Small compensation for being home.. zero food miles... these are ones that got away (from me!). So glad I’m so slack with my gardening!

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Missing the food of Italy!

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So, last night I had a first! I had Tripe for dinner!! My Grandad used to eat it boiled with vinegar on it - a major memory from my youth - looked/smelled absolutely disgusting... and chewy! It is considered a delicacy in Tuscany, and appears often on the menus. Last night - in the most bizarre of restaurants - I tried it. Cooked with fish, in a sauce and it was absolutely delicious!! The lengths I go to for Ali’s Country Kitchen research!! Be warned though.. amongst the other pix, it is the most disturbing!

Me & Burrata... we’re very close... one a day, thus far!

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The food.... Milan...

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Everything in Italy is done beautifully... and that’s not an Espresso Martini... it’s just coffee!

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Research going well thus far...

Taking a break... back at the Aga August 11th!

Some of these little beauties going out of my kitchen this morning!

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The perks of my job!

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Pretty food today! Happy days!

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The downside to feeding all those people in the woods... the washing up! Mostly today, I have been washing up! But with the view from the kitchen at The Brown Rock Woodland Project, it would be churlish to complain ♥️