Friday, May 30, 2014

Italian Vacation...Day Five...Cooking, Italian Style

Wednesday we went up higher up the cliffs to Montepertuso to a restaurant called La Tagliata
www.latagliata.com
 where we had a cooking lesson.
 The place was beautiful...the family that owns the restaurant also lives on property and has there own garden and animals.
 The lesson was fun, they taught us how to make traditional Italian food...
sorry my peeps, don't expect dinner...maybe you can ask Lonnie.
 While cooking our lunch we had wine....this is the first red wine I have had that wasn't too strong tasting and that I could actually drink...
it is made with grapes from their garden but the wine is made from someone else for them for the restaurant.
 The kitchen we used was an outdoor kitchen beside the rocks...it was very cool looking and feeling with a wonderful hillside view behind us.
We had a husband and a wife from Washington taking the class with us.
 All that food above was cooked for us, the 4 of us.
Once done cooking we took a small tour of the grounds and then went into the restaurant where our meal we cooked was served to us with wine and limencello and an excellent view.
 The picture above is from their lemon garden and below a beautiful picture of Positano where we are staying.
 I must say our drive here was very interesting...we were picked up by a driver the restaurant got for us, he really spoke no English, he drove like a crazy man like we were on a race track... going around all the curves on a road that barely fits one car let alone two with people walking on the streets...
CRAZY!!! 

I think I held on to the back seat door the whole time.
On the way down we had a better driver but we had to pay this time.
They suggested we take bus but after seeing the buses and the stops I knew I wanted a driver though it cost me 30 Euro...most expensive thing I have paid for so far. 
Our lesson and lunch took most of the day that by 3pm we were back at the villa calling it a day and enjoying another fabulous evening on the terrace.

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