About chefbikeski
Culinary Director and Owner of Italiaoutdoors Food and Wine. Creator of uniquely personalized tours in Italy. Small groups, owner/expert led, customized to your desires, your budget. We personally design and lead each and every tour ourselves, to deliver the best in personalized service.
We find frittatas all over Italy during our cycling tours and ski holidays, but each region has its own favorite traditional variation. This dish hails from Umbria, where it would be served for Easter lunch. Easter dishes to me always … Continue reading →
Wherever we travel in Italy on our bike tours, be it Tuscany, Umbria, the Veneto, Trentino-Alto Adige, or Friuli Venezia Giulia, we find farro dishes on the menu. Farro is one of my favorite whole grains, we which find in … Continue reading →
Posted in beans, Soups, Uncategorized, Whole Grains
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Tagged beans, Bike and Wine tours, cook, Cooking, cooking classes, culinary bike tours, culinary bike trips, farro, Fitness, Food, Friuli Venezia Giulia, Italian cuisine, Italian Food, Italiaoutdoors, italiaoutdoorsfoodandwine, Italy, Italy hiking trips, minstra di farro, Northern Italy, private bike trips, private ski trips, Recipe, Soup, Travel, Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol, Tuscany, Veneto
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During our visits to the Dolomites, we enjoy some wonderful and distinctive local dishes, along with great skiing and cycling. One of the most unique, and striking, is casunziei ampezzani, a specialty of the ski town Cortina D’Ampezzo (Curtain of … Continue reading →
Posted in beets, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Pasta, Ricotta, Travel, Trentino Food, Uncategorized, Veneto Food
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Tagged beet ravioli, beets, Bike and Wine tours, casunziei, cook, Cooking, cooking classes, culinary bike tours, Fitness, Food, fresh, Friuli Venezia Giulia, Italian cuisine, Italian Food, italiaoutdoorsfoodandwine, Italy, Italy hiking trips, Northern Italy, pasta, private bike trips, private ski trips, Recipe, Travel, Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol, vegetarian, Veneto
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Pasta is considered by many to be the ‘staple’ starch in the standard Italian diet, but on our biking, skiing and hiking adventures in northern Italy, we see more polenta than pasta. Northern Italians literally survived on this staple for … Continue reading →
Posted in Polenta, Travel, Uncategorized, Vegetarian, Veneto Food, Whole Grains
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Tagged Bike and Wine tours, cook, Cooking, cooking classes, corn, culinary bike tours, culinary bike trips, Food, gluten free, Italian cuisine, Italian Food, Italiaoutdoors, italiaoutdoorsfoodandwine, Italy, Italy hiking trips, Northern Italy, Polenta, private bike trips, private ski trips, Recipe, Travel, Veneto, whole grains
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Ricotta cheese is an Italian whey cheese found all over Italy. Virtually every cheese producer we find on our Italy gourmet bike tours or ski adventures make some sort of ricotta, along with their other products. Whey is the liquid … Continue reading →
Posted in Baking, Dessert, Ricotta, Uncategorized, Vegetarian
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Tagged Bike and Wine tours, cook, Cooking, cooking classes, culinary bike tours, culinary bike trips, Food, Italian cuisine, Italian Food, Italiaoutdoors, italiaoutdoorsfoodandwine, Italy, Italy hiking trips, Northern Italy, Pastry, private bike trips, private ski trips, Recipe, Ricotta, strudel, Travel
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