For our first festa this summer, we made Pollo Pieve and stuffed zucchini flowers.
We rolled small chicken breasts around a few pieces of red onion, garlic and aged pecorino di Garfagnana, wrapped them in prosciutto toscana, then fried them in a polenta-chestnut flour batter, sprinkled with fresh rosemary. We did the same with the flowers, only without the prosciutto.
To go along with dinner, Patricia and Bella made a wonderful salad with fresh basil, tomatoes and mozzarella. And of course fresh pasta, melone e proscuitto…
First stop on Estate 2010 en Italie: The Art Monastery Project and their American Country Music Festival. Jennie Knaggs and her cowboys were excellent! Just like Bakersfield & Hee Haw days…
We discovered a new bike store where the sports clothing store used to be (it moved last year) – and wouldn’t you know they had exactly the bike I need: a 24 speed mountain bike for a relatively affordable price. I bought the bike and rode it home, while david did the shopping and we arrived at the same time.
Our first walk through town this year: We slept well through the morning and made it out around 4 pm, just as everyone else was waking up from their afternoon naps. Perfect cappuccino at il Gecko, and then a visit to the produce man for fresh oranges and over the bridge. On the way back we saw this cute little thing roving around…
After a satisfyingly low-key pizzeria dinner in Rome last night, my wonderful traveling companion Beth left early this morning. I spent the morning working in the hotel, checked out and caught the next train to Florence. I had left my black truffle in the car, seeing no need to carry it around. The truffle smell had filled the car!
So tonight is my very first dinner alone in my apt EVER (after three years, oddly enough). I picked up some fresh ravioli to have with my grated black truffle, and some broccoli, steamed with shallots, garlic and prosciutto toscana, and threw on some local pecorino stagionato — of which Beth had bought an entire wheel at Self Service!
Now looking forward to spending some quality time with my village.
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