mint leaves and ginger roots fried omelette

While I have prepared the pesto for Enrico, I have made myself this fried omelette for lunch.  I love it so much that I usually eat it with white rice and soysouce.  The wonderful smell of fresh mint and the ginger when they  are sizzling in the frying pan, release the fragrance that  it is able to trigger my sweet memory of  my hometown far far far away, my childhood, my parents (especially my mom when she was preparing this plate), dinners that were shared with the rest of the members of the family, and relatives that I have left behind...here you go,try it out...

Ingredients

A punch of washed mint leaves
A piece of fresh ginger root cut in julienne
One or two beaten egg or whole egg if you prefer
Some cooking oil
Soy sauce

Wash the mint leaves, cut the ginger in julienne.  Heat up the one spoonful of cooking oil and fry the ginger til brown and add the mint leaves.  Fry the mint leaves until soft then add in the beaten or whole eggs.  Once is done enjoy it alone with some soy sauce or with the warm cooked rice....

pasta con pesto

After these few days of rain,  basil plants are growing bigger and bigger each day from the garden.  So today I've prepared a plate of pesto with gnocchetti sardi (a small shell  pasta) for Enrico.  Pesto in Italian means grind, pound, or crush. Collect some basil leaves or buy them in the supermarket.  Here I have used a special knife "mezzaluna" half-moon knife to cut the leaves on the chopboard.  Add the garlic while you are cutting the leaves and, of course, pine nuts if you have some around.  Once you have reduced them  in a paste add good olive oil and salt to taste.  Obviously the last thing you must add to you plate is parmesan cheese...buonappetito

Ingrediets

A bunch of basil leaves        
Some pine nuts
2 or more cloves of garlic
good olive oil
100g  fettucini pasta or gnocchetti per  person
parmesan cheese

sunset

I could not resist but took out my camera to capture this beautiful sunset from my window, it was so breathtaking and I just could not stop jumping and uttering out "ooo!!!", "wow!!!", calling everyone away from watching world cup and admire this great scene.

Carmen Consoli - L'eccezione

Adore this female Italian singer...

two white dresses

These two dresses were made with letters that my dad sent to me.  I had photocopied them and glued them with a piece of fabric as backing and carefully cut them into strips, then machined stitched them on the white dresses.  Apart from the machine stitching,  Black threads were deliberately left hanging on the the dresses as though they were my thoughts.  I had also added hand embroidery and a mixed of white fabrics to give a feel of lightness to the ideas of  "thoughtfulness" and wishes to my dad...

bird's eye view of north Sardinia

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A bird's eye view of lands towards the airport of Alghero .  The fields look like a patched carpet with different shades of green. You can see also some specks of white dots, they are sheep grazing on the fields.  The specks of green and yellowish plants, the distinctive mediterranean's vegetation, growing vigorously  throughout the whole island. They resemble very much like french knots in stitching.  Finally the air lane was flying closer  to the ground,  houses and the surroundings become much bigger and bigger, in my mind I knew that within minutes I would be back to my home after a few days away from the island...

Elisa - Una poesia anche per te

one of my favorites italian female singers: ELISA

JP-Juice (Naoki Kenji) Fukai

    I hope you will like this song...

hand-made bags

some of the bags I had made and sold, will upload some others if I can find them in my computer...

Exhibition in "Il Buco"

I had so much fun doing these stitching for an exhibition in my friend's gallery.  Some of them I had given to friends.  I had used both hand stitching combined with machine stitching.  Most of them came from the inspirations from common objects that I use at home like my teapot, messages used for Diego and my sons, news that I had read, phrase that had been said to describe President Obama by our premier but by changing the last word which is, in my own opinion, politically correct....

Bye bye...

Finally I have managed to frame all of them and they are ready to leave me to my friend's shop, hopefully  they will find the owners who will love them and treasure them as much as I do...bye bye my babies....

Piazza Azzuni--spring flower sales and exhibition

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Not long ago Piazza Azzuni was displayed with all kind of lovely flowers and ornamental trees.  Stands were selling different varieties of them for homes, gardens or balconies...I wish that the mayor would consider about leaving some of them in the piazza which it would not only add charm to the surrounding but also a very pleasant place to hang out with friends in the evening for a drink or a snack...