Let Us introduce you to: Aunt Laura!
Aunt Laura has learned all of Lola's tricks (Gabriele's Grandma), and has a great sensibility when it comes to cooking.
She does not measure her ingredients (unless she is baking a cake), and like an alchemist is able to pull off the best lunches,
with the same ease she cooks for 6 or 20 people...she's a natural.
So, here you go, lunch is
served.
Today in the menu: Veal Rolls with Ham and Emmenthal
cheese and a traditional Caponata (Vegetable
Stew).
Buon Appetito
Debi & Gabriele
What is Eaten in One Week in the World
Finally, the Pappa Episode is up...Enjoy!!!
Florentine farmers used
to cook this soup using stale bread that was saved
during the week, garlic, tomatoes and basil from
their gardens: this is the most humble dish I know,
well, after boiled white rice...
Now, if you go to a restaurant, the tradition is
slowly disappearing, and it is becoming very hard to
find a good old recipe that works; that's why Deb and
I decided to feature in this first episode two very
dear friends of ours, Rosanna and Matteo. The good
recipes are still secretly hidden into very old
Tuscan homes, like The Farm Pacina, in Castelnuovo
Berardenga, a little town that rests on the
hills between the Chianti Area and Siena.
Pacina was originally an
Etruscan site,
then it became a convent in the nine hundreds and
after eight centuries the property was sold by the
church and became private. Today Pacina is an
Agriturismo and a Yoga retreat, Olive Oil and Wine
are produced and distributed in Tuscany...a place
worth a long weekend!
We Are Back!!!
we are back in Los Angeles.
Our trip has been a once in a lifetime experience:
Deb, Me and the Girls finally took possession and lived in the house that my grand father promised me over thirty years ago.
I gave my family a Tuscan Home, surrounded by Olive and Cypress trees, we had breakfast staring at Deers and Boars (yes damn it, boars!)
roaming in our garden, our fireplace worked twenty four seven for over two weeks, and we had a well deserved meat and wine Holiday.
We came back to an
overwhelming response to our People
Magazine piece...
The website have been slowing down a bit for this
reason, things are happening faster than we expected
and we are already working
on a new version of the site, optimized for this
amount of traffic, and also a mobile mini-blog, so
you can carry us everywhere...how lucky are you.
We have over seven hours of footage that we will
start editing for some new upcoming episodes to be
posted starting in a bit more than a week.
Welcome Back to Under The Tuscan Gun!!!
Gabriele and Debi