Holidays in Italy: off the beaten track

Tastefull spaghetti with red wine sauce

2007-12-05T09:35:00.000Z

My favourite argument is food and all what is concerning the hearth fruits.

Food and hearth are our life and cooking is a daily contact with it.

Today I will cook for me and my husband a very simple recipe , do not worry, when we use good quality of food each recipe comes well . May be it sound strange for your culinary habits use such ingredients , be sure that cooking is easier as it looks sometime, put yourself on it.

Provide with these ingredients: tomato sauce, anchovies paste, olive oil extra virgin, black olives, red wine of good quality: Chianti or Morellino or Barbera.

Put in a large saucepan warm the olive oil, the tomato sauce, the black olives and the anchovies paste and simmer this sauce.

In the meantime fill up a pot with half water and half wine, bring it to boil, salt it and when it is boiling and pour the spaghetti and cook them “ al dente”, half cooking.

Then pour the spaghetti in the saucepan and add another glas of red wine, fill up well the spaghetti and the sauce and finish their cooking.

Serve them on a warm plate accompanied with the same red wine used for the recepit

Try and let me know your comments.

This recipe is used in many regions of Italy,I mentioned 3 kind of wine, but any red and bodly wine will be match for this dish.

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Vino Cotto Le Marche

2007-12-03T10:51:00.000Z

Vino Cotto ( cooked wine) is a ancient tradition how to work the wine , coming from the people called Piceni ( 10th century a.c.) and still alive in Le Marche, in the Province of Ascoli Piceno and recognized by the Ministery as an Italian traditional food belonging to the Regions Le Marche and Abruzzo .

The kind grapes used are Montepulciano, Sangiovese and Galloppa.
Once pressed the grapes , the most obtained will be boiled in a a branch large copper and let it cooked with a high fire until the third part of the liquid is evaporated.
Then the concentrate must will be tucked in oak barrels where is already present the older wine.
Its slow and long aging will avoid oxidations.

Characteristics:
color in between carnet red and rubin red
Parfum : fruits
Flavour: sweet
Alcoholic degree: 14%

Dessert wine as Marsala or Vino Passito.

Every year in September are organized Festivals dedicated to Vino Cotto in the Province of Ascoli Piceno and Macerata and surely if you choose to enjoy your holiday I warmly suggest magnificients Famhouses where tradition-confort-quality is guaranteed.

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Tube Magnato Pico White Truffle 3,300 punds sold to China

2007-12-02T10:34:00.000Z

Yesterday the biggest white Truffle found in the Pisa's Hills, has been sold by auction and bought by a magnate from Macao Cina for an amount of 330.ooo Dollars.

Finally this history come to the end , a good end as the proceed of this sale will be given to charities : in Italy to Telethon, in China to the Caritas and in United Kindom to the Street Children Consortium.

The Auction was connected by satellite from Florence at the Palazzo Medici Ricciardi
one of the most important reanaissane and baroque monument.

The largest White Truffle in the world was found in Italy on the 1954 , is weigt was
2,5 kg, and it was donated to the President of United States Mr. Eisenhower.

http://www.winecountry.it/regions/tuscany/

http://www.palazzo-medici.it/index.php

The biggest white Truffle 2007 Pisa-Tuscany

2007-11-25T21:12:00.000Z

www.tartufi.it/eng/index.htm

The famoust white Truffle in this century.
A most valuable white truffle ( Tuber Magntum Pico) has been found on Pisa’s Hills, in Palaia, near San Miniato and Volterra, with a weight of 1,5kg.
The founders will donate it to The International Auction of Truffle of Tuscany.Through an event organized on the 1st december via satellite and connected from the Palazzo Medici Riccardi in Florence and in London with restaurant Refettorio di San Giorgio Locatelli and with China with Macao and Lisbona with Ristorante Don Alfonso 1890 di Alfonso Iaccarino.
The proceed of the Auction will go in beneficence , in Italy, to Telethon.

Last Minute Offers for Accommodations Tuscany

2007-07-01T12:45:00.000+01:00

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mercoledì 18 luglio 2007

Maremma through the wineries of important names as Petra by Mario Botta, Rocca Frassinello by Renzo Piano, Antonori by Gae Aulenti

Yes, Maremma is now a fantastic occasion for a wineries tours where the most important Italian Architects have given their artistic knowledge for building very modern cellars. These gems of enological architecture will enrich the Maremma area offering a true open-air art gallery with the work by Renzo Piano at Rocca Frassinello in Gavorrano, together with the Cantina Petra by Mario Botta in Suvereto, and the Biserno Estate in Bibbona, of Ludovico Antinori, designed by Gae Aulenti.

I really hope that everyone will consider this occasion to match the Etruscan ruins, the coast, wine and Art Gallery.

One suggestion if you wish relax and privacy, this oasis in the countryside , belonging to a friend of mine, Lea, painter and sculptor.

Sincerely,

yours Loli

Accommodation in Maremma

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Pubblicato da Loli de Concini a 11.04

domenica 20 maggio 2007

Free wine Tasting in Umbria 26-27 May

Hallo and welcome again to my blog. I am trying to learn properly this fantastic way to be in contact immediately to the whole great world.

For who does not the following week-end , 26-27 May, there is on in our Italian Peninsula, the day dedicated to the nectar of Bacchus, called WINE.

All cellars, from the smlallest to the biggest ones, are open to welcome visitors and to offer free of charge a tasting of its wine production.

I would like to remember Umbria Region where few kind of wine are very well known in all over the world.

We are talking about red and white Wine.

The Docg production is concentrated in the Perugia Province with localities of Montefalco and Torgiano , name used for Montefalco Red and White, Montefalco Passito ( dessert wine) and Red Torgiano Riserva.

Any farmhouse will provide to organize an interesting and pleasant week-end with local festival in any corner of this region.

I remind you that wine tasting is a ceremony, drink slowly with the indicated food and good company, wine tasting has nothing to do with drink too much.

Yours Loli

Farmhouse Accommodation in Umbria

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Pubblicato da Loli de Concini a 1.04

Pier della Francesca

Pier della Francesca, from 21 March to the 22 July a 2007 extension of great fascination dedicated to this “ rinascimentale “ painter of Sansepolcro di Monterchi - Arezzo with more than 100 works between which: (The legend of the True Cross and Maddalena, (Resurrezione and Polittico of the Misericordia and the Madonna del Parto) and in adding works of the contemporary artists like Pisanello and Perugino. Great occasion in order to enjoy this Tuscan painter and his works in an historical time , in one part of Tuscany , may be still to discover it. The exibition is organized at the National Museum of Medieval and Modern Art In Arezzo. . Call center: 0039 0575 1840000Time Call Center : from Monday to Friday at 9.00 - 17.00; saturady 9.00 - 13.00 Exibition Time all day in the week from 9.00 to 19.00http://www.mostrapierodellafrancesca.it/terredipiero@provincia.arezzo.it

Madonna del Parto Pier della Francesca

sabato 5 maggio 2007

Pier della Francesca Exibition Arezzo

Hallo and good week end, this 5th May week end.

I suppose you are searching places where to enjoy your holiday. May be your are coming to Italy and perhpas to TUSCANY.
Well, if you like art, you have to know that in Arezzo there is on an exibition of Piero della Francesca from 21 March to the 22 July a 2007 , fascinating extension dedicated to this “ rinascimentale “ painter of Sansepolcro di Monterchi - Arezzo with more than 100 works between which: (The legend of the True Cross and Maddalena, (Resurrezione and Polittico of the Misericordia and the Madonna del Parto) and in adding works of the contemporary artists like Pisanello and Perugino. Great occasion to enjoy this Tuscan painter and his works in an historical time , in one part of Tuscany , may be still to discover for you.
The exibition is organized at the National Museum of Medieval and Modern Art In Arezzo.
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Call center: 0039 0575 1840000Time Call Center : from Monday to Friday at 9.00 - 17.00; saturady 9.00 - 13.00
Exibition Time all day in the week from 9.00 to 19.00
www.mostrapierodellafrancesca.it terredipiero@provincia.arezzo.it

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From 21 March to the 22 July a 2007 extension of great fascination dedicated to this “ rinascimentale “ painter of Sansepolcro di Monterchi - Arezzo with more than 100 works between which: (The legend of the True Cross and Maddalena, (Resurrezione and Polittico of the Misericordia and the Madonna del Parto) and in adding works of the contemporary artists like Pisanello and Perugino. Great occasion in order to enjoy this Tuscan painter and his works in an historical time , in one part of Tuscany , may be still to discover it.

The exibition is organized at the National Museum of Medieval and Modern Art In Arezzo.

Hallo from Loli de' Concini

2007-05-05T16:07:00.000+01:00

Hallo to everybody and good Sunday.
I am very happy to use this blog for informing all the people about unknown tradition events on in Italy.
Today I would like to let you know something curious happening in Ancona Le Marche, in the beautiful square Piazza del Plebiscito on the 3rd May at 10 a.m.. 150 bed breakfast will offer to all vistors a free breakfast. The event is called " Colazione da noi":

The pubblic square will be adroned with table, embroidewred table clothes and fine chinas,flowers decorations.

It is worthy to visit if you are in that area at the beginning of may.
Loli
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2007-05-05T15:33:00.000+01:00

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Farm holidays, villas, farmhouses and apartments in Italy

Here you will find my selection of some of the best holiday properties Italy has to offer in the regions of Tuscany, The Marches, Liguria, Umbria, Puglia and Sicily. I personally know the owners of the properties and have visited every one of these wonderful villas, farmhouses and farm holidays, each of one is selected with you in mind so that you can experience our Italian traditions on relaxing holidays at the right price. - Loli de' Concini

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