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How to taste cheese? Last Step: Savor

Another step of our mini course on how to taste cheeses. We have seen that to taste cheeses we need all our senses. Before tasting we have to follow some tips (How to taste the cheeses: 8 rules to follow),

How to taste cheeses? Third step: the smell

Third step of our tasting cheese journey. After sight and touch now it’s time to smell. READ ALSO: “How to taste the cheeses: Sight” and “How to taste the cheeses: Touch“.  The smell is the third sense that we use

How to taste cheeses? Second Step: touch

We started a journey to understand how to taste the cheeses properly. As we have already written in the article “How to taste cheese? First step:sight”, tasting cheeses means examining them through sight, touch, smell and taste. When approaching a

Aging Pecorino Cheese in a cave

Aging Pecorino Cheese in a cave is an ancient ripening technique developed mainly in central Italy. There were no refrigerators and therefore to keep better cheese at good temperature during their maturing, they were placed in natural caves. It was

Pecorino di Pienza cheese pudding

Today we would like to propose you a pudding of Pecorino di Pienza with a broad bean sauce. It is often complicated to use cheeses to cook. Their intense flavor, their nature and their consistency allows them to be transformed into an

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How to taste cheese? First step:sight

Tasting cheeses means analyzing a small casket of flavors and aromas simply referring to our senses: sight, touch, smell and taste. In the article “How to taste cheeses: 8 rules to follow” we gave you some tips to a proper

Christmas Menu: First Dish and Main Course

For Christmas we have few but very important objectives: enjoy the day with the family and enjoy a special meal. Who has the honor to cook for this special day, however, often feels responsible for the success of the party,

Christmas Menu: easy recipes to impress

Do you have to prepare a Christmas menu? Do you have guests and you want to impress them? You don’t have ideas to create an easy menu that allows you to sit down at the table without spending Christmas in

Spaghetti with garlic, olive oil and pepper

Recipe for 4 people: Download here our tasty pasta recipe! INGREDIENTS: 75 ml Extra Virgin Olive Oil 1 Teaspoon of spice mix 500 g Pasta Pecorino Cheese   To prepare a quick and tasty pasta with garlic, olive oil and

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Christmas Gift Ideas: Baskets with tuscan products

Are you looking for Christmas gift ideas? Taste the magic of the holidays by giving a Christmas basket with typical tuscan products from Podere il Casale. When Christmas is in the doorway, every time, until the end we don’t know

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I Introduce you Podere Il Casale: The Olives Harvest

What are the secrets to produce a good olive oil? Listen to Massimo, who is the protagonist of this new episode of “Ti Presento Podere Il Casale”. Olive harvesting at Podere Il Casale is a special moment, where we collect

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How to taste cheese in 8 rules

In the past cheeses were considered poor food and served with no care, perhaps next to salami and croutons. Today people, have finally recognized the great value they have. Like for the wine, it is necessary to observe some rules

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Saffron Panna Cotta

Today we propose you a simple and special recipe: saffron panna cotta. Our purpose is to use the saffron for a “creamy dessert” and we chose the panna cotta. We think that panna cotta is a great dessert, even versatile,