Just an F-Blog #73. Days of Wine and Tortellini.
Well, as far as my memory wants to browse through this depressing and heavy year, this has probably been of the most fun weekends. Most certainly so. Well, our annual-almost-christmas, read Wine Festival, definitely helped a lot. Andrea arrived from Italy on time, Marijana skipped this year's iteration, because she was busy, Ricky had afternoon meeting in Italy (and he doesn't care much about wine anyway), so this year it was Iggy, Berti, Matjaž and Andrea (and me, of course) and two other friends, lovely couple Nina and Dejan, joined us.
So Friday... We decided to be trendy this year, so - at least in the beginning - we tried to taste orange wines. I have to say it's quite an interesting experience to taste white/orange wine with intensity and taste of a typical red barique. Definitely something I will be coming back to. And then, when the night was becoming more and more blurry, I am sure we definitely tried a lot of other stuff. So when we came home (where Ricky waited for us with dinner), the evening just... exploded in music, food and more wine. And we rediscovered Wii.
Saturday... Ricky brought his a few weeks' old plan to life. He wanted to make tortellini. And he made them, oh how he made them. We (Andrea, Iggy and me) helped him and together we made a really great lunch, a perfect post-hangover soup with tortellini for the wine festival group. Needless to say, the group was a lot more quite the next day. LOL
And then a victorious Saturday evening. The choir Iggy is singing in took a part in choral competition and nailed it biggest time. And I was crying all the time, pussy me. But they were doing some Gershwin which I adore and they were bloody good and I was bloody happy and proud. So, yes, a total victory.
And today... good food, easy time, also some sunshine and some Wii and... it was a wonderful, wonderful weekend.
Away from life.
So, here you have a few pictures from, I could say, one of 2012 highlights and the rest is, of course, in a flickr set.
Orange Andrea and me.
Wine festival aftermath #1: Somebody was cooking, while others were singing.
Wine festival aftermath #2: Nina.
Wine festival aftermath #3: Dejan and Andrea.
Wine festival aftermath #4: Fly, Berti, fly.
Tortellini in the making.
Isn't it nice to have Italian friends?
Matjaž in the sun.
Iggy wooooooooooooooooooooooooooooon! :)))
So Friday... We decided to be trendy this year, so - at least in the beginning - we tried to taste orange wines. I have to say it's quite an interesting experience to taste white/orange wine with intensity and taste of a typical red barique. Definitely something I will be coming back to. And then, when the night was becoming more and more blurry, I am sure we definitely tried a lot of other stuff. So when we came home (where Ricky waited for us with dinner), the evening just... exploded in music, food and more wine. And we rediscovered Wii.
Saturday... Ricky brought his a few weeks' old plan to life. He wanted to make tortellini. And he made them, oh how he made them. We (Andrea, Iggy and me) helped him and together we made a really great lunch, a perfect post-hangover soup with tortellini for the wine festival group. Needless to say, the group was a lot more quite the next day. LOL
And then a victorious Saturday evening. The choir Iggy is singing in took a part in choral competition and nailed it biggest time. And I was crying all the time, pussy me. But they were doing some Gershwin which I adore and they were bloody good and I was bloody happy and proud. So, yes, a total victory.
And today... good food, easy time, also some sunshine and some Wii and... it was a wonderful, wonderful weekend.
Away from life.
So, here you have a few pictures from, I could say, one of 2012 highlights and the rest is, of course, in a flickr set.
Orange Andrea and me.
Wine festival aftermath #1: Somebody was cooking, while others were singing.
Wine festival aftermath #2: Nina.
Wine festival aftermath #3: Dejan and Andrea.
Wine festival aftermath #4: Fly, Berti, fly.
Tortellini in the making.
Isn't it nice to have Italian friends?
Matjaž in the sun.
Iggy wooooooooooooooooooooooooooooon! :)))