In all honesty, when we first wrote in our adoption booklet ‘and you can come and visit your tree, you can even give it a little hug’ it was half as a joke. The thought that people would traipse hundreds of miles to visit an adopted member of the botanical world seemed fanciful to say [...]
Archive for May, 2009
What the reviews are saying
Posted in Resources, tagged adopt an olive tree, cathy rogers, dolce vita diaries, Jason Gibb, Nudo, reviews on May 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Here are a few of the reviews The Dolce Vita Diaries has been getting in the media. The are all quite positive – lucky us. “Part memoir, part recipe book, even part business plan, ‘The Dolce Vita Diaries’ is seriously engrossing, with a huge personality.” – Zoe Perrett, Foodtripper.com “The book is written in a [...]
Spaghetti with sundried cherry tomatoes
Posted in Jason's Recipes, tagged Jason Gibb, Nudo, recipes, spaghetti, sun dried tomatoes, sundried on May 26, 2009 | 2 Comments »
There are evenings when you feel like spinning pans, manhandling meat, slicing and dicing an allotment full of produce and generally coming over a bit Jackson Pollock in the kitchen. Then there are evenings when you just want to eat something divine without the splatter. If I’m after evening number two I do this recipe [...]
Wild Chicory Spaghetti
Posted in Jason's Recipes, tagged chicory, dolce vita diaries, Easter, Italy, Jason Gibb, Nudo, recipes, spaghetti on May 19, 2009 | 8 Comments »
Our friends from Rome, the Mancinis, came to stay with us on the farm for Easter. Guido Mancini is a great cook and we often swap recipes. When I was showing him and his daughter Maria around the grove Guido got very excited by all the wild chicory growing there. Proving what an accomplished cook he is Guido made one of the most delicious pasta dishes I’ve ever eaten.
Baked Trout with lemon oil and flat-leaf parsley
Posted in Jason's Recipes, tagged cathy rogers, Jason Gibb, Nudo, olive oil, parsley, recipes, trout on May 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I’m so proud of our lemon oil that I risk boring people silly going on about how great it is. But it really is better than any other lemon olive oil. Period. (I learned to say that in America.) We make the oil by crushing whole lemons together with the olives in the press. ‘Yeah, [...]
Nonna Cadi’s Chocolate Salami
Posted in Jason's Recipes, tagged cathy rogers, chocolate, Jason Gibb, Nudo, olive oil, recipes, salami on May 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
In the changing room after football training my friend Marco sneakily pulled out a parcel wrapped in grease-proof paper. I watched him as he surreptitiously popped a chunk of delicious looking chocolately goo into his mouth. Having run around like a head-less chicken for the last hour and a half and not eaten since lunch [...]
Penne with mascarpone, black olives and orange oil
Posted in Jason's Recipes, tagged Nudo, olive oil, olives, oranges, penne, recipes on May 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
We prune our olive trees in the Nudo grove when the winter rains stop, the days start to get longer and just before the sap rises. Between 5 and 10 of us prune for a week or so, if the weather holds that long. If bad weather means that progress is slow we don’t have [...]
