Back in 2005 we decided that we would try to make olive oil soap. We had lots of old olive oil and wanted to find a good use for it. ‘How hard can it be?’ we thought. We bought a few bottles of mysterious unguents with frightening names, dug out our biggest saucepans and got [...]
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Simona Fabrizio’s home made ravioli
Posted in Jason's Recipes, Stories from the Olive Grove, tagged Nudo, cathy rogers, recipe, pasta, ravioli, blog, Simona Fabrizio, guest post, home made, sagraincasa on July 23, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Cake for breakfast
Posted in Stories from the Olive Grove, tagged breakfast, cake for breakfast, cathy rogers, Italy, mandarin cake, mandarins, Nudo on July 13, 2010 | 1 Comment »
It’s too easy to get into a rut of a daily routine, especially with children. By the time you’ve done all the chores – the getting up, the washing, the getting dressed, the (yawn) brushing of teeth, the having of breakfast, the finding of shoes, the last minute doing of homework – and so on [...]
Copy cat copy cat sitting on the doormat
Posted in Stories from the Olive Grove, tagged Nudo, adopt an olive tree, cathy rogers, Italy, copy cats, copyright, infringement, illegal, children, repeat on June 29, 2010 | 3 Comments »
Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. Except in two cases. The first is when little children play that game in which they repeat everything you say in your exact, increasingly impatient, tone of voice. The second is in business, when it is sometimes actually illegal and always ‘just not cricket’. The first case is [...]
Scendavamo in campo…
Posted in Stories from the Olive Grove, tagged Blues, cathy rogers, free shipping, gift set, Italia, Italy, La Repubblica, Nudo, Nudo-Italia.com, offer, soccer, World Cup on June 25, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
As I’ve previously confessed, I am no football expert – but I simply cannot let this week go by without reference to the national tragedy that is – or rather was – Italy’s – or rather – the World Cup holders’ performance in the 2010 World Cup in South Africa. The first people they have [...]
Viva Italia
Posted in Stories from the Olive Grove, tagged cathy rogers, England, football, Italy, Marche, Nudo, soccer, Wolrd Cup on June 4, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Seven days and counting. And even I, very much a part timer when it comes to football fanhood, have had a couple of shivers of anticipation at the festival about to engulf the globe. The 2006 world cup was my first insider insight into how Italy play football. As with many other things – lingerie, [...]
May is the month of the asparagus
Posted in Stories from the Olive Grove, tagged asparagus, cathy rogers, festival, Italy, Madeleine Rogers, Nudo, Passo San Ginesio on May 14, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
A couple of years ago my sister and her boyfriend made a special trip out to visit us in Italy because we offered them an un-turn-downable lifetime-first opportunity: the chance to be one of the delegates at the Asparagus festival in Passo San Ginesio, one of our local villages. My sister is a reasonably obsessive [...]
It’s pruning time
Posted in Stories from the Olive Grove, tagged adopt an olive tree, cathy rogers, cooking, dream, Italy, Nudo, olive tree, perfect day, pruning on May 4, 2010 | 3 Comments »
The alarm goes at 5.45am. Jason gets wonkily out of bed, opens the shutters, wipes his eyes to check that the thick fog is attached to the world outside and not his eyeballs (it is) and dials Antonio’s number. ‘C’e la nebbia, anche piove un po…’ (there’s thick fog and it’s raining bit). No pruning [...]
Tasting Notes from Nudo’s olive groves
Posted in Resources, Stories from the Olive Grove, tagged adopt an olive tree, Dell'Orso, Fiorano, Il Taccolito, Jason Gibb, la morla, le Marche, leccino, Nudo, olive oil, olives, tasting notes on April 27, 2010 | 2 Comments »
For all our adoptive tree parents, this time of year is one of great anticipation, as the due date for the precious new arrival approaches. Any day now, a stork will arrive carrying your bespoke bonnie bundle – a package of divine extra virgin olive oil from your very own Italian olive tree. There are a few [...]
Ardelio and Lina
Posted in Stories from the Olive Grove, tagged adopt an olive tree, Ardelio, bread, cathy rogers, cheese, cutting grass, Italy, Lina, Nudo, pruning, salami, sheep on April 13, 2010 | 3 Comments »
When we first bought our olive grove, we didn’t even know anyone who owned a tractor. Not a tenable long term position. When you’re talking about more than 20 acres of land, mostly on vertiginous slopes, even simple jobs such as cutting the grass become major ventures. So we started putting word about that we [...]
Come on out, we know you’re in there
Posted in Stories from the Olive Grove, tagged Casal dei Fichi, Caserma Carina, cathy rogers, holiday, le Marche, Nudo, planning, Spring, sun, Wales on April 7, 2010 | 3 Comments »
Every year I make the same mistake. Thinking that winter comprises December, January and February, and that Spring (blue skies, no coats) rocks up good and proper in March. So wrong. Winter can trudge, fudge and muddle on for anything up to 5 months. Get your pacing right. This is a marathon not a sprint. [...]
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