Grand Hotel Daniela Otranto

Goodmorning my friends..hope you had a nice long week-end hanging around, buying Christmas gifts..


Here it is my Homemade Olive Oil-Flavored Bread (Puccia con le olive - it is a genuine cooking tradition in Lecce area and Puglia territory!) Do you wanna try to bake it ...

... few minutes later, after having chopped up quinces..(many thanks to my solicitous relatives, who yearly give me baskets of golden quinces as present from their own gorgeous, huge garden) I put a big saucepan on to cook for making my candied quince...mmm...yummah... feel the sweet smell ... quince flavour was everywhere in the air, in my kitchen,... around the Christmas Tree..among the branches ...

... is most frequently prepared on Sunday before Easter.

I'm going to show you two different versions to make Sagne 'Ncannulate. I learnt the first tecnique when I was only a little child watching at my beloved zia Lucia. Recently I learnt the second version from Alessandro's grannie, she is an adorable old lady, aged 86! Many thanks to both of them

... container up to the safety valve

- Fill of coffee powder the filter shaping a smooth hill

- Screw the upper coffee container and the lower water container together.

- Leave on the cooker just until coffee comes out filling the upper container and then..your Italian Homemade Black Coffee Espresso is served.

This Potatoes Pitta is a supreme culinary work of art, very typical and representative of my land, Salento - Puglia. I heartly dedicate this meal to all my friends, especially to those who are in London, UK and last Summer joined my lunch or dinner for helping to make this mouthwatering ...

... Legume recipes mirror our old culinary tradition and way of living in Apulia, Southern Italy, a slow-living as authentic value: indeed they were most frequently used in the past by peasant people who cooked them into a clay pot "pignata".

In my opinion Grass-Pea "Cicerchia" is a very good alternative (though it is nowadays considered "old fashioned") to common legume dishes (lentils, peas, beans, chickpeas ...

... dan vast bij een boot met een Duitse vlag die ook al in Roccella Ionia heeft gelegen. Hij gaat de zelfde weg als wij en besluiten de volgende dag om 4.30 uur te vertrekken om de Golf di Taranto (van zool naar hak) over te steken en St.Maria de Leuca als uitvalbasis naar Griekenland te gebruiken.





Uiteindelijk zullen we met drie boten ...

(Note : All entries from now until Perth in November are way
shorter than they should be, as all out text got stolen, together with
our laptop, all our valuables, and almost our whole campervan, when it
was broken into and trashed in Rome at the end of October. Have a look
at that entry if you want to have a look at the damage the *******s
did. The next month or so´s text is written 6 months later, so we may
have forgotten some bits!)
Lecce, Puglia, Italy roamingmonk

Sailing, sailing, on the deep blue sea, when days are hot when days are cold I'll sail the ocean blue... It's nice to finally have a sea day to relax and reinvigorate myself for the days upcoming. The Mediterranean is the perfect place to have a sea day too, warm weather and sunny skies and predominantly smooth seas, what's not to love! Of course who am I kidding, crew work the ********** a sea day to ensure that the guests can relax and enjoy themselves.

... figures and vegetables, and has a large rose window. Next to the church if the Government Palace, a former convent. The Duomo (cathedral) is also one of the most important in Italy. It was originally built in 1144, and again in 1230. It was however totally restored in the years 1659-70 by Giuseppe Zimbalo, also designer of the 70 m-high bell tower.  The Roman Amphitheatre, built in the 2nd ...