It has been so warm hot here in Umbria recently that we are doing everything we can do cool down, including taking a quick trip to one of my favorite places in the mountains, Castelluccio. One of the most famous centerpieces of the area is the Piano Grande, a huge 16 square kilometer plain surrounded by the barren Sibillini mountain range that once was a glacier lake. This entire area falls in the Parco Nazionale dei Monti Sibillini, one of the most recently established Italian national parks,... Read the whole entry »
This month has been unseasonable warm here in Umbria, and we have been regularly getting temperatures in the 90′s for weeks. When it is this warm, I find it difficult to spend too much time in the kitchen, and usually prefer to grill outdoors, or to do much of my meal preparation in the morning before the day gets too hot. I love vegetable salads in the summer on very warm days as they are not too heavy, and yet are very satisfying. On a recent trip to the grocery store, I spied bunches... Read the whole entry »
Our season has now officially started here in Umbria at Il Casale di Mele and with the high temperatures we’ve had lately I am always on the look out for easy to assemble summer dishes. We do a lot of entertaining here in Umbria, and along with the meals I prepare for guests upon request, I like to have a number of “go to” dishes that I know I can pull together easily without a lot of fuss and that everyone will love. This dish is a recent invention that basically came... Read the whole entry »
Every since I made my first trip to Italy back in 1987, one of my favorite seafood dishes has been sautéed mussels, often called Zuppa di Cozze. After my first taste of this dish in a seaside restaurant along the coast of Italy, I knew I had to learn to make it myself at home. I have made this dish often ever since as it is such an easy dish to make, and mussels are very inexpensive compared to many other types of seafood. We make steamed mussels sometimes in tomato sauce, and sometimes in... Read the whole entry »
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