tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-47340538533785407842024-03-13T18:17:13.727+01:00Casa sul MonteBuilding and Living our Dream in the Heart of UmbriaRob Daviehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02871771093665303158noreply@blogger.comBlogger35125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4734053853378540784.post-76980798398830849292013-11-29T22:22:00.000+01:002013-12-02T12:30:12.961+01:00Hard Pressed for Virgin Olive Oil<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">These last few days of November have been a hive of activity at Casa sul Monte and pretty much everywhere we look we see fine nets draped like frost jewelled spiders webs under many of the hundreds of olive trees growing on the local hills. Its olive picking season!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The ripe olives are beaten and raked off the trees by local farmers, as many relatives and friends as possible that can be co-opted onto the task and, on occasions, other paid workers to help with the labour intensive and time consuming task. The nets are arranged to collect the olives as they fall, from which they are collected by hand, sorted from branches and leaves, and placed in plastic crates.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Dozens of crates are filled, precariously loaded onto trailers, back seats of cars and any other available vehicle, for transport to one of many local mills.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">At the mill the olives are unceremoniously tipped into a large hopper to start their journey ... from raw fruit to beautiful, fragrant, peppery nectar!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The first step involves removing those leaves and bits of olive branch that have made the journey this far ... it is interesting to note how some loads arrive very well cleaned of this waste material, others much less so!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The olives, given an initial wash, drop onto the first of many conveyors that step by step, process by process, now take over and gently carry the fruit towards its inevitable but wonderful end. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Each batch of olives is carefully controlled and managed through the system to ensure it is kept totally separate from the preceding and subsequent loads, so each farmer is assured the oil received at the end is from their own olives.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Once their gross weight has been recorded (the farmer paying a fee per kilo for the processing) the olives wait their turn in the hoppers ...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">... from where they are disgorged into another bath for a final thorough and vigorous wash before being delivered into the grinder and macerator.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Large rotating blades methodically grind their way though kilos of olives, reducing them to a thick pulp that is then pumped into the </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">centrifugal </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">press and the unwanted water content discarded. The unfiltered oil that remains is </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">extracted and </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">directed into a separate channel where the first of several filters removes any remaining pulp.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This freshest of virgin olive oils is literally minutes old, still cloudy and has a vibrant green colour and unique sweet-peppery taste, characteristics that it will unfortunately quickly loose and hence are rarely found in the more processed and refined virgin olive oil typically available commercially.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The very best way to enjoy this wonderful oil is to lightly toast a fresh slice of the typically unsalted Umbrian bread, rub this with a clove of garlic, pour the new oil liberally all over the slice ... sprinkle with sea salt and eat while warm! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Surrounded by hectares of natural indigenous forest our daily walks invariably bring us across mushrooms of every shape, size and colour, particularly in the cooler autumn months. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">During the season many local villagers are out every day, basket in hand, seeking the most prized specimens of edible varieties to supplement their typical Umbrian diet. We have now discovered that Italy is one of the leading countries in the world for the picking and consumption of wild mushrooms with a long tradition, invariably passed from father to son, of foraging in the woods in favourite if secret locations for this bountiful, natural and delicious crop.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The wide variety present in this region, together with the ever present reality of many inedible species and several fatally toxic ones, means that specialist knowledge is essential to find, recognise and safely enjoy these amazing 'fruits of the forest'. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Throughout Italy government sponsored training courses are run every year by qualified and licensed Micology experts to share their knowledge and so help instruct and train any aspiring mushroom hunter on how to find, recognise and differentiate between the various species. In particular the courses focus on how to be certain which mushrooms are safe for consumption, which are inedible for various reasons and, especially, the species to be avoided at all costs because of their fatally poisonous toxins!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Full attendance at such a course (10 sessions totalling more than 20 hours of lectures over a three week period) qualifies participants for the 'Certificate of Training' necessary to be granted a Local Authority licence to legally collect mushrooms in the public forests. In addition, many town councils hold weekly clinics run by qualified experts to help you identify </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">any mushrooms you have picked </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">and certify (or not) their suitability for human consumption.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Earlier this year I completed one of these courses and now have the necessary 'Certificate' to allow me to collect wild mushrooms ... and have since spent many hours enjoying long walks in the local forests looking for some of the varieties of edible mushrooms available at this time of year.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A beautiful example of a young fresh </span><i style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Lactarius Deliciosus</i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> (L), known locally as 'Sanguinelli', nestling among the moss and autumn leaves of the pine forest floor, it's favourite habitat.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A couple of hours walk in the forest provides a wonderful crop of over two kilos of 'Sanguinelli' to be carefully inspected, cleaned and prepared for cooking!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Strange as it may sound, another unique and distinguishing characteristic of this delicious variety of mushroom is the blood-red sap it produces when the stalk or cap is cut, hence its popular name 'Sanguinello' ... or 'bloody'!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The slices of mushrooms are then carefully packed into preserving jars with an occasional sprinkling of whole black pepper corns and a few dried chilies, before completely covering them in virgin olive oil. These can then be stored for up to a year if necessary but are best enjoyed regularly as an accompaniment to fresh bread and cheese and/or a selection of 'salumi' - local cured meats.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The dull grey, grimy and encrusted timber panels turn out to be a pair of beautifully crafted doors made from large solid sections of golden douglas fir that, despite its appearance, has survived exceptionally well with no rotting, splitting or warping.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Considering the doors are over 70 years old (some people in the village remember when they were made and by whom!) and it looks as though they have not been well cared for or treated or otherwise protected for years … the joints between panels and rails remain as perfect as the day they were made.</span></div>
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Rob Daviehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02871771093665303158noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4734053853378540784.post-77791801730276440602012-09-29T11:44:00.000+02:002013-12-02T11:58:36.605+01:00Making a Splash<div style="text-align: center;">
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<br />Rob Daviehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02871771093665303158noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4734053853378540784.post-2086142387926060482012-09-19T12:41:00.000+02:002013-12-02T12:47:25.109+01:00Getting Ready for Bed?<div style="text-align: center;">
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Rob Daviehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02871771093665303158noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4734053853378540784.post-71870347509884053502012-08-21T13:06:00.000+02:002013-12-02T13:12:37.521+01:00Sealing up the Ceiling<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Floor areas in the two ground level apartments are to be finished with large format (30 x 45 cms) rustic hand-finished, natural clay colour, ceramic tiles.</span></span></div>
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Thanks Jonny … the results are great and the roof timbers now look wonderful.</div>
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Rob Daviehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02871771093665303158noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4734053853378540784.post-68599518876374706172012-06-05T15:21:00.000+02:002013-12-02T15:27:40.357+01:00Open and Shut Case-ments <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;">At time of purchase we knew our new home was not connected to the local sewage network but we did expect to find a working cesspit … or so we were told!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Surprise, surprise … when planning the new plumbing layout we searched for how to connect to the existing installation but were somewhat shocked to find all previous waste and sewage simply dispersed into the ground … and not that far from the house!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A totally new bio-waste disposal system was therefore planned and installed.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This involves burying a sequential set of large plastic containers with intermediary inspection pits through which all waste and sewage from the house will now be passed and processed.</span></div>
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<span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The existing slope and falls in the site allow this process to happen gradually and naturally eventually leading to a final clean water outlet down beyond the tree line, now a suitable and legally appropriate distance from the house.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Once installed and connected the whole plant is buried with the extracted soil. As soon as natural ground cover is re-established this new waste disposal system will be lost in the landscaping … quietly working away with very little maintenance for years to come. </span></div>
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Rob Daviehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02871771093665303158noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4734053853378540784.post-82124895124087572912012-04-16T15:40:00.000+02:002013-12-02T15:44:41.663+01:00Stepping Up<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We ordered two new steps from a local mason made from ‘Pietra Serena’, a beautiful smooth grey stone available locally. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Two steps with matching risers were quickly prepared and are now installed. Each step is milled from a single piece of stone 10 cm thick, the main step weighing over 140 kg and the smaller top step well over 60 kg.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Slightly boss eyed, it soulfully pleaded for adoption … almost crying out not to be discarded! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But where to keep and what to do with such an unusual collectors piece? Any ideas?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">As the top plaster coat dries all the rooms look and feel much bigger and brighter. Definitely looking more finished now … soon ready for decorations!</span></div>
Rob Daviehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02871771093665303158noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4734053853378540784.post-38641371194036076782012-03-17T15:58:00.000+01:002013-12-02T16:00:45.575+01:00Ice Road Truckers<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Rob Daviehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02871771093665303158noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4734053853378540784.post-46965661696439228102012-03-17T15:53:00.000+01:002013-12-02T15:57:36.122+01:00Plumbed and Wired<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Rob Daviehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02871771093665303158noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4734053853378540784.post-38601459074950364682012-03-17T15:49:00.000+01:002013-12-02T15:52:58.794+01:00A Corner Stone<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; text-align: left;">Careful re-plastering and pointing of this corner will allow us to leave several of these wonderful stones exposed, adding a uniquely genuine detail to the character of the room.</span></div>
Rob Daviehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02871771093665303158noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4734053853378540784.post-74202819597768048502012-03-17T15:45:00.000+01:002013-12-02T15:48:41.417+01:00Pointing to the Future<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This picture shows all three stages … top left, just visible, part of the original stone facade, across the middle of the picture newer stone deep pointed with grey cement … and then to the right, just under the new window, a small section of the new pointing as a colour trial.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The individual stones will mostly disappear and hopefully blend into a richly textured antique cream colour … that is if it does exactly what is says on the tin! </span></div>
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