rome. He described the spot of the cemetry as being so beautiful ‘it might make one in love with death, to be buried in so sweet a place’. His son is also buried here.
Cats stroll in the shade of cypresses, where gravestones remember, Shelley’s friend Trelawney, Goethe’s son Julius, R.M. Ballantyne and Italian Communist Antonio Gramsci. Far from the chaos and noise of Rome, one may wander here in this quiet spot with cats strolling in the shade of the cypress trees. Some of the statues on the tombs are beautiful.
Protestant Cemetry-Via Caio Cestio, 6,00153 Roma
Opening hours-Monday-Saturday from 9.00 am to 5.00 pm (last entrance: 4.30 pm)
Sundays and public holidays 9.00 am to 1.00 pm (last entrance: 12.30 pm)-
Buses-3-75-23-60-95-280-30-175
Metro-Underground B line to Piramide
Fifa World Cup
Food fairs in Lazio in June
PIZZA FESTA – SAGRA DELLA PIZZA COTTA IN PIAZZA – From 6th to 13th June in Lariano
CHERRY FESTA - Sagra della Cillegia from 10th to 13th June
RICOTTA FESTA Sagra della Ricotta-13th June
Capranica Prenestina – Sagra della Ricotta -13th June in Guadagnolo,
LAMB KEBAB FESTA. Sagra dello Spiedino di Pecora. From 12th June to 14th June Monterotondo (RM)
CHERRY FESTA – Sagra della Cerasa -Palombara Sabina – 13th to 20th June
FISH FAIR - Sagra del Calamaro Fritto – Festa della Pesca -Manziana. – 18 to 20th June
SWEET RAVIOLI FESTA – Sagra del Raviolo Tradizionale Cameratano – Sunday 20th June in Cameratano.Starting from 12.30 this old Cameratano recipe passed on by generation to generation will be served in the Piazza prepared with the local cow milk ricotta. There will also be barbeque and delicious local tarts and sweets.
SNAIL LUMACA FESTA -Sagra della lumaca -Valmontone -24th to 27 June
Marmalade
Luca’s marmalade from Perfect Preserves:
1,4kg scrubbed oranges
2 scrubbed lemons
4,1/2 cups mixed brown and white sugar (or white sugar for a paler marmalade)
1/4 cup preserved stem ginger (he used 2 spoons grated fresh ginger root)
Put 6 cups of water in a large saucepan and bring to a boil with the fruit and simmer covered for about 1,1/2hrs or less if already tender when you pierce with a skewer. Drain in a colander over a bowl and keep the cooking liquid. Let the fruit cool. Chop the unpeeled fruit in the texture desired. Reserve the seeds and tie in some cheesecloth for pectin. Return the liquid in the bowl to the pan, add the sugar and cook over low heat and stir until the sugar dissolves. Bring to a boil, add the fruit and bag of seeds and keep boiling and skimming the froth for about 30′ until the jelly point is reached. Stir in the ginger a few minutes before it is ready. Ladle into sterilized jars.
Posted by Ren on giugno 7th, 2010 under Recipes | 1 Comment »Rock Save Italy
window dressing
Sunday photos
Porchetta at the Trionfale market
Giant mozzarella at the market
Giant chilli
The River Cottage cookbook
What is River Cottage?
1998 when Hugh moved into the original River Cottage in Dorset, to start growing and rearing some of his own food. ‘River Cottage’ continue to stand for the same principles: self-sufficiency, food integrity, and the consumption of local, seasonal produce.
Today, River Cottage consists of several different projects…
Posted by Ren on giugno 6th, 2010 under Books to read on cooking and not | 1 Comment »Sfuffed artichokes
4 Roman artichokes
juice of half lemon
Chop together with a half moon:-1 clove garlic,flat leaved parsley,1 anchovy,1 small spoon capers
grated parmesan and bread crumbs, s & p, olive oil
Pour some cold water into a bow with the squeezed juice of half a lemon and throw in the lemon as well.Prepare artichokes by taking about one third of the leaves off and cut across about 4cm to remove the hard part, put into the lemon water. Mix all the stuffing ingredients together and separating the leaves of the artichokes, fill with a small spoon. Place flat side down in a round pan with two large spoons olive oil and hot water to cover up to 3/4 of the artichokes. Cover and simmer for about 30′ , uncovering the last few minutes if there is too much liquid.There should be just enough to dunk your bread into as a little sauce.
Posted by Ren on giugno 5th, 2010 under Recipes | Comment now »Chicken breast in balsamic vinegar
1 chicken breast sliced
6 baby tomatoes, 1 white onion,
balsamic vinegar,olive oil,s & p
In a frying pan sauté the tomatoes cut in two, and sliced onion in olive oil until slightly transparent, s & p and add 1 tbspn balsamic vinegar.Cook alltogether for 1′ and add the chicken. Cook on med. heat, turning the chicken until cooked.
Posted by Ren on giugno 5th, 2010 under Recipes | Comment now »
Nemi strawberry Festival
6 June 2010.
Juices,icecream,liquors and bowls and bowls of strawberries on the menu at the l Sagra delle Fragole, in the town of Nemi in the Castelli Romani just south of Rome.
Roman spring vegetable vignarola
1 kilo fresh fava beans
1 kilo fresh peas
5 artichokes
lemon
3 large white fresh onions
vegetable broth
s & p, olive oil
Prepare the artichokes and put in cold water with lemon juice. Take out the fava beans and the peas from their pods.
Cut the onions in rounds and stew for 6′ in olive oil, add the artichokes cut in fours, turn and add some vegetable broth, cover and cook for 10′. If the artichokes are cooked, add the beans and peas and more broth if necessary to cover and simmer, s & p. Cook covered a further 15′ or until the ’stew’ is ready
Posted by Ren on giugno 1st, 2010 under Recipes | Comment now »
View from my window
Some melissa balm to gaze at while I am at my computer! AND READ THIS BY CHANCE “In ancient times Balm was planted by ones front door to drive away evil spirits. It was also used to draw bees to the hive. Avicenna, an 11th century Arab herbalist said “it causeth the mind and heart to become merry”
and on the terrace
at night
and day
Bread Fair in Sabina
Sunday 30th May-
11.30 – Artisan fair and typical food products of the Sabina countryside.
15.30 All the bakeries open to taste their delicious breads and cakes.Apertura degli stand dei panificatori dove si potranno
Posted by Ren on maggio 27th, 2010 under Food Fairs-Wine & Eating in Rome and around, In Rome and around | Comment now »Macaroon and pear crumble
6 large ripe hard medium sized pears
50gr brown sugar
lemon juice
200 gr plain flour
2 tblspns olive oil/or 100gr butter
packt of small dark crunchy macaroons.
Heat the oven to 180°Put the macaroons in a plastic bag and crush with a bottle or rolling pin. Peel,core and cut the pears in large pieces and cook for 8′ in a pan with the lemon juice and 35gr sugar. Put into a glass casserole dish and mix the flour,olive oil and crushed macaroons alltogether.Sprinkle with remaining sugar and bake for 30′. Serve either tepid or cool with plain vanilla icecream or whipped cream.
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