November 20th, 2007 by Administrator
I’ve heard various people say that meatballs are an American invention. Believe me, they eat meatballs in Italy too, but like other Italian dishes, they’re regional. We once went to a sagra where they served boar meatballs! Anyway, here they’re called polpette or, in the local dialect, brasciol’.
Here’s my recipe which is partly […]
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November 19th, 2007 by Administrator
Yes, Gil and KC, you guessed it, it’s a chestnut splitter. (You were very close Judith). This little thing-a-ma-jig comes in handy with chestnuts. I don’t know about you, but I cringe every time I watch someone cutting a cross into the chestnuts, sure that the knife is going to slip and […]
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November 16th, 2007 by Administrator
I have to admit it. I’m a kitchen gadget freak. Anything from little hand-held thing-ma-jigs to heavy-duty electrical appliances may strike my fancy. The only requirement is that they have to be useful. There are plenty of gadgets out there that are a waste of time, just made to take your […]
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November 15th, 2007 by Administrator
When some friends came to visit the other day, they brought us this beautiful plant. In Italian it’s called “La Miseria” which, despite the title of this post, translates more accurately as “extreme poverty”. I’m not quite sure what the symbolism is there. If you have this plant is it supposed to […]
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November 14th, 2007 by Administrator
Well, my parents are leaving Italy today after a 5 week stay. We actually said goodbye yesterday after we drove them to the train station in Vasto where they took the train up to Pescara and then over to Rome. Of course, I had to call them to make sure they made it […]
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