Florence cooking class: gnocchi with pesto recipe

Ingredients for gnocchi: 6 potatoes, 10 spoons of flour

6 potatoes to cook with steam not in the water, then when they are ok, take out the skin,  and smash with the masher

and let them to get cold

after about one hour you blend with a little flour; more flour harder gnocchi, less flour softer gnocchi...

 make a roll as big as a finger

and then cut in pieces put a little of flour and after finish all the gnocchi put in the boiled water they are ready in a couple of minutes when they come up from the bottom of the pot

 Pesto

Basil , pinoli and  extra virgin olive oil

You put everything all together  you crush until you get a soft sauce, 

in addition you can add a little garlic and parmigiano cheese, but I like just pure so it is more basil taste

Combination with wine:  Chardonnay, Chianti Colli Fiorentini o Chianti Classico around 2 or 3 years old

Buon Appetito!

Chianti in the winter

Tuscany: tuscan winter wine tour 



Chianti region in winter 

is no less beautiful than the other months of the year,

 and it is also fun to go to vineyards and wineries;

here are some photos taken this February.

I hope you like them.

Chianti hills and snow on the Apennines

medieval hamlet near Greve

medieval hamlet near Radda

twisted vines

winery

Sunset through a circle of clay

Chianti Classico wine Collection 2011

The  Leopolda station, was the first railway built in Florence in 1848 

and now it is used as a venue for meetings, conferences and events

right year every year in February we celebrate the launch 

of the new vintage of Chianti Classico Collection 2009 and Chianti Classico Reserve 2008

the interior is very nice and functional

the bar

the inevitable symbol of the Chianti Classico wine made from natural corks

and the beautiful and huge area with the 200 wineries 
presenting their Chianti Classico wine

next time don't forget to come in Tuscany in February!

Umbria, Sagrantino wine, part two

SECOND PART

Here I am again;

so later on the same day I went to visit another pretty little medieval town: Spello

eyes on arch

typical alley

Roman Arch

Typical cat of Spello

owls before the window

pretty view

a cat on my way

well is time for the third part of the trip!

tuscany: olives harvest in chianti region, tuscany

Extra Virgin Olive Oil