 We are a family that really loves pizza which is evident when you take into fact we have a pizza oven in our house here in Umbria, and another one in our house in Florida. We make pizza at least once a week, and often when we are entertaining, and I have been tweaking my pizza dough for years. My dough has always been good, but I keep telling myself that it could be just a little bit better and now, after working on it again recently, I think I finally have the perfect dough. This pizza dough...
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I am always on the lookout for new ideas of things I can prepare for our guests during our wine tasting evenings here in Umbria as I tend to get bored making the same thing over and over and love trying out new recipes. Recently, my husband and I dined out at Villa Selva, a great country house just minutes from our farmhouse that serves wonderful meals. One of the appetizers we were served that evening was this Stromboli like item that was bread rolled around cured meat and cheese before... Read the whole entry »
This past week was another scorcher here in Umbria and on Thursday while everyone else headed out to watch the Italian soccer game, I stayed home and put my feet in the pool, read a good book, and thoroughly enjoyed a bowl of this scrumptious peach sorbet I made earlier that afternoon trying to cool off. I love making frozen treats such as this one as they require few ingredients, and if you have a gelato maker are a breeze to make. The trick to making a delicious fruit sorbet is to use very... Read the whole entry »
On our recent trip to Venice, for lunch, we met up with a FaceBook friend who lives just outside of Venice, Monica Cesarato. Monica does a cicchetti (Venetian Style tapas) tour so we knew that she could lead us to some great Venetian bacari, or wine bars, where we could enjoy some cicchetti with a glass of the local white wine. Monica ended up taking us to three of her favorite bacari where we shared some delicious Venetian seafood specialties, and at the last bacari she had us order the... Read the whole entry »
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