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Posted by Ren on gennaio 28th, 2010 under Recipes | Comment now »Italy Bed & Breakfasts by Nicole Franchini
Nicole Franchini, a long-term resident of Italy, who has personally travelled far afield all over Italy to search and find out all the treasures in this book, upholding the Karen Brown standards of quality, welcome, and charm in her choices of places to stay.
Posted by Ren on gennaio 28th, 2010 under Books to read on cooking and not | Comment now »Vini Naturali a Roma
Posted by Ren on gennaio 28th, 2010 under Food Fairs-Wine & Eating in Rome and around | Comment now »Gruyere cheese and baked potatoes
The lovely pinkish potatoes are in season in Italy and a good cheese to eat with oven cooked potatoes is Gruyere cheese. Find a ’salumeria’ that specializes in unpasturized cheeses (like Gianni, in Via Tacito). It is of course more expensive than the regular cheese because few producers make it. The cows go to pasture [...]
Posted by Ren on gennaio 28th, 2010 under Recipes | Comment now »Pasta e ceci in minestrone
250gr chick peas soaked overnight
6 peeled baby tomatoes,2 cloves crushed garlic
250 gr short pasta
s & p, olive oil
Water
You can also crush the pasta in a paper bag or break up spaghetti if that is all you have.
Cook your chickpeas in abundent salty water for about 40′ or until soft. Drain and keep the water.Take half [...]
Roasted pear tart
Roll of thin pastry (I buy mine frozen at the Organic food shops)
8 quite hard pears
brown sugar
red wine
cinnemon dust/or sticks
6 cloves
Peel all the pears and place in a large oven proof dish with all the ingredients and cook at 170°, turning all the time until the pears are ready and a nice syrupy sauce remains.
Cool, [...]
Artichokes romane with herbs
These Roman artichokes are typical of Italy and can be found at the markets all ready prepared or you can buy them and prepare them yourself. If so, you take out about two layers of outer leaves, cut through about 2centimetres of the top tips.Cut the stalks at 5cms and you will see that there [...]
Posted by Ren on gennaio 28th, 2010 under Recipes | Comment now »In defence of Food by Michael Pollan
1-Eat food: food defined
don’t eat anything your great-grandmother wouldn’t recognize as food
avoid food products containing ingredients that are unfamiliar, unpronounceable, more than five in number or that include high-fructose corn syrup
avoid food products that make health claims
shop the peripheries of the supermarket and stay out of the middle
get out of the supermarket whenever possible
2 Mostly [...]
The voice of Istanbul in photos
Turkey will be the capital of European culture during 2010, so we can start to get prepared and go see this show in Rome
Turkey- TURCHIA – UFFICIO CULTURA E INFORMAZIONI
Piazza della Repubblica, 55/56 – 00185 ROMA
PHOTOGRAPHIC EXHIBIT – LA VOCE DI ISTANBUL
From 26th January to 12th February
FROM 9.00 – 17.00 ( monday to friiday
free entrance
Hazelnut chocolate cake for Marinella
Every first third Sunday of the month Sotto i Portici in Piazza Agusto Imperiale, ‘Collezionando’ my favourite market come rain or shine is bustling with wonderful treasures to hunt. My friend Marinella restores beautiful frames and sells paintings and objects that she hunts out in France. Another Capricorn birthday this month and we celebrated her [...]
Posted by Ren on gennaio 22nd, 2010 under In Rome and around, Recipes | Comment now »Beef straccetti with rucola and baby tomatoes
For three
400gr very thin cut beef flank, cut with the knife
10 baby tomatoes cut in half
bunch of rucola, olive oil
s & p,2 crushed garlic cloves, chilli pepper
Have your butcher cut the straccetti (literally, little rags) with a knife, very thin. Crush the garlic with a flat hand or under the blade of a wide knife [...]
Colline Romane gastronomy
Take a trip to one of the many towns outside of Rome to taste the real authentic dishes of Lazio.
The Colline Romane District represents the first territorial district of excellence in Lazio .One doesn’t invent good cuisine, one inherits it. In the Roman Hills (38 townships east and south of Rome), gastronomy has ancient roots. [...]
International day of Italian cuisines
An irresistible worldwide ola of tagliatelle al ragù bolognese will be the protagonist of the 2010 International Day of Italian Cuisines (IDIC) scheduled for the next 17th January.
Pasta alla Carbonara
Recipe serves one
60 to 80 gm spaghetti freshly cooked al dente
1 tablespoon Extra virgin olive oil
30gm pancetta or guanciale
1 or 2 eggs
25 gm freshly grated [...]
Sofia’s flowers
Posted by Ren on gennaio 13th, 2010 under In Rome and around | Comment now »Alex’s chicken in Nero d’Avola wine
For four.
6 large pieces chicken,thigh and breast
10 small whole peeled onions
3 chopped onions,bay leaf,thyme,parsley,2cloves garlic
12 champignon sliced, bottle Nero d’Avola red wine
flour,100gr butter,s & p
Basmati rice
Melt some butter in a large pan,brown the chicken pieces in batches and keep warm. lightly fry onions until brown, add garlic, herbs, stir a bit and add wine. Add [...]
The best pizza in Rome at Pizzarium
Organic flours and natural leavening (pasta madre). Gabriele searched among the housewives of the south of Italy to make the success and digestibility of these pizza’s. All coked in a bread oven, crispy and topped with squash flowers, parma ham, cod fish, mushrooms, home made tomatoe sauce, fresh mozzarella and anything that comes to his [...]
Posted by Ren on gennaio 10th, 2010 under Food Fairs-Wine & Eating in Rome and around | Comment now »zucca and medlars from Molise
Danillo and Saria bringing me pumpkin from Molise!
and Medlars!
Posted by Ren on gennaio 10th, 2010 under Food Fairs-Wine & Eating in Rome and around | Comment now »Natural Wine tasting in Rome
30 & 31 January 2010 from 13,00 – 20,30 — 1 February 2010 from 10,00 – 14,30
Hotel Columbus – Via della Conciliazione, 33 – info: 338/8549619 – tizianagallo@libero.it -
Sacred Music
Wednesday 6th January at 21.00 at Sala Accademica del Pontificio Istituto di Musica Sacra,
Piazza Sant’Agostino,20a .
Musical improvisation of arabic and maghreb poetry from Marzouk Mejri and Livia Mazzanti on organ and recitalfrom the poet Hassan Hajmi-
Free entrance
2010 Roma
Posted by Ren on gennaio 5th, 2010 under In Rome and around | Comment now »Befana-Epiphany in Rome
“Viva la Befana” (“Long Live the Befana”), the traditional historic and folkloristic costumed parade which will bring to the capital many musical bands, folkloristic groups, in a historical commemoration with hundreds people who will parade following the Wise Men and the Befana along Via della Conciliazione.
Posted by Ren on gennaio 5th, 2010 under In Rome and around | Comment now »books for Christmas
Bad Thoughts – A Guide to Clear Thinking
A book for people who like argument. Witty, contentious, and passionate, it exposes the methods with which we [...]
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