I thought it was like a Carnival party, but it’s more about music and DJs. It’s one of the few parties based in Florence, where you really can enjoy happy people, great DJs and whole day far from the regular city parties.
Let’s finish with the line up! line up Sunflower closing party 2015
And the location, of course!
Manduca Florencelet the flowers start!phillip and Cole, two popular DJs from Florence Satoshi Tomie Fabrizio Sala Let me say it has been an heavy day, but I wish to be still there… Dancing and listening to some great electro music #summerIsAlwaysOn
I was hanging around, just off the office, so why don’t have a great beer-time in one of the best Irish pub of the city?
Here we go: Lion’s Fountain is its name and it’s located exactly in the centre, in San Pier Maggiore square. Lion’s fountain Florence
Here you are its famous ‘fountain’:
Lion’s Fountaininside Lion’s fountain
As you can see from these pictures, it’s one of the most international place because thanks to its position, its special beers and above all to the fact that it’s possible to watch Football matches, it has become very popular among the foreign students who live in the city.
All the football supporters always go there.. before, during or after the matches, and this is its great fortune.
Moreover, you can also choose to have a delicious brunch:
Their motto? #beLions !
If you have the chance, enjoy Lions of Florence!
Good morning! It’s my last day off after my vacation, and I’m in Naples, hence nothing’s better than celebrate with a good lunch with freshly made pasta with seafood (it is very common in this city to eat seafood on Sundays).
I’m going to describe you each step for cooking a great pasta with seafood, or more exactly ‘vermicelli by De Cecco‘ with venus clams, swordrazors and hardclams.
Enjoy this recipe!
Step 1 – everything you need is: little tomatoes (The perfect ones are ‘datterini‘) and a few persil, garlic and little chili peppers, vermicelli pasta and seafood:
datterini tomatoes and persil – directly from the marketvermicelli pasta by De Ceccogarlic and little chili peppersseafood: venus clams, hard clams, swordrazors Step 2: while preparing the above-listed ingredients in a pan, you can put some water to boil in a pot.
Put the seafood, with a little salt, garlic, persil and tomatoes in a pan and let them cook for some minutes until their shells open: this means they’re are ready to be eaten. salt in the seafood
seafood with shells openwaiting for boiling waterpan and pot
Step 3: mix the seafood in order to have a colorful and flavored result. In the meantime, as soon as you can see the boiling water, you can add some salt in the pot and then add Vermicelli: mix seafood
put salt in the boiling wateradd vermicelli pastacooking pasta for less minutes than it’s shown …you need to know a little secret: everytime you cook pasta, you have always to let it cook in its water for less minutes than it’s written in their packaging, and then cook it for the remaining munutes in the dressing you chose.
In this case, thanks to this step, you could cook pasta for some more minutes together in the pan with seafood.
The results?
😍😍😍
It happens when you’re back in those place where you have lived, and you find all those products that are so genuine, nothing but ‘bio’ or ‘organic’ or ‘eco-something’…just so natural
Let’s start from fried figs, they used to be one of the top dessert for our grandparents, and fortunately they’re still prepared and used by families:
Those are the popular red peppers: traditionally, they’re put at the sun because they need to get dry. Then, the dried peppers can be used to have a sort of peppers-powder to dress pasta or prepare fried peppers:red peppers of Basilicatared peppers dying at the sun
And here you are a typical kind of pear named ‘pera signora‘ (in English it would be Miss Pear 😁) that is becoming even more important for its uniqueness: pera signora – products sustainability
pears, tomatoes, potatoes, auberginescomplete products line from pera signora: jam, marmelade, fruit juice, in syrup
Pera Signora is part of Slow Food project, see here for more details
And this is a very giant bread made in Calabria – I think a family of 4/5 people can survive for a month also if eating only it:giant bread – from Calabria
crunchy and giant bread made in Calabria
Finally, it is worth to mention pasta – more exactly it’s ‘rigatoni‘ with bacon and eggs, or white-Amatriciana, and a little dessert made of choco-profiterols: white amatriciana with rigatoni pasta
choco-profiterols
If these pictures male you drool and you got hungry, well… enjoy your meal 😁
Some weeks ago, I wend through these two completely different wedding parties: styles, menu, people, locations, deco and so on… The only thing in common? The amount of things to eat!!
The beginning: an unexpected Japanese-style wedding 😍 wedding tree
sugared almonds and other cerealslocation Visconti, Marconia – Basilicata coast
and some other Japanese deco and sushi: kaede table list
sushi and other menuorigami butterfly and sugared almondsorigami Japanese box
wedding gift – Japanese cranes symbols of happiness
And this is the ’50s: old and polka dot 500
love bicycle – wedding day at Garden, Materasuper big hall – Garden Palace in Materamohito sorbet and liquiricemagic gardens of ‘Garden’ in Materagardens of Garden Palace – Materaheart sculpture in a treeIce sculture and infinite fruits buffet
That’s it! And everything ended with lots more weight 🙂