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September 7, 2015
roasted potato salad
I meant to get this recipe for potato salad up before today. Because today is potato salad day right? Labor Day in the States, which means cookouts and picnics. Which means potato salad. None of which are Italian things by any stretch of the imagination. Which is kind of the excuse I’m using to explain...
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September 1, 2015
la cruccola {acqualoreto – umbria}
I think there is an image that most people have when they plan a vacation to the Italian countryside. Whether they are staying at a rented villa, a b&b or a hotel, they hope to stumble across a little restaurant, in a small village. As they order carafes of local wine, they’ll sit back and...
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August 30, 2015
tiramisù
I didn’t have many goals for this past month. Yes, I did a lot of ‘research’ for Eat Umbria. But that meant going out to lunches and dinners with friends and family. Not the hardest job imaginable. I also kept up the blog, but even then I’ve been doing it a bit less than usual....
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August 26, 2015
week long food tour in rome {oct + nov}
So often when I post something delicious on Facebook or Instagram, the comments that I receive are along the lines of ‘Can I come too?’ or ‘Is there a place set for me?’ Yes, you can. The answer is: Yes. Would you like to join Sophie and me for a week-long , food-filled adventure in...
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August 24, 2015
asso di coppe {truck stop dining in deruta}
Buying ceramics is hard, hard work. First you’ve got to drive there. Then there is the whole decision making process. And then lugging them all the way to the car. Of course, I’m kidding. There’s few things I love better than going ceramic shopping in Deruta. But one thing I do always mess up on...
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August 23, 2015
two summer pasta recipes {tomatoes}
My theory of summer entertaining is a very simple one and usually involves a combination of the following two concepts: easy and tomatoes. Summer cooking should never involve long bouts in the kitchen. And you’d be silly not to involve tomatoes in absolutely every meal possible. While most of the results of this equation are...
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August 21, 2015
pasta e ceci {summer version}
Pasta e ceci (pasta with chickpeas) is usually a winter dish. A bowl full of thick, stick-to-your-ribs starch, barely held together by a tomatoey ‘soup’ that is more like a loose sauce. You can even make it ahead of time, letting almost all of the liquid get absorbed by the pasta and chickpeas, so that...
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August 18, 2015
FIMA {ceramics – deruta}
If there is one person who needs more ceramics in her life even less than I do, it’s my friend Jane. Yet…there we were, last week, in Deruta ‘just looking.’ Yes, I admit, we fully enable each other. But this time around we were actually on a mission. Jane had to find a wedding gift,...
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August 17, 2015
lunch in umbria {nancy silverton}
Whenever I go over to someone’s house for a meal I always learn something new. Often it’s a recipe, sometimes it’s a technique, and if I’m lucky it’s simply a new way of entertaining. Then there are the rare times that I hit all three at once. I shouldn’t have been so surprised that this...
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August 10, 2015
colatura di alici {spaghetti}
I may not be very good at things like skiing, swimming or running, but if there was an olympic competition for multi-tasking I would win all the medals. I think it’s become almost impossible for me to do just one thing, and one thing only. I realize that as a woman, wife and mother that...
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