Bon Appetit!
Still do not know what we are referring to?
Well, if you read the “feedback” page in the latest issue of Bon Appetit Magazine you will quickly understand what’s happening in our life and where we’re going with The Tuscan Gun!
We would like to thank all of our followers scrambled over the web, the Bloggers, the Twitters, the Facebook addicts, the Fans and the Foodies from all over the world that have been keeping this project alive (and very much healthy) by cross-posting, syndicating and “Stumbling Upon” our recipes and videos.
Thank you again
everybody, we will be online again this coming week
for a new episode...Deb was in NY shooting “Law and
Order SVU”, that’s the reason for the delay in
posting (we will post the air date as soon as it
becomes available).
The Florentine
This summer, if you
intend to visit Tuscany and florence, be sure to look
for this free magazine, or check their website, you
will find tips and calendar events that will help you
navigate the city with ease.
This month Debi and I are featured on The Florentine
pages...just a few questions about how we met, and
what’s going on with our lives.
Testing the Aero Garden
it turned out to be an interesting project and a very long testing experiment (about 11 weeks)...for the whole family.
The Aerogarden has been see on TV and in various specialized stores around the country, and I am sure that many of you had for a moment the thought: "Mmmmhhh, interesting. Shall I give it a try?".
"No, you should not!", this is our opinion.
Technology in the house and in our everyday life, we all have to admit, brings these days peace of mind and some convenience. There are many utensils, tools and gadgets that we would not live without, especially when it comes to the Kitchen. This one, well, yes...we can live without this one.
Do not get fooled by what
you're shown on the tube at night...what you see in
the advertised pictures is absolutely impossible to
achieve.
Look at the pictures below, can you try guessing
which one is mine and which one is the advertised
one?
We also would like to
reassure you...
yes, more food episodes are
coming. Evelina (our oldest daughter) has been
enjoying her Spring Break, and we've had our hands
full around here, for the past two weeks.
Next episode then, for sure, will be a recipe!
For the moment, we hope you enjoy this little clip.
Debi and Gabriele
We Are Back!!!
we are back in Los Angeles.
Our trip has been a once in a lifetime experience:
Deb, Me and the Girls finally took possession and lived in the house that my grand father promised me over thirty years ago.
I gave my family a Tuscan Home, surrounded by Olive and Cypress trees, we had breakfast staring at Deers and Boars (yes damn it, boars!)
roaming in our garden, our fireplace worked twenty four seven for over two weeks, and we had a well deserved meat and wine Holiday.
We came back to an
overwhelming response to our People
Magazine piece...
The website have been slowing down a bit for this
reason, things are happening faster than we expected
and we are already working
on a new version of the site, optimized for this
amount of traffic, and also a mobile mini-blog, so
you can carry us everywhere...how lucky are you.
We have over seven hours of footage that we will
start editing for some new upcoming episodes to be
posted starting in a bit more than a week.
Welcome Back to Under The Tuscan Gun!!!
Gabriele and Debi
The Tuscan Gun on People Magazine
The Tuscan Gun is coming
to life.
Debi and I hosted a lunch this past Sunday in our
home in Los Angeles. A few celebrity guess attended,
a lot of food was cooked and eaten, a lot of Chianti
bottles were opened and finished. It was truly a
happy celebration.
The piece will come out the 2nd or 3rd week on
January, and one of my best kept secret recipes will
be revealed: Pappa al Pomodoro. This Tuscan Peasant
Soup made of stale bread and tomatoes is one of those
dishes that look very easy on paper, but then you go
to the restaurant and you are always served something
different; usually it comes to you in form of tomato
soup with a slice of bread...with some garlic, if
you're lucky...how sad!
This is why, as soon as the article will come out,
Debi and I will cook this dish and post it as the
first episode of our second season.
Oh yes, we're done for
the moment. Deb is shooting this week, and in a few
days we will leave for Italy, where we finally enjoy
a few weeks of family life in the country. And again,
food and wine, lots of both.
We are already working on a shoot list for our trip,
as we want to acquire as much footage as we can, to
be featured next season on the show.
Thank you all for your incredible support! This
project started almost as a joke less then four
months ago, and the feedback is somewhat humbling.
Remember, it is not about being a chef, or thinking
that being a cook is less then being a chef...it is
about feeding!
So, these coming
holidays, feed your loved ones, fill them up, serve
good wine, make them smile. And come back to visit us
next year, we'll give you more of all of this!!!
Ciao,
Buon Natale and Buon Appetito
Gabriele and Deborah
The Tuscan Gun on Epicurious.com is finally online!
The videos are finally online, you can stream them directly from this post, or visit Epicurious to watch them, and maybe browse around for some Holiday recipes.
More
Clips from
Favorite
Kitchen Equipment
Tablesetting Tips
Making Tuscan Beef Stew
The four clips in this post are mainly
focused on our kitchen and our approach to cooking;
the last clip is a 4 minutes edit on my Beef Stew
episode...in case the edit is too short for you to
get a grip of it, go visit our post for the recipe.
Ciao
Since Today I Feel Like Sharing. SHIFT HAPPENS!
iTunes is back...hopefully!
Usually it takes about 24 hours to refresh the Podcast Directories, and even longer for larger directories like Google...
I guess, only time will tell. I will stay on top of it and keep my fingers crossed.
Thank You for your patience.
Ciao
Ga'
Important Notice for our iTunes Subscribers!!!
We are (uff, I am...)
performing a major clean up, and reorganizing all our
files...
In a few ours everything should be back to normal.
If by any chance, a very possible chance, our feed is
lost forever we will provide you with a new link
asap.
Sorry about that.
In the meantime though, all our episodes are still
regularly streaming.
Gabriele
Ten Food Blogs.
A quick post to share the links of the top ten finalist for the " Best Food Blog - Weblog Awards 2007".
Cooking For
Engineers
Men In Aprons
Coconut
and Lime
Mom's Best
Recipes
Off The Broiler
The
Expatriate's Kitchen
Epicurious
Pinch My Salt
101 Cookbooks
Serious Eats
And the winner is...
Have fun,
ciao.
Gabriele
Will It Blend?
as promised during our fourth episode, here is the link to the most fun and efficient blender available...at least, as far as my likings!!!
The Total
Blender from Blendtec is here featured
disintegrating anything available.
Obviously the goal is to demonstrate its efficiency,
I guess the point is:
If this blender does not have problems polverizing a
pound of golf balls, a broom stick, or even an
iPhone, well, it should not give you any sort of
trouble when you will attempt to make your Pesto
Sauce.