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Walnut & coffee cake
1 Cup whole wheat flour
cream of tartar for 500r
1 Cup brown/white sugar mixed
1/4 tsp fine salt, 3/4 cup olive oil, 4 eggs, separated
1/4 cup espresso, cooled ,1/2 small carton thick yogurt
100gr chopped walnuts
Pre-heat the oven to 190°C. Grease and line a 22cm loaf tin with oven paper. Mix flour, salt and cream of tartar. [...]
Rice & vegetable terrine pie
Make some cooked rice. I used Italian Arborio as it stays nice and firm. Cook together with frozen peas. When done, rinse under cold water.
Put 2 zucchini cut lenghwise, two eggplants cut in strips, 2 whole peeled tomatoes,( or leave the peel on as it will be easy to take off once cooked), two seeded [...]
Posted by Ren on agosto 31st, 2009 under Recipes | Comment now »Tomatina festival
Yesterday 29th August in Bunol,Valencia the Festival La Tomatina,one huge tomato flight started early in the morning when everyone breakfasts on Chorizo and Rose wine.
By mid morning it is everyone to themselvs as the event starts to tomato slinging.The rules are that the tomatoes must be squashed before throwing and that everyone has to clean [...]
La Tonna in Bagnoreggio (vt)
Sunday 13 september 2009
In the ancient city of Civita di Bagnoreggio ‘La Tonna’, a bit like the Palio of Siena but with donkeys. The patient little animals that were the most important forms of transportation in the hilly towns of Italy. In the pagan times, the donkey was considered a highly intelligent animal.The name tonna [...]
Rome for free
On the last Sunday of every month, the Vatican Museum is free. On those days, the doors open at 08:30 and the last entry is 12:30 (the museums close at 14:30).
EC citizens aged 18 years and under or 65 and over are entitled to free admission to most of the museums and monuments of Rome [...]
Art for free in Rome
Michelangelo.
Moses. Inside San Pietro in Vincoli. Via Cavour. From 7am-12.3 and 15.30-18.00 daily Metro B Cavour.
La Pietà.St Peter’s Basilica.from 7am-19.00 daily. Metro A Ottaviano.
Cristo della Minerva.The chapel inside the church of Santa Maria sopra Minerva.
Bernini.Ecstasy of Santa Teresa,Church of Santa Maria della Vittoria,Via xx Settembre 17,corner of Largo S.Susanna. 8.30-11.ooam and 15.30-18.00 (august from 7.30-11.30)
Baldacchino [...]
Posted by Ren on agosto 27th, 2009 under In Rome and around | Comment now »Il Fiore del Meraviglioso
La Casa dei Teatri, The House of Theatre, is in the Villino Corsini of Villa Pamphilj from 12.30 alle 19.00.
IL FIORE DEL MERAVIGLIOSO
In program from 28 may to 6 september 2009 curated by Yosuke Taki,Photographs, masks,manifestos, videos all testimonies of the historical japanese theatre.
Represented by,Maria Pia D’Orazi, Fabio Mangolini, Tadashi Ogasawara, Bonaventura Ruperti, Nicola [...]
The Amateur Gourmet by Adam Roberts
Take a law student getting by on fast food and becoming a passionate cook and you have Adam Roberts. Great inspiration to see that there is an alternative to blue collar lifestyle and litigation! Wonderful and really makes you understand that cooking is FUN.
Posted by Ren on agosto 26th, 2009 under Books to read on cooking and not | Comment now »Cineclub Alphaville in Pignetto area
21.00 in Via A. da Giussano 54,
25/8
The yards, J.Gray,USA,2000, 120’, noir metropolitano
26/8
Kontroll, N.Antal, Ungheria, 2004,106’, thriller
27/8
Breaking news, J.Too, HK-Cina, 2004, 90’, poliziesco
28/8
Il cameraman e l’assassino, R. Belvaux, A. Bonzel, B. Poelvoorde, Belgio, 1992, 95’, dramatic
29/8
Cloverfield, M. Reeves, Usa, 2007, 81’, horror
30/8
Le mele d’Adamo, A.T.Jensen,Danimarca, 2005, 94’, nero
Info 3393618216/3388639465
alphaville2001@libero.it
www.cineclubalphaville.com
summer reading in Tuscany
Some of the books I picked up at the OPEN DOOR BOOKSHOP in Trastevere for summer reading.Some new and some old!
Chronicles the public careers and private lives of the men who wielded absolute power over Rome.
In this novel the author highlights not only the contrast between Japan and the Western World, but the barriers that [...]
Posted by Ren on agosto 25th, 2009 under Books to read on cooking and not | Comment now »Salmon trout
Salmon trout is an inexpensive fresh water fish. Its delcate pink flesh comes from its diet. This once is about 650 gr in weight.Have the fishmonger clean it.
Cut off the head,tail and all fins etc. Cover with water in a pot and add some celery,onion and salt.Cover and simmer for about 10′ being careful not [...]
water
Posted by Ren on agosto 24th, 2009 under In Rome and around | Comment now »Italian summer
Posted by Ren on agosto 24th, 2009 under In Rome and around | Comment now »quiche of onions,anchovies & tomato
Just before closing the fridge in the country to come to Rome, the last lunch was with left overs.
1 cup breadcrumbs, 4 onions cooked until soft in olive oil, 2 eggs, s & p-all mixed together and put into a case of rolled out pastry.
Cut out rounds of tomatoes and make a design with the [...]
Strobes in the Upper Maremma
Posted by Ren on agosto 23rd, 2009 under In Rome and around | Comment now »Festad’Africa
“Festad’Africa” Roma, Civitavecchia, Ladispoli, Sacrofano, ending at the Paladium Theatre in Rome in September from 21 august to 15 september 2009.
Festa d’Africa is a celebration of contemporary African culture, held at the Palladium theatre in Rome. The festival primarily looks at the theatre scene, but film screenings, discussions on contemporary African drama and live music [...]
Ennio Moricone at Villa Borghese
The films at the Casa del Cinema for the Ennio Morricone Festival are all shown on the outside screen and free of charge.But of course they are in Italian.
Monday 3 august- at 21.00
Omaggio a Ennio Morricone
C’ERA UNA VOLTA IN AMERICA di Sergio Leone (USA, Italia, 1984, 227’)
Tuesday 4 August – 21.00
IL FEDERALE di Luciano Salce [...]
Caponata & peperonata
For the peperonata you will need 5 colourful peppers, one large onion and some garlic. Prepare the peppers by cutting them in half, seed and take off any white pith inside. Slice the onion and sauté with the garlicin olive oil until almost transparent, put the peppers skin side down on top of the onion [...]
Posted by Ren on agosto 3rd, 2009 under Recipes | Comment now »Anchovies al forno
Have your fishmonger clean the anchovies. Dribble some olive oil on the oven dish and layer the fish.Make a mixture of breadcrumbs, grated rind of one organic lemon, a few olives cut into pieces and stoned, s & p. Spread on the fish and bake at 175° for 15′. This can also be eaten tepid [...]
Posted by Ren on agosto 3rd, 2009 under Recipes | Comment now »summer vegetable pie
Zucchini,eggplants,tomatoes,onions (optional),garlic (optional),basil or oregano herbs,s & p,little cream cheese,one large cup roughly grated breadcrumbs,olive oil. Heat the oven at 175°.
Start by cutting eggplant and zucchini in rounds or lengths. Put in a collander,sprinkle with salt,put a weight on top (a stone on a plate) and let them sweat for about one hour. Start by [...]
Posted by Ren on agosto 1st, 2009 under Recipes | Comment now »A fortune Teller Told me by Tiziano Terzani
If you can’t travel right now and are stuck in the heat of Rome,this is a lovely book to read.It takes you across Asia and you can travel right next to Tiziano!
Terzani’s odyssey across Asia is full of revelations and reflections on the dramatic changes underway in Asia. Having spent two decades on the continent, [...]
Capers, Olives,Nuts & Spices
Now that the heat is on in Rome, no body wants to cook too much. So you need to spice up that tomatoe salad with little green capers from Pantelleria, olives from all over the Mediterranean area, nuts to add extra protein to your green salads, dried chives for the potatoe salad, spices for those [...]
Posted by Ren on agosto 1st, 2009 under Food Fairs-Wine & Eating in Rome and around | Comment now »today’s picture
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