Lemon mousse: . 3 eggs . the juice of 3 lemons plus grated rind of one . 100 mg sugar . 6 gm gelatine . 350 gm whipping cream Separate the eggs and put the yolks and the whites into different mixing bowls. Put the whipping crea minto a third Read more…
For the chick pea soup 350 gm chick peas 1 stick celery, roughly chopped 4 shallots ,thinly sliced 1 carrot, roughly chopped 4 dessertspoons olive oil A sprig of fresh thyme A sprig of fresh rosemary 3 fresh sage leaves 2 litres water salt For the vegetable tartare 1/2 sick Read more…
250 gm tagliatelle, 300 gm of peeled tiger prawns, 3 courgettes cut into small pieces, 100 ml cream, fresh flat leaf parseley, chopped, a squashed garlic clove in camicia – this means that the garlic clove hasn’t been peeled and still has its shirt on! Olive oil, freshly ground salt Read more…
Olives, those beautiful silvery trees, have today become a visual metaphor for Italy. Nevertheless, seldom does anyone come to Italy solely for the purpose of growing olives and making olive oil. Most foreign-born cultivators naively back into it somehow. Olives usually enter their lives on a ” bit of land Read more…
The “Wine Trails of Tuscany” run through magnificent wine-growing areas which, apart from the obvious vineyards and wineries, offer an integrated tourist package of cultural, historical and natural attractions. These trails are also a means of fostering rural development and of promoting so-called “Enotourism”, that is, setting wine production in Read more…