Friday - And my very last cooking lesson at the Villa

Hi All

This is it, 2 weeks of bliss and hard work in the kitchen has come to an end today.

We have all been lazing about this morning having chats and just enjoying the Villa. Then one of the girls, Tanya asked me if I would like to join her for a walk.

So the two of us took a 2 hour walk, which was super. Hot and so many hills but really clears the mind and we got to talk about everything.

At 3 we started our very last cooking lesson with Laura. We made about 9 dishes for dinner. Laura had invited her sons along for dinner. We have a lovely dinner and good conversation. Last night is always a but sad as things have come to an end.

The food was really very good. We had a couple of repeat dishes from my Italian cooking course the previous week, but not to worry. Angela and I prepared lamb skewers that took us about 2 hours to put together as we had to remove all the fat and bones from the meat and then mince the Lamb ourselves!!! Won't be doing that anytime soon....I will ask the butcher to mince the meat for me. But then the end result was fantastic, they were so good we have finished them all. I will have to try this when I am home. We had that with Tzatsiki, which the 2 of us had also made, was very good.

Laura made a really good piece of Pork for us, done in the oven and stuffed with Wild Fennel and Sea salt and herb and loads of garlic. The meat was so tender and very juicy.

A couple of other interesting dishes, there were 2 pasta dishes that were very good. Stuffed Tomato's and a really good bell pepper salad.

Well that is it, the trip to Tuscany has come to an end. There will probably be more talk of food and drink but nothing that I have done at the Villa!

Hope you all had a wonderful day.

Deidre