Learning to weave baskets

31th of March 2009

On this day we were introduced to the family, farm and even though it rained in small short bursts we still got time to do some work and explore. The day started late at about 12 but we still had an incredible breakfast prepared by Noemi, the oldest daugther and the only one of the three children who work at the farm. She surprised us with warm milk, coffee, cocoa, honey, gem tart (caringa), cake (ceambelone). I wrote the Italian names as well because Luisa was near me for breakfast today (1st) and we had the same, along with liqueur cake with chocolate filling and oat meal with warm milk and apple. The chocolate cake was made by a family friend, Roberto that came for dinner with his wife,Amelia.
During the day I got to work with Pepe, the father at digging holes for a fence and got to see Bruna, the mother cooking. She agreed to sharing some of her recipes on the blog and if enough people are interested I will start posting one recipe a day.
In the evening after the wonderful dinner (with the wonderful cake) with the whole family and the two family friends, Roberto and Amelia we all gathered around the fireplace and learned how to make baskets from Pio with the branches that the three of us, Lindsey, me and Pio picked during the day from around the region. I'll have to continue on working on my basket in the following days.

Radu Burtescu - Romania, Constanta