Cousin's Palazzo
We had a welcome break of five days at Katherine's cousin's summer home in the Marche region of Italy. Our very first night we were hosted by an Italian family who also have a family home in this little village of San Pietro Castel. A bit of English, a bit of Italian, two dictionaries and an 11year old who was studying english at school (plus a lot of sign language) meant we could amost understand each other. Well, a little.
The food was amazing.
antipasto, lasagna with tomato, lasagna with pesto. veal stuffed with ham and mushroom, vegetable ragu, potatoe with rosemary. Fruit course. Dessert (cake and ice cream... it was Nono's 81st birthday). coffee and two kinds of liquour......none of these courses were optional.
The two kids showed up the next day to bake with cousin Liz, there was way more eating of batter then baking. Seriously these kids were eating already formed, uncooked cookies from the tray!
5 min in, Liz was called away to the phone, which left us trying to bake using an unfamiliar recipe that called for pounds of flour and a scale that measured grams, trying to direct kids by charades, while stopping them from eating all of the batter before getting it in the oven.
Here is a picture, just before the phone rang.
The food was amazing.
antipasto, lasagna with tomato, lasagna with pesto. veal stuffed with ham and mushroom, vegetable ragu, potatoe with rosemary. Fruit course. Dessert (cake and ice cream... it was Nono's 81st birthday). coffee and two kinds of liquour......none of these courses were optional.
The two kids showed up the next day to bake with cousin Liz, there was way more eating of batter then baking. Seriously these kids were eating already formed, uncooked cookies from the tray!
5 min in, Liz was called away to the phone, which left us trying to bake using an unfamiliar recipe that called for pounds of flour and a scale that measured grams, trying to direct kids by charades, while stopping them from eating all of the batter before getting it in the oven.
Here is a picture, just before the phone rang.
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