Food and Flavours

19/01/2018

January : When the future months appear like a blank sheet of paper, a clean slate. A time for renewal and a time to re evaluate our lives.

16/12/2017

I can highly recommend this course. I've experienced many day courses personally. Great value and venue ! Book now

Learn how to grow, cook & preserve your own food during this wonderfully interesting and delicious holiday! Fermentation- Dehydration- Smoking and much more!

25/11/2017

I wander how easy it is for others to eat both local and organic. Guess we're blessed with these gorgeous boxes of bio veg supplied by our organic farmer neighbours. Run by a dynamic couple who gave up city life in Milano to start afresh here.

07/11/2017

Christmas cake English style recipe but with our own dried figs and raisins. Now packed up to mature until Xmas when it will be festively decorated. Photographed in the morning autumn sunlight streaming through my converted stable kitchen. Have to make the most of the suns rays/ now there is a storm brewing bringing snow on the mountains

07/11/2017

Written by one of my favourite bloggers who is based in far north of Le Marche. Look her up, her recipes and photos are wonderful.

Make your kitchen feel like a scene from Under the Tuscan Sun.

07/11/2017

Montemonaco is a small village located in the Sibillini National Park, that is part of the region of Ascoli Piceno. For the last 40 years, Montemonaco has had this amazing, Festival of the Chestnut…

28/10/2017

Autumn in Le Marche. Still picking veg from the summer plot / peppers, tomatoes, basil, borlotti etc. October has been beautiful and wouldn't want to be anywhere else

17/10/2017

Our olive oil! Pure, organic, cold pressed. Truly . The end result of lots of hard work but soooo worth it. Tastes green, grassy and peppery. Makes you cough which is a good sign. Full of antioxidants ... will now be poured on everything

14/10/2017

Olives olives olives. My view for the next week or so. Sunny days in the olive grove is a privileged life. I'm truly thankful!

09/10/2017

Quince, the fruit of love, associated with Aphrodite, makes a wonderful addition to a basic olive oil cake.
In the nonsense rhyme of Edward Lear, the owl and the pussycat ' dined on mince and slices of quince
Which they are with a runcible spoon
And hand in hand on the edge of the sand
They danced by the light of the moon'