Masseria Montelauro 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 ...

What a special Sunday morning...woke up and...my hubby made me a great surprise... A big Christmas Tree was twinkling in our living room and a couple of Christmas stockings hanging up by the fireplace waiting for Father Christmas Coming!.. worth a picture...yeah...Really couldn't resist the temptation to share this magic image with my friends too... because at Christmastime we love to feel like ...

... 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 ...

Fly to Salento - Mediterranean Diet - Healthy Food and Slow-Living in Apulia, Italy - Authentic Value

Legumes are well known for their precious healthy properties: they represent one of the main ingredients to characterize the Mediterranean Diet, a lifestyle, such an extraordinary natural tool to prevent cancer, heart diseas, etc. Strongly advised for children, legumes are an excellent source of vegetable ...

... wind neemt af en zal dat blijven doen, bijna alle 12 uren. We vermaken ons met lezen: Lineke het boek van Artemisia, van Alexandra Lapierrre over de vrouwelijke schilder van de 17 de eeuw, toen schilderijen nog een betaalmiddel waren en ik ”De eenzaamheid van de priemgetallen’, van Paolo Giordano, of te wel de dagelijkse ramp van het bestaan, maar ...

(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.

... and situated near Sant'Oronzo Square, deserves to be mentioned as well. In its time, the amphitheatre was able to host more than 25,000 people. It is now half-buried because other important monuments were built above it over the centuries. The column that holds the statue of Saint Oronzo (Lecce's patron) was given to Lecce by the city of Brindisi, it was given as a gift because Saint Oronzo cured ...