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Happy New Year!
Posted by Ren on dicembre 31st, 2008 under In Rome and around | Comment now »
Accademia d’Opera Italiana-New Year Concert
19.00 , Wednesday 31st December 2008
At the All Saints Church in Via del Babuino, Rome
New Year Concert featuring the Accademia d’Opera Italiana.
Rome, New Year’s Parade
On January 1 each year, tens of thousands gather in St. Peter’s Square, filling the streets with pageantry and music, to celebrate and receive the Pope’s New Year’s Day blessing. A focal point of Rome’s holiday season and the Pope’s Worldwide Day of Peace, the Rome New Year’s Parade celebrates life, cultural diversity and international [...]
Posted by Ren on dicembre 31st, 2008 under In Rome and around | Comment now »Don’t forget your lentils!
Italians eat lentils on New Year’s Eve to gain fortune and happiness in the coming year. Lentils are thought to symbolise money due to their colour and their flat, coin-like shape.
300 g. lentils
1 onion, 1 tomato,
¼ glass of dry white wine, 1 ½ litre of vegetable broth,
1 laurel leaf, olive oil, [...]
Roman window dressing
Posted by Ren on dicembre 30th, 2008 under In Rome and around | Comment now »Dry biscuits with barberries
زرشک Persian zirishk
My Persian friends brought me some dried barberries and I decided to put them into dried biscuits for New Years’:-
2 & half cups flour
1 cup sugar
3/4 pckt vanilla flavoured baking pdr
salt, 3 eggs
half + cup barberries,1 cup ground almonds
Mix together dry ingredients, add eggs, beating to a wet dough. Add berries and [...]
Shear Madness-Independent English Theatre in Rome
Performances are:
Wednesday and Sunday: 21:15
Monday and Saturday Matinee: 17:00
Tuesday and Friday (for schools): 10:30
For the first time ever in Rome, a theatre is producing the same show with 2 casts, in two languages: Shear Madness, in English, and Forbici Follia in Italian. The Background Paul Portner, German writer and psychologist, wrote Scherenschnitt in 1963, a study of [...]
Pomagranates and Marmalade
I came home from the Sabina with lots of organic sour oranges to make marmalade. Spent the day after Boxing day making jam and biscuits again for New Year’s Eve. No need to give the recipe, but now is the time to also enjoy putting pomegranite seeds into salads and everywhere you can imagine, to [...]
Christmas eve in Rome & Christmas day Poggio Mirtetto
Posted by Ren on dicembre 26th, 2008 under In Rome and around, Recipes | Comment now »Light for Christmas
Posted by Ren on dicembre 24th, 2008 under In Rome and around | Comment now »Biscuits & pomegranites for Christmas
Posted by Ren on dicembre 24th, 2008 under In Rome and around | Comment now »Father Christmas
Posted by Ren on dicembre 24th, 2008 under In Rome and around | Comment now »Shahla’s trevise salad
From Treviso in Italy where a local poet described it as “un fiore che si mangia” – a flower to eat!
Leaf some trevise salad, put it on a plate,cover it with sliced pear, put crushed walnut on it, now your olive oil, vinegar, salt, pepper, and cover all that with a good amount [...]
English church services at Christmas in Rome
All Saints Anglican Church. Via del Babuino 153b, tel. 0636001881.
24 Dec. 17.00 Crib building service for children and the young at heart. 23.30 First Eucharist of Christmas
25 Dec. 10.30 Eucharist
S. Susanna Church. Via XX Settembre 15, tel. 0642014554.
24 Dec. 16.30 Children’s Christmas pageant family mass, 18.40 pre-vigil Mass Christmas Concert, 19.05 Vigil Christmas Eve Mass
25 [...]
Christmas Carol singing at the Oratorium
Carols 6:15 p.m., Dec. 24, Oratorio of Caravita, near the Pantheon. English Christmas Mass to follow at 7.
Via del Caravita, 7
The Jesuit Father Pietro Gravita gave birth to the building of the oratory in 1630 nearby the Collegio Romano. The construction works, financed by the faithful and noble families of the area, were completed in [...]
Posted by Ren on dicembre 23rd, 2008 under Music -Musicians -Art in Rome and around | Comment now »Posted by Ren on dicembre 21st, 2008 under Recipes | Comment now »
Ginger biscuits for Christmas
Made these the other day, hoping to put them in little transparent bags to offer friends, but I now have to make some more as they are almost all gone!
GINGERBREAD COOKIES
350g plain flour
2 tbspn ground ginger
1 tspn bicarbonate of soda
100gr butter or margarine
175gr brown sugar
1 egg
4 tbspns golden syrup (I used organic 100% corn malt [...]
street markets in Rome
SOTTO I PORTICI-Piazza Agusto Imperatore, Sunday 21st December-all day.
Small antiques, picture frames,vintage jewellery,bags, all sorts of fun thingsto hunt out for collectors and non!
antique picture frames
vintage bags& jewellery
ANTIQUARIATO- PIAZZA VERDI
Sunday- 9 to 20. Info: 068552773
“IL PARADISO DELLE SIGNORE”
Grand Hotel Parco dei Principi, via Frescobaldi 5, ai Parioli.Sunday 21st december 10,30-20. Info: 063337126 e 3277322170/71.
GARAGE SALE
Borghetto [...]
San Prospero Blues Gala 2008
Posted by Ren on dicembre 19th, 2008 under Music -Musicians -Art in Rome and around | Comment now »Spaghetti Blues
Posted by Ren on dicembre 19th, 2008 under Music -Musicians -Art in Rome and around | Comment now »Mister Peperoncino 2008
A Romenian chef devoured 485grams of Maiori piccantissimo !
At the 21st Torneo of Mangiatori di Peperoncino, in Como - the hottest torneo of the year!
Green soup with onion flat bread
CREAM GREEN FENNEL & LEAK SOUP
1 bulp fennel, 1 large stalk leek
!/2 cup cream (or yogurt)
White wine
1 cup water
olive oil
s & p
Chop the fennel and leeks ( up till one third of the green part)and leave in cold water. The leeks need thorough cleaning as they can have sand hidden between the leaves. Sauté [...]
What I would like for Christmas
A glimpse of the exciting and enlightening future that is possible, which will inspire you to become an agent of change. 31 leading visionaries of Pioneer Organizations share their insights on the emerging New Civilization based [...]
Posted by Ren on dicembre 16th, 2008 under Books to read on cooking and not | Comment now »Old Cape Tipsy cake – Home made at Barley Cottage
My sister, who is a caterer in England, sent me this wonderful South African ‘tipsy’ Christmas loaf. As we won’t be together this year, at least we can bite into something of hers!
The ‘tipsy’ of course means that it is so full of rum that it can be made and sent before Christmas!!
THIS IS HER [...]
Magical Christmas events in Rome
Christmas Magic in Rome from 5th December to 5th January.
- Magie di Natale: songs and Music
29 december, 5 January at 18.00 in Piazza San Lorenzo in Lucina
22 december at 17.00 - Scalinata di Piazza di Spagna.
23 december at 18.00 – Cornamuse Concert of the Rome Pipe Band in via Veneto/Porta Pinciana;
29 december at 18.00 at the [...]
Posted by Ren on dicembre 15th, 2008 under Music -Musicians -Art in Rome and around | Comment now »Christmas Tree
Posted by Ren on dicembre 15th, 2008 under In Rome and around | Comment now »The Tiber this Christmas
Posted by Ren on dicembre 15th, 2008 under In Rome and around | Comment now »Oratorio del Gonfalone-Christmas concert
Thursday 18th December 2008 Christmas Concert
via del Gonfalone 32
06.6875952 tickets euro 15 and euro 10
Concerto di Natale Dies Festa Colitur devozione e sospensione dei precetti nelle feste Medievali tra Natale ed [...]
Taste the world in Rome
From all over the world you will find cullinary delights from various countries in the world, dancing, art, games and music bringing the Esquilino area alive. The days are 13-18-20-21 december 2008. From 10.00-17.00 Mercato di Piazza Vittorio
13th December-Romania
18th December-Indian subcontinent
20th December-Arab world
21st December-Italy
Japanese market-circolo degli artisti
VINTAGE MARKET VS
MERCATINO GIAPPONESE
from 11.00 till 24.00
Entrance €1
Vintage clothing-independent productions-artisana-antiques
Sushi Bar, Typical sweets, japanese stuff, tea ceremonoy, Zen Art, Kimono, Manga, T.shirts, books.
Posted by Ren on dicembre 10th, 2008 under Food Fairs-Wine & Eating in Rome and around | Comment now »
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