Diamond Jubilee for Queen Elizabeth Photos

  

  

  

Apulia Puglia, Italy meets the B&B cast for June 2012 wedding Part 3

Puglia or Apulia (in English) is the heel of the Italian boot. Check it out below. 

Map from the site below:

From e-rcps.com  Lots of recipes here!!  Links for these recipes is on front page of this site.

 

 

•  Pasta Fagioli
• Orecchiette alla Barese
•  Braciolini
•  Parmigiana di melanzane

Good read below about Puglia, food and more!!

From Travellady.com

WINES FROM PUGLIA OR APULIA

  

LIST OF WINERIES AT:
Guide to wine tasting
http://bythetun.blogspot.com/2010/05/guide-to-wine-tasting-in-puglia-part.html

Apulia Puglia, Italy meets the B&B cast for June 2012 wedding Part 2

The B&B soap is off and running at Puglia, Italy.  

(pronounced Pooh-lee-yah)

The wedding party is staying at Masseria San Domenico.  See photo above. 

Since this is a soap opera I thought maybe the hotel was fictional but it isn't!!

If you like ancient buildings and beautiful water views then Puglia is for you!!

  

  

 

Let's talk about popular food and drink in Puglia.

BREADS - Most popular - focaccia

Food & Wine magazine (one of my favs) has a nice article about dining in Puglia.  Here is the link:

http://www.foodandwine.com/articles/puglia-italys-next-great-escape

From the article: 

 Get the boutique olive oils, wines and pickles, fruit gelati and dark, slushy coffee granita. 

We sampled fig, lemon and the astounding caffè-nocciola gelato, peppers and figs, smoked mozzarella with tiny clover bouquets, topped herb pasta with a luxurious saffron sauce and doused fried lampascioni (wild hyacinth bulbs) with orange-blossom honey.

Delallo talks about Puglia

http://www.delallo.com/articles/puglia

This website and author has provided some "awesome" food photos!!

http://mymelange.net/mymelange/2012/06/food-specialties-puglia-italy.html

MORE to come!

Bounty Day at Norfolk Island in the Pacific 6 8 2012

Bounty Day at Norfolk Island - see what Wiki has to day:

     

Wiki on Norfolk Island - Today is bounty day for Norfolk Island

FOODS and DRINKS FROM JASONS.COM

• Fresh seafood, vegetables, fruits, meats, salad greens 
• Austrailian and New Zealand wines
• Pilihai (baked ripe banana)
• Mudda (boiled green banana)
• sweet island dessert pies
• Local coffee roasts
• wood fired pizza
• Italian cuisine
• meats and vegetables cooked in underground "hangi-style"
• 3 locally brewed beers
• Liqueurs
• Wines

Want to take kids to Norfolk Island?  Click on this link from Holidays with kids.

http://www.holidayswithkids.com.au/where_togo/where_to_go/australia/norfolk_island

National Cheese Day 6 5 2012

I don't know about you but I love cheese.  Did you know there could be as many as 900 or more?   The French have 400 of their own!!

 

  

  

  

  

  

  

   

See if you can guess some of them!!

Pictured above are manchego, gouda, edam, polish highlander, Swiss, Italian bocconcini, stilton, goat cheese, feta, cottage, gorgonzola, taleggio, parmesan, goats milk cheese