This morning I did receive an interesting email,
I assume this couple is currently vacationing in Italy:
Subject: breakfast???
Message: I need some tuscan lovin breakfast.  my husband and I have been eating pasta for like 2 weeks now!!!!  don't people in Italy eat breakfast food??!!!  I want to see some  and eat some, and cook some too  thanks, you guys are AMAZING!!!  and I love when you two bicker!!!

First of all, thanks for the compliments, always appreciated.

Second...
AHAHAHAHAH,
you are very funny!!!!!

Here is the thing,

From birth to 13 years old your breakfast is milk...from 4/5 you can have Nesquick in it.
When you turn 14 years old, since you start high-school...well, you are allowed to start with coffee....
Eventually in high school you will start smoking. Read More...

Tags: coffee and cigarettes

We just could not resist.
Aunt Laura has learned all of Lola's tricks (Gabriele's Grandma), and has a great sensibility when it comes to cooking.
She does not measure her ingredients (unless she is baking a cake), and like an alchemist is able to pull off the best lunches,
with the same ease she cooks for 6 or 20 people...she's a natural.

So, here you go, lunch is served.
Today in the menu: Veal Rolls with Ham and Emmenthal cheese and a traditional Caponata (Vegetable Stew).

Buon Appetito
Debi & Gabriele

Tags: veal, caponata, vegetables, family

Let us introduce you to a very special dish: Pappa al Pomodoro (Tomatoes and Stale Bread Soup)

Florentine farmers used to cook this soup using stale bread that was saved during the week, garlic, tomatoes and basil from their gardens: this is the most humble dish I know,
well, after boiled white rice...
Now, if you go to a restaurant, the tradition is slowly disappearing, and it is becoming very hard to find a good old recipe that works; that's why Deb and I decided to feature in this first episode two very dear friends of ours, Rosanna and Matteo. The good recipes are still secretly hidden into very old Tuscan homes, like The Farm Pacina, in Castelnuovo Berardenga, a little town that rests on the hills between the Chianti Area and Siena.

Pacina was originally an Etruscan site, then it became a convent in the nine hundreds and after eight centuries the property was sold by the church and became private. Today Pacina is an Agriturismo and a Yoga retreat, Olive Oil and Wine are produced and distributed in Tuscany...a place worth a long weekend!

Tags: pappa al pomodoro, bread, olive oil, garlic, basil, tomatoes, siena