Palazzo Papaleo 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.

... good works guys..and "buon appetito".

Ingredients:
Potat oes, cherrish tomatoes, black olives from Salento, capers, anchovies in oil, onion,rosmary, origan, thyme, eggs, breadcrumbs, milk, sheep's milk cheese, salt, pepper, extra-vergin olive oil, red wine (Primitivo or Negroamaro).

... 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 ...

... en blijven net als onze twee collega zeilers net voor de opening van de haven op het anker liggen. Hoewel onze Duitse zeilvriend ons verzekert dat de wind gaat draaien en dan ook de swell niet meer de haven binnenloopt, blijven we de hele nacht rollen, waardoor we nauwelijks een oog dicht doen. Gelukkig moeten we vroeg op voor de laatste oversteek naar Griekenland.

(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

... bad weather and public holidays halting public transport I didn't get to explore it...however, meeting up with some new couchsurfers, Mimma and Danilo definitely made up for it - dinners, party's, eating yummy yummy Puglian sweets (pasticciotto - pastry pies filled with custuard, fruttone, dried figs stuffed with caramelised almonds etc etc), going to a discotec/restaurant which we wondered if it was ...