A box was waiting for me today when I came back from work with my most prized souvenirs from Italy…..
The olive oils!
There are a million and one ideas going through my head as to how best use the olive oil and the truffle down to the very last drop!
One of my dream holidays is to go to the Tuscan countryside, rent a house on a farm, pick fresh fruits and vegetables, make delicious food and eat. So when we went to Florence, I just had to go to the Tuscan countryside and eat. I want to accomplish just even a little bit part of my dream and that’s what we did.
We took a beautiful car ride to a medieval town that I completely forgot its name and don’t feel like googling (ok I googled it, San Gimignano) and then off to Chianti, Tuscany’s main wine region. Our driver took us to a vineyard and olive oil producing farm as they called it.
We had a light lunch there but it was in no way light! It was very filling and very amazing!
To taste the olive oil they gave us a plate of a traditional tuscan bread (the non-salted one) soaked in their olive oil and the freshest chopped tomatoes and melt in your mouth cubes of mozzarella cheese.
Let me tell you about this great, no-fuss, restaurant in Rome that we absolutely fell in love with that we had to go back again!
I’ve used my sometimes trusty Rome Wallpaper guide (iPhone edition) to pick our restaurants and this is the one time it did not fail us.
I’ll just show you what we had during our two visits…
Now wasn’t that mouth-watering?
Posts coming up: regional italian dishes and the best meal we have ever had!
The Oven Experiments 