Ingredients (serves 4) . A fillet of pork of about 600/800 g . A marinade consisting of: 1 peeled lemon cut into slòices, 1 carrot, 1 stick of celery and 1 onion chopped together, a piece of cinnamon, a spring of thyme, 6/7 grains of coriander , a glasso f Read more…
I’ve always loved the Christmas Holidays both here and in the U.S. I have to admit, however, that in Italy there’s a much more festive feeling for a longer period and so many more traditions. There are two i’d like to mention. One is the live Nativity representation in Barga Read more…
Ingredients: (serves 4) .“Dried cannellini” beans 200 gr. . Fresh porcini mushrooms if is possible from Garfagnana 200 gr. . 2 small potatoes . 4 garlic cloves . A bunch of fresh nipitella (herb similar to majoram and mint, very popular in Tuscany) . 4 cups of meath broth . Read more…
Again i want to remind everyone that there isa a free lending library in Lucca! Yes i know you can’t believe it but it’s true, and it’s been there since 2005. I’d like to invite everyone who is interested to use the “melograno Lending Library” part of the local circoscrizione Read more…
Ingredients: 1 chicken weighing about 1 kg; one bottle of Montecarlo Bianco wine; one 400 g (approx.) bunch of Trebbiano Toscano grapes; a little podere cinnamon; 3 glasses of brandy, salt, pepper, a little white flour, some bay leale. Marinade the grapes in the brandy and cinnamon. Place the grapes Read more…