Showing posts with label Fanano. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Fanano. Show all posts

Thursday, February 8, 2018

Fanano, and lunch in Canevare


Next fo my village there is another pretty village, with old houses and traditions. We went for a guided tour and were lucky enough to visit the clock tower (something that many friends who lived all their life in Fanno told me they never did!). Ahhh the beauty of coming back as a tourist! It also made me appreciate more everything that I use to give for granted when I was leaving there!


The staircases inside the clock tower

Homes, churches, towers, roofs, streets, little details, and everything surrounded by snowy mountains 






Not far there is another tiny village, which is under the Fanano Council, the name is Canevare, and it has a beautiful stone church and square, high up in the mountains.


There is also a fine restaurant (and hotel), Albergo Ristorante Gabriella, where they make their own pasta (ok, all restaurants do the same here, we are in Emilia Romagna after all), beautiful jams, cakes and so on... anyway, this was the menu in January



I had the Rustici di Patate (potato ravioli with pomegranate and rosemary), and it was divine!


Husband and kids all had the spaghettoni ai funghi (homemade spaghetti with mushrooms), which were good, but not as good as my rustici!


Lovely mountain style decor throughout the place





Then we had some cheese, accompanied by Gabriella's famous jams and preserves, delicious!



And they brought us a complimentary basket of gnocco fritto, my favourite fried bread!!




Grappa and liqueurs to digest
Will definitely be back here! Ciao Fanano e ciao Canevare!

Photos by Alessandra Zecchini ©

Tuesday, July 4, 2017

From my mountains...



I was in Italy in spring, enjoying the flowers in the mountains, and the village fairs. After Easter there is this game in Fanano, coccetto, where you try to crack your opponent eggs (hard boiled and painted). Great fun for the children, and the adults!





 Walking in the countryside builds appetite!



Had my favourite, tortelloni, while my brother had cannelloni and my sister in law gnocchetti with cheese and aceto balsamico. Plus we shared some fried veggies (with lots of fried artichokes).




The village of Fanano


A view of the Libro Aperto (open book) mountains


Staples at home: bread, parmigiano and lambrusco


Macciola, 



Found a few mushrooms, not enough for a meal, but with a few zucchini enough to dress a plate of pasta


The garden is actually a wood with wild flowers


Sestola, my village


After a pizza they gave us free limoncello... tons of it!!


Photos by Alessandra Zecchini ©

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