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birra

for dinner tonight: nostrano cervogia artiginale… i added rosemary and garlic to my zucchini flower tonight. yum.

sexy verdura

la ragazza at the produce store today thought it was funny that i wanted this congiunto pomodoro:

Janet and Kristen come to visit

Last night we made a late night run to pick up our friends Janet and Kristen at the Florence train station. As usual, I got a little lost without the GPS trying to find the station. One wrong turn there and you’re an hour late. They patiently waited and were happy to see us. We […]

fusione di percoche

Bella says that when she visits her grandma, they have a tradition of making apple pie. It’s true, my mom’s pies are really good, the best I’ve ever had. The ones I remember most often and love are peach, pecan and lemon meringue. I crave them… the gourmet pies from the upscale grocery stores aren’t […]

more lucca graffiti

in the tunnel from the Duomo to the train station

pancakes

With all these eggs and our fabulous confetture di fragole, plus having obtained baking powder… In Moscow things like that were hard to find, unless you were willing to pay 10x for them in the hard currency stores, so I imported a lot of baking ingredients. But I remember in Germany having to get it […]

il fuoco sulla montagna

The one time i go out without my camera… and there’s a fire on the mountain! I left bella watching with the neighbors, drove home, got my camera and walked back down. I found the short cuts down the hill and walked through the town of Cerreto, which Katya and I had driven through in […]

fiora di zucchine

In our afternoon shopping trip to town we found beautiful zucchini with their flowers. So of course we had to have that for dinner! Bella also picked out tortellini at Self Service and cooked them up for me. Can you believe how red those pomodori are? And if you could just smell how fabulous my […]

zona vietata

On Wednesday, Bella and I took a break from work and started to walk toward Oneta on the road where the race ran. I’d never walked this part of the road so I had no idea how far it was, and since I had a call in 45 minutes, the plan was to walk 15 […]

comfort food

Today was a full day of work. No sightseeing at all. After my evening conference calls, we went to I Macelli for dinner, again. They know us so well that they bring our drinks before we even order. Tonight we had our old favorites: antipasto al tartufo and ravioli di castagne, with torta al formaggio […]