Depending on your view of the world, Sardinia is smack-dab center, in the middle of the world.
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Category Archives: SARDINIA – SARDEGNA
How to Hunt for Wild Sardinian Asparagus
Three and a half years ago I went on my first asparagus hunting excursion, it was painful. I came home with squinty eyes and a headache and vowed never to do it again.
The first few years was like trying to find a needle in a haystack. I actually detested going out, but that waned with each new dish prepared. Now, I am a pro. Yes, a pro-asparagus hunter and I love each moment.
Follow me on a voyage to hunt for one of Sardinia’s wild vegetables.
How to Hunt for Wild Sardinian Asparagus
International Women’s Day 2012
It’s been one hundred and three years since the first International Women’s Day was observed in the United States. Today around the world men and women will join hands in solidarity, peace and equality.
As of today, Rossella Urru has been held hostage in Algeria for 138 days, 8 hours, and 41 minutes.
FREEDOM FOR ROSSELLA URRU
When you reflect on the women in your life today, please take a moment to say a prayer for those women, in 2012, who have had their freedom so brutally taken.
138 days held hostage in Algeria. 138 days of uncertainty. Freedom for Rossella Urru!
Blessed be.
10 Remarkable Reasons to Visit Sardinia, Italy
“Sardinia is another thing. Much wider, much more ordinary, not up-and-down at all, but running away into the distance. Unremarkable ridges of moor-like hills running away, perhaps to a bunch of dramatic peaks on the southwest. This gives a sense of space … lovely space about one, and traveling distances-nothing finished, nothing final. It is like liberty itself … ” D.H. Lawrence. Sea and Sardinia. 1921.
10 Remarkable Reasons to Visit Sardinia, Italy
Yesterdays Lunch
This is my all time favourite Sardinian meal yet! It’s super easy to make and jam-packed with oodles of protein and yummy goodness.
2 freshly caught Sardinian Orate
3 Potatoes chopped
2 tomatoes chopped
1 zucchini chopped
Herbs to your liking.
Bake for 45 minutes at 180 degrees.
Remove and enjoy!
How do you like your fish?
Sardinian Local Experts Award
Sardinian Local Experts Award
A HUGE thank you to the folks over at Charming Italy who have nominated My Sardinian Life for the Local Experts Award in Sardinia.
It’s a huge honour to be among some of the best bloggers (on Sardinia) in the industry. Grazie mille!
Charming Italy’s enthusiastic effort in creating this award, has led me to a number of new blogs on Sardinia, which I am currently exploring. Here’s two:
Sipping Sardinia – An awesome expat blog from a Polish woman who lives in Nuoro, Sardinia.
Wandering Sardinia – This blog is written in Italian and English. I hope to make that jump one day!
Why don’t you head over to Charming Italy now and see what all the fuss is about.
One million thank you’s!
How to make a Bamboo Ladder | DIY
I’ve never been good at designing things or working with my hands, despite the fact that I enjoy working with my hands. However, generally the outcome is not what I had imagined at the beginning. So, maybe you can imagine my joy when I finally put my latest idea to the test.
Bamboo is a wonderful, quick-growing, giant, versatile plant that grows in abundance in Sardinia. One year ago Hub was heading into the mountains with a friend. I asked him to collect me some wild, Sardinian bamboo. He came back with half a truck load.
Freedom For Rossella Urru | Update
FREEDOM FOR ROSSELLA URRU
There is much speculation on the release of Rossella Urru. Was Twitter a flurry with only a rumour yesterday afternoon? I hope not. It’s time to bring this beautiful young woman home.
Four months held hostage in Algeria. Four months of uncertainty. Freedom for Rossella Urru!
UPDATE – The family of Rossella Urru have not yet confirmed her release.
Videolinea reports (Sardinia’s news channel) – Rossella’s release is still not officially confirmed. 8:02pm (Rome).
UPDATE – March 4th – Reality doesn’t run as fast as one ‘tweet.’
There lies much mystery surrounding the release of Rossella Urru. Her family has NOT confirmed her release.
Twitter went a buzz yesterday afternoon with news that maybe Rossella was free. That rumour seems to be just that, a rumour.
FREEDOM FOR ROSSELLA URRU!
Let us not forget. Bring all the lost and stolen children home.
Blessed be.
Her Beautiful Green Thumb
Her flowers always bloom with colour where mine wilt-brown and fade. Her thumb is green, alright. She knows just the right light, angled perfectly by the compass, to allow the buds to bloom beautiful shades of vibrant colours.
I can grow herbs, and sunflowers. Abundance of colours are not my thing, sadly.
Parsley, basil, thyme, cilantro and budding yellow sunflowers give me half a green thumb. To her full green thumb. She’s a wise young Sardinian friend, always willing to help and educate.
I’ve tried and tried again to grow colour, but she isn’t accepting of me. Instead I photograph her beauty in the wild and potted in friends gardens.
Do you have a green thumb?
A Photographic Journey | Li Feruli | Sardinia, Italy
It started out as a drab, grey winter-ish day. Once the sun edged closer to the mountain top, the skies opened, to the bluest of beautiful blues. I met her in town, she asked “Vieni a Li Feruli oggi?”
A Photographic Journey. Li Feruli. Sardinia, Italy.
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