Delicious Blood Orange Lunch: Lucio’s Restaurant Blood Orange Season has started. I love seasonal food. I can’t resist celebrating the new season of fabulous things to eat and cook with. A friend of mine told me the other day that her Grandfather in Italy took her on a walk through the garden when she was…
Italian food
Colatura. Fish Water. Interesting Ingredients
This Colatura, Fish Water, has become incredibly popular around here in the last year. Anchovy water or “sauce” is made in the Campania region of Italy on the west coast. To be very specific it is made in the town of Cetara on the Amalfi Coast. This is a fishing port and traditional production of Colatura di…
More food, George Clooney and my night with 6 Italian Men
More food, George Clooney and my night with 6 Italian men When I went to Lake Como in Lombardy, Northern Italy, I hoped to visit George Clooney, no, really, I did…..but he wasn’t home. He has a house on Lake Como if you haven’t heard, and Lake Como was pretty much where I was staying….
Spaghettini with Broccoli Pesto
I can’t say I ever ate pasta of any kind with Broccoli Pesto when I lived in Italy. Food was either cooked by me in the kitchen at ” Villa Torre de Gataia ” near the Piazza Michelangelo, or it was eaten at the Vecchia Firenze. This restaurant is one of Florence’s oldest and the…
Individual Tiramisu for Easter
Individual Tiramisu is a cute treat and a great twist on a classic. imagine a Tiramisu all to yourself? I suppose everyone has a memory of the first time they tried Tiramisu. The layers of creamy mascarpone, laced with coffee and liqueur, coated in chocolate and cocoa. My first taste was in Florence, Italy. On…