Monthly Archives December 2013

Soup, is unavoidable over the winter months – and here’s savoury idea from

Mimi, with various vegetables for a Corsican soup – which is always plentiful and quite delicious.

The benefits from vitamins are, especially over these cold months, required and welcomed,

so, do indulge in soup whenever you can !                                    

Preparation: 15mins

Cooking: 2 hours

Ingredients:

– 1 farmer’s ham (prizutti) bone or 1 ham hock (with or without its bone)

– 2 slices of panzetta (bacon)

– 1 onion

– 1/2 of 1 kale

– 100grs flat beans

– 200grs pumpkin

– 1 courgette

– 1 leek

– 2 small turnips

– 5 small potatoes

– 2 carrots

 

Tonight at the vigil, we will listen to a story about a goblin.

Who is he ?

He is described as a small man, with an iron fist. He enters homes, preferably in the morning without making noise. Not everyone has met him, but those who have crossed his path, are not likely to forget him, and when he enters a house – it is very difficult to make him leave ..

One evening in Castagniccia, as night was falling, a brave miller was grinding his chestnuts when he heard a noise near his mill. Outside, he could hear a cold, sad and hungry child crying – so, the miller decided to take him home. When he tried to warm him, setting him near the fireplace where a large fire was burning, the boy took fright and refused, because he did not want the miller to see his forked feet...

Nuvalinu, in truth, is not one of those big, wealthy and populated villages of the coast, or one of those without being near the blue of the Mediterranean, that enjoys the proximity of an important route. On the contrary, it is one of those lost, mountain villages that has suffered enough from time, modernisation and her children’s exile...