“We did some research and spoke to some folk. It seems a normal electricity supply would be about 3kW. In fact, the legal minimum is 3kW. Our electrician came out. He seemed suspiciously young. Like fourteen. Is that legal here? Anyway, he looked at boxes and stated rather enigmatically that our supply ‘should’ be just [...]
Archive for August, 2009
Spaghetti Carbonara has never tasted this good
Posted in Jason's Recipes, tagged carbonara, dolce vita diaries, Italy, Jason Gibb, pancetta, recipes, spaghetti on August 21, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Obviously the Italians are pasta fanatics. Many hours can be pleasantly spent arguing over the minutiae of a pasta’s quality. But there are some universal truths. First off, if your pasta has a golden hue it means it contains farm-fresh eggs. Secondly, if pasta is slow dried in air – the process takes a few [...]
Scrambled eggs and black truffle shavings
Posted in Jason's Recipes, tagged black truffles, dolce vita diaries, Italy, Jason Gibb, loro piceno, recipes, scrambled, truffles on August 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
With ordering from Italian menus you really can play it fast and loose – antipasto and secondo, or secondo and salad or just antipasto antipasto antipasto – like we had at Taverna Loro in Loro Piceno last week. A seemly never-ending plethora of delights is just what you need after a day at the beach, [...]
Sundried Tomato Caprese
Posted in Jason's Recipes, tagged adopt, adopt an olive tree, basil, Caprese, dolce vita diaries, Jason Gibb, Nudo, recipes, sun-dried, sundried, sundried tomatoes on August 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
It’s hard to find really tasty tomatoes outside of Italy. This is because most of them are grown in hothouses. Nadia, who makes our sundried tomatoes, puts it a bit more romantically ‘What could a greenhouse-grown tomato possibly reveal to us when it has never felt the warmth of the sun, or the gentle breeze [...]
