The August Harvest in a Tuscan Garden: A Burst of Colors and Flavors August is a special month for our gardens: it’s the time when nature, kissed by the summer sun, offers its most generous and flavorful fruits. The August harvest is a celebration of the land and the hard work done in the previous […]
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CABERNET FRANC & DUCK A L’ORANGE
Duck à l’orange, an iconic and opulent classic that conjures that collective image of a princely meal served on silver platters in the center of long banquet tables. But this dish “il paparo alla melarancia” actually appears in Florentine recipes books in the 1400s and was exported over the Alps by Catherine de Medici when […]
The ultimate Hunter’s chicken casserole recipe
Hunter’s chicken in italian is “Pollo alla Cacciatora”. Cacciatora refers to a specific flavour rendered by the combination of the garlic and rosemary we use in the preparation of this dish: the same herbs that hunters would use to flavour the food they caught while out hunting. WHAT WE NEED 1 kg chicken portions, cut […]
OIL BREAD
A soup or a salad will certainly not be meal enough: some pane all’olio, perhaps with a bit of finocchiona fennel seed salame and a chunk of good, aged pecorino, will complete your light lunch. WHAT WE NEED: 500 g OF WHITE FLOUR 100 g OF VIGNAMAGGIO’S PRIME GOCCE OLIVE OIL 10 g NATURAL YEAST […]