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Scrivere il Cielo-Kites and Aquiloni

At the Japanese Cultural lnstitute in Rome

SCRIVERE IL CIELO
Kites and art work by Toshiharu Umeya & Anna Onesti
From 28th March – 9th May
Kite exhibition of master craftsman of Japanese tako, Toshiharu Umeya and works on oriental paper by the artist Anna Onesti.

Posted by Ren on marzo 31st, 2009 under In Rome and around | Comment now »

Zebra striped cake

4 eggs
250gr sugar
250ml (1 cup) milk
250ml (1 cup) vegetable oil
300gr flour
vanilla pdr,3 tspn baking powder or 1 tspn baking soda
2 tablspns dutch dark cocoa powder
Heat the oven to 180°c and grease a round pan lined with baking paper.Mix eggs and sugar until it looks like a cream. Add milk & oil, beat well. In another [...]

Posted by Ren on marzo 28th, 2009 under Recipes | Comment now »

International archeological festival in Rome

Archeological festival
CAPITELLO D’ORO AT THE AUDITORIUM
Auditorium Parco della Musica
Roma – Viale Pietro de Coubertin
From 27th to 29th march
free entrance/booking through Microcosmi Onlus. 06/70304119
info@microcosmieventi.it
From 10.00-13.00 Friday 27th
Pompeii. The Last Day – L’ultimo giorno di Pompei
English film directed by Peter Nicholson. Lasts: 58’
Production: BBC-TLC- NDR, France 2-: 2003
Presentation Museo Virtuale di Ercolano (MAV) *
Italy-director: Carlo Lizzani, Raffaele [...]

Posted by Ren on marzo 27th, 2009 under Films-Theatre in Rome | Comment now »

Easter egg

This is what the postman brought from Switzerland

and the card from Denmark!

Posted by Ren on marzo 26th, 2009 under In Rome and around | Comment now »

Papardelle al sugo d’anatra

Tonight papardelle with braised duck sauce

Posted by Ren on marzo 25th, 2009 under Recipes | Comment now »

Parco dei Bambini

From 28th March to 31st May check out the free activities for children in and around the Roman Parks-visits to vegetable gardens, learn about the creatures living in the water, fly your kites, laboratory of stories and much else. Click on www.parks.it for information

Posted by Ren on marzo 25th, 2009 under In Rome and around | Comment now »

Walks in Rome in March

Saturday 28th March at theRiserva Naturale Monte Mario :16.00
in via Gomenizza, 81 (Bus 30)
2 km visiting the historicall villas of Monte Mario Natural Reserve.
Visit Villa Mazzanti and Casali Mellino up to the Observatory.
Free of charge:- for booking and info Soc. Gaia 900 tel. 06.27800984 Mon-fri. 9.00-13.00/15.00-19.00;sat. 9.00-13.00

Sunday 29th March:
Monumento Naturale Parco della Cellulosa
10.00 via [...]

Posted by Ren on marzo 25th, 2009 under In Rome and around | Comment now »

Hidden gardens in Rome

From 21 march and through the month of April, many unknown and hidden gardens will be open to the public in and around the Lazio. ‘I giardini Nascosti has a rich program on www.giardinascosti.it
All tours leave fom Parco della Musica, Viale de Coubertin Rome from 9.00 returning 14.00 For booking and programe:- www.giardininascosti.i. Cost €30

Posted by Ren on marzo 24th, 2009 under In Rome and around | Comment now »

Soul food, Mercato di Via Baccina

Saturday 28th March from 16.00 to 18.00 at the

Mercato di via Baccina,Monti area

The Casa del Cibo invites you to come to a conference on the method of natural bread baking. Learn how to make your natural bread starter. There will be a video called ‘I Chicchi d’Oro’ a film on the country breadmakers.

Posted by Ren on marzo 22nd, 2009 under Food Fairs-Wine & Eating in Rome and around | Comment now »

Roman thirteen comandments

Translation:- Desire to work,jump on me
Work is tiring
One is born tired and lives for resting
Love your bed as you would yourself
If you see someone resting, help them
Don’t do today what you can do tomorrow
In a life time, try to do little and that little have others do it
When you feel the need to work, sit [...]

Posted by Ren on marzo 20th, 2009 under In Rome and around | Comment now »

Meat fair in Bellegra

Bellagra is 850mt above sea level between the Valle del Sacco & Valle dell’Aniene, Sunday 29th March
Starting from 10.00 with typical products on sale and on show. From 12.00 o’clock on for €15 you can help yourself to one of the delicious hot meat dishes, all produced by local farmers, wine, fresh bread and water.
HOW [...]

Posted by Ren on marzo 20th, 2009 under Food Fairs-Wine & Eating in Rome and around | Comment now »

Pumpkin and zucchini Pie

Slices of yellow pumpkin,3 zuchini sliced lengthwise
mixture of breadcrumbs,grated parmesan,s & p
olive oil.
This is a pie to go in the oven for 20′ at 180°. Oil sides and bottom of a glass casserole dish. Start layering with the breadcrumb mixture, pumpkin, zucchini then again the breadcrumb mixture. (you can also add some provelone cheese if [...]

Posted by Ren on marzo 20th, 2009 under Recipes | Comment now »

Nouruz in Rome

Came spring, and the garden made me blossom
And bloomed itself, displayed at my demand.
When it handed me luck’s cup and poured it deep,
I laid my head down, drunk, and fell asleep.
~Rumi

Thursday 19th at 19.00hrs the Associazione Culturale Italo Iraniana Alefba is organizing:-
To celebrate Nouruz, the birth of the Persian New Year, the Bookshop Rispoli [...]

Posted by Ren on marzo 19th, 2009 under Books to read on cooking and not | Comment now »

Easter eggs in Rome

Posted by Ren on marzo 18th, 2009 under In Rome and around, Shopping for food,clothes & fun | Comment now »

Camelia festival in Velletri

Japan, Cina and Thailand will be present at this beautiful Fair of over 400 varieties of camelia flowers. There will also be stands of local food products.
To get to Velletri – take the bus to Ciampino railway station (every 30 minutes) and then take a train to Velletri (every 30 – 60 minutes, takes about [...]

Posted by Ren on marzo 18th, 2009 under Food Fairs-Wine & Eating in Rome and around | Comment now »

Creative Art Fair in Calcata

How to get there:- by car take Cassia Bis SS2-exit Sette Vene-follow signs for Calcata.
By bus: Take rail train from Ferrovia Nord in Rome to Saxa Rubra bus terminal.Take Cotral bus to Calcata.

Posted by Ren on marzo 17th, 2009 under In Rome and around | Comment now »

Palombo,hound fish in ‘guazzetto’

Luca’s dish
800gr palombo cut into small steaks.
tomatoe sauce (or fresh pacchino)
garlic, 1 small onion, olive oil, s & p
parsley, smalll glass white wine..

Palombo, or hound fish is a firm, inexpensive fish.Aparently a member of the shark family. The steaks can be fried in batter of egg and breadcrumbs, cooked in a stew with green peas, [...]

Posted by Ren on marzo 17th, 2009 under Recipes | Comment now »

almond cake with mandarin juice

1 cup white flour, 1/2 cup almond flour
baking powder for 500gr weight
salt, 3 eggs, 3/4 cup sugar,3 tbspns olive oil
tspn vanilla extract,zest of 1 lemon,small cup mandarin juice,toasted sliced almonds
Heat the oven 175°. Grease a round,loose bottom cake tin with butter.Grind the almonds into flour and mix with baking owder, salt and flour. In a [...]

Posted by Ren on marzo 16th, 2009 under Recipes | Comment now »

Ravioli di magro

Posted by Ren on marzo 15th, 2009 under Recipes | Comment now »

Francophonie in Rome

Posted by Ren on marzo 14th, 2009 under Food Fairs-Wine & Eating in Rome and around, In Rome and around | Comment now »

streets of Rome photos

graffiti on the Lungotevere waiting for the bus

a taste of Schiaparelli?

water on the Tevere at night

My favourite Palm tree

Art in the window

8p.m.march,rowing on the Tiber

houseboat on the Tiber

the two church’s at dusk

Posted by Ren on marzo 14th, 2009 under In Rome and around | Comment now »

FAI-Fondo ambiente Italiano

Saturday 28 and Sunday 29th March – FAI,Fondo Ambiente Italiano (Italian National Trust) opens 580 monuments in 210 cities all over Italy.

For information on the programe www.fondoambiente.it

Posted by Ren on marzo 13th, 2009 under In Rome and around | Comment now »

The Buzz about Bees by Jurgen Tautz

“With spectacularly beautiful colour photographs and an easy text The Buzz about Bees tells the story of honeybees in a new perspective. Based on the latest data, from his own research group, Jürgen Tautz provides a wonderful insight into the realms of bees. In contrast to the view of colonies as perfect societies of selfless [...]

Posted by Ren on marzo 13th, 2009 under Books to read on cooking and not | Comment now »

Tiella of squid from Gaeta

Tiella is not a pizza.The name comes from ‘teglia’ meaning a pan.In olden times the left overs were put between two pieces of dough in a pan with sides to make a sort of pie.
For the pastry_
500gr white flour,
20gr yeast, salt q.b.
3 spoons extravirgin olive oil
200gr luke warm water
Mix the yeast with the water and [...]

Posted by Ren on marzo 12th, 2009 under Recipes | 1 Comment »

Pasta and fagioli in Lenola, Latina

Festa di San Giovanni

“Pett la’ i fasuli”

Lenola in Latina has a Food and country Fair on the 19th March.Come and taste the homemade ‘pasta and fagioli’.
How to get there:- from Roma, S.S. 148 to Terracina, go on the Via Appia then S.S. 637 until Lenola; OR- l’Autostrada Milano-Napoli, -so Roma Est or Roma [...]

Posted by Ren on marzo 12th, 2009 under Food Fairs-Wine & Eating in Rome and around | Comment now »

Grattachecca-Roman ice lolly

Are you ready for a grattachecca?
Grattachecca is the name of a popular cold sort of Roman ice lolly you find in kiosks around Rome, consisting of scratched ice flavoured with fruit juice. Similar to Sicilian Granita but coarser and less ’sofisticated’.The origins of Grattachecca date back to ancient Roman dictator Quintus Fabius Maximus who would [...]

Posted by Ren on marzo 12th, 2009 under Food Fairs-Wine & Eating in Rome and around | Comment now »

Japanese garden in Rome

The Japanese garden

The next opening of the japanese garden at the Insitute of Culture in Rome is from 27th March to 30 May, every friday (15.00-17.00) & saturday (10.00-12.00) .The visits will be cancelled if it rains and a maximum of 15 people are welcome for 30′ at a time. Booking suggested at [...]

Posted by Ren on marzo 11th, 2009 under In Rome and around | Comment now »

Festa di Primavera e sagra degli gnocchi

Sunday 29 march 2009; “Festa di Primavera e Sagra degli gnocchi”;Nazzano (Rm):
How to get there:-

by S.P. Tiberina up to about Km. 34,000;
by Via Salaria until you get to the A1 junction to Florence; follow the Highway till exit Roma Nord-Fiano Romano and go ahead in the direction Nazzano and Torrita Tiberina;
by GRA until you get [...]

Posted by Ren on marzo 11th, 2009 under Food Fairs-Wine & Eating in Rome and around | Comment now »