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?
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!
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.
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.
Videolinea reports (Sardinia’s news channel) – Rossella’s release is still not officially confirmed. 8:02pm (Rome).
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.
Let us not forget. Bring all the lost and stolen children home.
Blessed be.
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?
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?”
Last nights sun was full of radiant colour. The skies are finally clear enough to watch the burning ball of flame set behind the Asinara Islands.
Pretty beautiful, eh?
Rossella Urru is a 29-year-old woman from Sardinia, Italy. On the evening of 22 – 23 October 2011, she was kidnapped (along with two colleagues) in Algeria. She was working for the company International Committee for the Development of Peoples (CISP).
There is a wonderful Italian blog dedicated to Rossella Urru, where you can leave/read letters of support, up-to-date recent press releases and poems written for Rossella by family, friends and strangers.
The blog is a meeting point for the immediate liberation of Rossella Urru.
It is time to bring Rossella Urru home.
She walked beside me and jabbered on. Her broken, high-pitched accent threw me for a loop. At first glance, she seemed so Sardinian, but as she talked that speculation evaporated. She told me that my spoken Italian is not the greatest, we laughed. She said “nor is mine.” We laughed again.
She moved to Sardinia sixteen years ago and brought with her half of her home village from Romania. Her energy spun around the warm air as she explained the sylvatic goodness of Sardinia’s wild roots and I found myself basking in the newfound education.
We hiked two kilometers together through the beautiful Sardinian wilderness, before she turned around and headed back to town, back to work.
We said our piacere’s and parted ways. I continued on the voyage.
What did you do today?
My Sardinian Mom is my husbands second cousin, her passion is paint and colour. Her house is a museum of beautiful colourful paintings, each one over the years hung on every wall space available.
She paints landscapes, women and children, fruit and vegetables. She paints on glass, canvas, leather and cotton. Her art is fantastic and truly Sardinian.
Her name is Maria Caterina Satta. She is an extremely humble person who has painted for over sixty years. In the last two years she has finally opened her art for the world to see.
Art critic Andrea Diprè and his team flew to Sardinia late last year to film a fifteen minute segment for his popular show on Italian TV.
Check it out for yourself.
The YouTube clip is in Italian. But you get to see her art!
What do you think?
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