Another outing in my week long workshop adventure this past summer in Cortona, Italy was a visit to a hotel/restaurant up in the mountains from Cortona. This place was called......
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A lady outside in the courtyard.....
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Here are me and Milliande posing outside the hotel grounds before we went in.....
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We were asked to help prepare our evenings meal and some of us helped at different times with different courses of the meal. Everything they used was fresh.....from the rosemary...
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To the vegetables, garlic and eggs...
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Look at this bounty......
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Here is the chef preparing the dough for the spaghetti......
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Here we are all helping roll out the spaghetti for pasta course......
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More rolling.....
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Here is Denise, one of our hosts, with fresh zucchini blossoms that will get dipped in batter and deep fried....yum!
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From this.....
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To this.....wonderful gnocchi and fresh tomato sauce.....
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And the preparation for the flatbread......
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Which we had with an amazing platter of......
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This cheese.......
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And the preparation of the dessert....a plum torte.....
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And this grappa was part of the ingredients....
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The vegetarians of the group.....Susan and Milliande eating parsley!
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Ristorante "Portole"......an amazing night and meal.....
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And friends to last a lifetime.....
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