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Other century's stuff
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.. the storys written from my friends who tell of as he was lived in the other century.
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Our adresses
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.. here our friends who you can go to visit.
Many many beatiful pages to see
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Cockery time
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let come to see how do we cook here..
Osteria Gramola's
cooking school
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We go around
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..there are here so many small-unknown places to see and I can bring you there..
Here you are what nice turn
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Farmhouse
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.. here there are these beautiful places in order to pass the
vacations...
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Welcome in Tuscany
("Chi guasta la vigilia di Natale, cuore di lupo e anima di cane.")
To break, to eat meat in the Vigilia's day, it was considered a very bad thing, to lack respect, an heresy.
Here you are a good recipe for this month:
The cavallucci biscuits
When we were close to Christmas the housewife used to prepare the cavallucci (lit. 'little horses') which are just like small cooked pieces of bread with walnuts and candies into it. To made it you needs 200 grams of water, 600 grams of sugar, 900 grams of flour, 300 grams of walnuts and candies, a bit of anise seeds, spices, four spoons of sweet's ammonia, a spoon of vanilla sugar and a slice of orange skin. This is the old housewife's recipe: if you use it a lot of cavallucci will came out. Usually I use half dose.
Put the water with the sugar into a pot to boil. After a while you can add the candies and the chopped walnuts and make it boil again. Then you should add the ammonia and turn off the fire. You should be careful with your eyes, while you add the ammonia, and that it should completely melt into the water. Then you can add slowly big spoons of the flour, so that half of the full quantity should nicely melt without lumps. Of the other half of the flour you should make a small mountain with a hole in the middle where to put the just made cream. Then you can make a soft dough collecting together all the flour and from it you can make some little rounded balls. Put them into the oven at 150° for almost fifteen, twenty minutes. If some balls are left you should cook them within the same day otherwise the dough will become too hard. If the balls are already very hard when you put them into the oven, never mind, however: the hot temperature should soften them and they should cook nicely. When the cavallucci are still hot they are very soft, but after a while, cold, they become hard and you could keep them for year.
If you want to know different ways we cook things here...
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Some suggestions for Christmas time
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In family
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At home
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Going around
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Start to prepare decorations and the gifts, ask help help to your friends.
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Going to visit someone, beyond the Christmas greetiogs it's good to have a little thought... |
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Festivals' Bag
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.. if you are invited you can do as I do: I don't like to go with empty hands. But I am not for flowers or chocolates...
The Chopping Board Basket
If you like the sliced salami and you are curious of try them you can choose this beautiful basket.
EUR 64,80
USD 69,40
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Special stuff
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.. if you want to celebrate birthdays, anniversaries, or something to be forbidden of..
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Palio's Plates
This is the plate of the contradas of the Palio di Siena. The Contradas are seventeen and these plates are all beautiful, but don't say it to the men belonging to the contradas, the contradaioli..
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Special stuff
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.. if you want to celebrate birthdays, anniversaries, or something to be forbidden of..
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The Palio of Siena's Mugs
The 2nd of July has been the Palio in honour of the Madonna of Provenzano, here the mugs to drink a toast to the health of this beautiful festival and to Siena!
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Azienda Agricola
La Selva
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If you like to know a winery where the wine is made as we used in the good old days, then you can come to Montespertoli, from my friend George..
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La Selva's Products
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Best Stuff
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...if you like something good you need..
I cantucci col vinsanto
Here "cantuccio" means little corner and the cantucci are little pieces made of this good almonds paste.
They are dry biscuits, very good to soak in a good vinsanto.
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Azienda Agricola
La Selva
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If you like to taste all the good products of this beautiful company, this is the basket you need..
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