Entries Tagged as 'Puglia'

Marzipan Fruit and Ischitella, Puglia

December 11th, 2007 · 13 Comments

New here? Check out “Best Of” for some top posts, subscribe to my RSS feed - http://feeds.feedburner.com/MsAdventuresinItaly or receive email updates!Since we’re going to India over the Christmas break, we decided to go visit S’ family since we have spent the past 3 years with them. This time we made a special trip deep [...]

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Tags: Culture · Discovering Food · Discovering Italy · Food · Italy · Puglia

Inside a Pugliese Forno (Breadmaker), part 2: Into the Oven!

November 13th, 2007 · 9 Comments

Be sure to read: Part 1 of Inside a Pugliese Forno (Breadmaker)
In part one, we looked at preparing the dough for the rising and baking. Now our oven is ready for the all the dough we prepared.
I love this picture - it could be the inside of Any Forno, Italy. The baskets of dough [...]

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Tags: Behind the Scenes · Food · Italy · Puglia

Inside a Pugliese Forno (Breadmaker)

November 11th, 2007 · 14 Comments

Be sure to read Part 2: Inside a Pugliese Forno (Breadmaker): Into the Oven!
“Oooo, I’d like to go in there.”
When my friends and family here hear this, they know that I am immediately making plans to infiltrate whatever I’m talking about. What I really mean is, I want to approach complete strangers, follow them around [...]

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Finding Italy’s Hidden Beaches in Puglia’s Gargano

September 19th, 2007 · 5 Comments

The beaches on the coasts of Italy are completely different from region to region, and even from kilometer to kilometer, but most don’t fit the ideal of a beach that I grew up with - miles of wide, open beach and fine sand confronting a turbulent ocean. I have divided most of my life between [...]

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Festival of the Mozzarella Nodino - Knot and Bruschetta

September 17th, 2007 · 15 Comments

When I saw that my visit in Puglia coincided with the Sagra della Bruschetta e Nodino - Festival of the Bruschetta and (mozzarella) Knot, I was ecstatic. I consider these little “knots” to be one of my top ten favorite foods in Italy. Something that must be sampled and savoured here, because the freshness and [...]

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Spaghetti allo Scoglio - Frutti di Mare - Fresh Seafood Pasta

September 7th, 2007 · 10 Comments

Still talking about being in the Puglia - Apulia region (see previous Puglia articles), there’s a dish that many may not have heard of but are quite familiar with - Spaghetti allo Scoglio (literally: rock/reef) but often known as Spaghetti ai frutti di mare - “fruits of the sea.”
This is usually one of the more [...]

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Fichi d’India - Prickly Pear Cactus Fruit Vinaigrette

September 3rd, 2007 · 6 Comments

In the valley below my in-laws’ house in Manfredonia, there is a sea of prickly pear cactus, and this time of year they are overburdened with multicolored fruit. They tell me at one time, the whole area was covered with them. In the mornings, I often saw older men walking through the cactus valley, picking [...]

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Trani, Puglia and Tiramisu Iced Coffee

August 31st, 2007 · 8 Comments

I was meeting up with some friends from the UK who were in Puglia for a holiday, staying in Bari, and Trani was a wonderful compromise! We decided to mix in a little sightseeing with our sunbathing, though in hindsight, we should have done the sightseeing first as we were quite hot afterwards.
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Tags: Dessert · Discovering Italy · Food · Italy · Puglia · Recipe