Day 4

Preparing ingredients for pesto

Meal with the our host family.

Monteriggioni - walled city

Cafe at Monteriggioni

Ruins at Volterra

Streets of Volterra

Preparing stuffed conchigliana.

We had a wonderful day cooking today with 2 couples from the USA and one from Canada. Some of the unique things we made are homemade pesto sauce using a mortar and pestle, beans cooked in a glass beaker, and panna cotta with dark chocolate. Our pasta course was conchigliana stuffed with tuna, mozzarella, and olives. We learned about different kinds of olives and olive oils. In the afternoon, we traveled to Monteriggioni and Volterra. Both are walled cities and we were able to explore the Etruscan ruins. They were amazingly beautiful.