Sunset in Spongano, Italy
Sunset in Spongano
Tim, Corinne, Patrick and Chuck visiting on the roof of the poolhouse at the palazzo in Spongano
Patrick in the kitchen of the palazzo in Spangano
Sylvester and Chuck in the kitchen Baron Alessandro built for Sylvestor's cooking classes
Corinne and Tim coming up from the kitchen of the palazzo
Everyone help set the table
Corinne and Tim in the palazzo di Spongano
Corinne "Kitten" Hoisington
The fireplace in the great hall of the Palazzo di Spongano
Setting the table with fancy napkin folding skills
The table is set
The wine is uncorked
The chopping is building a caprese salad
The chicken is braising
The orechetta is ready (ear pasta). It is more brown because of the use of barley in the pasta of Apulia
Some assembly still required of the insalata caprese
These mushrooms will be yummy
Fresh rosemary and mustard
Sharon Day has mad skills with slicing garlic
That nice round mozzarella has a center of cream that will make a yummy scrumptious insalata caprese
Mix it in
Insalata caprese
Dinner unfolds
Candlelight dinner with friends into the wee hours
Patrick and Corinne enjoying good conversation
Birthday Boy Sylvester certainly has his Italian passion in play
Sylvester listens well
Sylvester celebrates his 40th birthday... or the first anniversary of his 39th.
Corinne enjoys the party
Giuseppe visits with this week's class at Awaiting Table
Sylvester celebrates his birthday with friends
Patrick celebrates Sylvestor's birthday
Tim has recently had a big birthday himself.
Our group is ready to retire as Patrick has to drive us back to the hotel in Acaya (or Acaja, or Acaia)
The road to Lecce from our hotel in Acaya/Acaja/Acaia... they can't decide, aparently.
The old city wall of Lecce
We gather at the Porto di Napoli to start day two of the celebrations
Lecce has an obelisk like Rome only not stolen from the Egyptians. :-)
The streets of Lecce
