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osse dei morti-biscuits for all Souls day
LE OSSA DEI MORTI – Literally translated as ‘dead bones’ eaten on the day of all Souls Day when the Italian families visit cemetries to remember the faithful who have transitioned from an earthly life to an eternal one. In pre-Christian times food was put outside for the dead: this is now a [...]
Posted by Ren on ottobre 31st, 2008 under Recipes | Comment now »Beautiful Italy
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Posted by Ren on ottobre 26th, 2008 under In Rome and around | Comment now »Sausage rolls-rotoli con salsicce
Finger food again
Sausage rolls:
120gr puff pastry.
2 Italian sausages
1 egg, milk, water
Roll out the pastry in rectangles about 35 x 18 and cut in strips. Take the skin off the sausage and roll it to fit in the middle of the pastry. Wet the sides with some of the water and fold over and [...]
Grana cheese grissini
More finger food.-
Make a pastry base with the following:-
Heat up 50gr butter, 1 large cup milk , and 10gr fresh yeast. In a bowl aside mix 370gr flour (00 type), 3tbspns finely grated grana cheese (mixed with strong pecorino if you like), 8gr salt. Add the liquid mixture to the flour [...]
Spicey peanuts
While the rest of Europe is into a cold Autum, I am trying out finger food for a party in the hot sun and heat!
200 gr raw peanuts
1, 1/2 tspn brown sugar
1/2 tspn fine sea salt
1/2 spoon good hot ground peperoncino
1 tspn pumpkin oil (Austrian) this gives them a nice brown hue
or cold pressed sunflower [...]
Natural reserve of Monte Mario
Riserva Naturale Monte Mario
Sunday 26 October at 11.00
Via Gomenizza, 81
The sea on the hill. The shells of Monte Mario.
Guided tour to know the secrets of Monte Mario. In Italian
Gaia900 tel. 06.27800984
Tibetan film in Rome-ciak sul cinema tibetano
tibetan cinema in rome 5-27 ottobre
ASIA Onlus organizes with the Nuovo Cinema Aquila, a ‘wiindow on tibebtan cinema titled: “Ciak sul cinema tibetano“.
The film directors present Tsering Rhitar Sherpa (Nepal), Kelsang Tsering Khangsar (India) e Kelsang Rinchen (India).
Program Saturday, 25 October 16.00 – 20.00
Karma, film, Tsering Rhitar Sherpa (Nepal), 2006, 100’;
The [...]
Ricotta & Spinach tart
1 kg spinach washed, steamed and drained of all water.
puff pastry
300gr ricotta cheese
2 eggs
s & p, grated nutmeg,parmesan cheese
Roll out the pastry and place on a round sheet of baking paper in a tin. Mix all the ingredients with a fork and fill the pie. Heat the oven to 185°’ and place in the centre [...]
Curry Bible-Madhur Jaffrey
My niece came to stay from London and brought me this fablous book of curry’s following the curry trail all over the world.
Posted by Ren on ottobre 23rd, 2008 under Books to read on cooking and not | Comment now »Pasta with Porcini mushroom and tomatoe sauce
Luca’s porcini Mushroom and tomatoe sauce
600gr porcini mushrooms
10 small pacchino tomatoes
garlic, parsley, s & p
extra virgin olive oil
Peel the tomatoes and cut in small pieces. Sauté the garlic with the tomatoes in the olive oil, add the mushrooms cut into small pieces, sauté , add S & P and sprinkle with fine chopped garlic. [...]
Rome Film Festival 22nd to 31st October
Posted by Ren on ottobre 17th, 2008 under Films-Theatre in Rome | Comment now »Quince – poached quince; Quince chutney
Poached Quince
3 large quinces, 1/1/2 cups sugar, 4 cups water (check if you need to add more), split and seed half a vanilla pod.
Bring everything except the quinces to a boil. Peel and quarter the quinces, cutting the core, and cut into slices, throwing immediately into the syrup that is simmering on the stove [...]
Autumn is here!
Posted by Ren on ottobre 17th, 2008 under In Rome and around | Comment now »Roma pulita
The translation of this is ‘pick up your dog’s mess, it is filthy, smelly and dangerous!’
Posted by Ren on ottobre 15th, 2008 under In Rome and around | Comment now »The English Theatre of Rome
The English Theatre of Rome is happy to present
Britishness
From Victorian values to the myth of Empire, Ms. Shelly Cooper elaborates about the confusion around culture and fear of fundamentalism.
By and with Shelley Cooper
ThursdayOctober 30th at 9pm and Friday October 31 at 9pm [...]
Pastor Angelicus
Posted by Ren on ottobre 14th, 2008 under In Rome and around | Comment now »Fall Harvest festival
Posted by Ren on ottobre 14th, 2008 under Food Fairs-Wine & Eating in Rome and around | Comment now »Sacred woods in Imperial Rome
1 Lucus Facutalis
2 Lucus Larum Querquetulanum
3 Lucus Esquilinus
4 Lucus Poetelius
5 Lucus Mefitis
6 Lucus Junonis Lucinae
8 Lucus Vestae
9 Lucus Strenuae
10 Lucus Asyli
11 Lucus Bellonae
12 Lucus Feroniae
13 Lucus Lauretum
14 Lucus Furrinae
15 Lucus Albionarum
19 Lucus Petelinus
21 Lucus Semeles
22 Lucus Annae Perennae
23 Lucus Permagnus
24 Lucus Sacri Nemus Argileti
26 Murtia
27 Lucus Viminalis
28 [...]
Fennel with rosemary and orange honey
Coming back from Sardinia, I still have the taste of this dish in my mind.
Here is my version for 4 people:
4 fennel bulbs
1 large spoon honey
1 sprig of rosemary, 2 large garlic cloves
juice of 1 orange
30gr butter (I use ghee)
s & p, small glass white wine
Cut the fennel in half and boil in salted water [...]
Francesca’s ‘Brodo alla greca’
Francesca has had an operation on her leg after a tennis accident! Her mother has come down from the Val d’Aosta to take care of her. This is her ‘comfort food’ recipe for a good home broth.
Prepare a meat broth with:
250 gr beef, carrot, onion, potatoe, celery, grains of pepper, juniper and a leaf [...]
Grape Festival Marino
Something really funny happened at the Marino wine Festival… due to a technical error the pipes from the vineyards usually connected to a fountain where wine would flow during the opening thanks to the festival given by the mayor by way of prayer to the Virgin Mary, this time only water came out. [...]
Posted by Cristina on ottobre 9th, 2008 under Food Fairs-Wine & Eating in Rome and around | Comment now »Fresco Painting course in Rome
Do you want to learn how to paint your own wall mural?’ Small paintings to give as gifts to delight your friends, or simply for yourself.Paint with beautiful natural earth colours . Once dry you will be taken step by step through the same techniques used by Michaelangelo on the Sistine Chapel. Now you know [...]
Posted by Cristina on ottobre 6th, 2008 under Fresco painting lessons in Rome | 5 Comments »Chestnut Feast in Canepina
From 11, 12-18, 19-25, 26th OCtober 2008 you can visit Canepina near Viterbo for the Feast of Chestnuts.
How go get there by car.- Take the Autostrada A1, Exit at Orte and pass Vasanello, Vallerano until you reach Canepina. You can also take the S.S.Cassia and follow the map.
Giovanna’s chick pea soup with ‘pastine gnocchi’
It has got cold in Italy, and I came back from Rieti with some home made ‘gnocchi pastina’ that Giovoanna my reflexologist’s mother made for me to take home, together with a jar of ready prepared chick peas, plus the recipe to make ‘ Pasta e ceci’
Ingredients:- 500gr chick peas (cec), olive oil, garlic, rosemary, [...]
Pick your own
With the rise in prices of food and vegetables, the Romans are finally getting into the swing of ‘pick your own’.
Some addresses:- Via della Pisana 950, ‘Cavendo Tutus’ , a large vegetable garden where you can find eggplants, cabbage, zucchine and green beets, all for 1Euro x kilo. Lovely red tomatoes, fresh green salad, [...]
Sardinian birthday
I was invited to have my birthday dinner in Olbia at the ‘Gallura’ during a weeks holiday in Sardinia.
Pink prosecco.
Oven warm “pane carasau”, with olive oil, salt and pepper and origano (these are wafer-thin sheets of toasted bread also known as “carta da musica”), Tuna carpaccio with bottarga: crispy fried giunchetti (new born baby anchovies)
[...]
Francesca’s aromatic salt
Francesca had the best grill ever while on holiday on the island of Elba. She found out that the secret was a very simple ‘aromatic’ salt
Here is the recipe
1 kg salt crystals
rosmary,sage,laurel leaves,peel of 2 organic lemons, grains of black pepper, myrtle berries,juniper berries, 1 clove of garlic (with the inside growth removed).
Wash, dry [...]
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