BBQ Italian style

Daniele comes home about 6pm and has organised time off work so he can spend sometime with us to cook and show us some more sites in and around Roma.
Tonight is BBQ and beer night Italian style ( insert 2 smiley faces  ) and on such a hot night that beer goes down real easy... too dam easy.

We move all the contents off the 2 x 2.6m balcony into the lounge room, the balcony is facing the hot afternoon sun and by day is the drying area and storage for the recycle. I open the heavy canvas blinds at 8 pm now that the hot sun has set behind the other buildings and thankfully a coolish breeze start to infiltrate into the enclosed balcony. We set up a small plastic table and get the kitchen chairs, off to the side of the balcony and on top of the plastic outdoor storage cabinets Daniele sets up his electric grill style BBQ. It's not long before the smell of the Italian sausages and the marinated pork are making our mouths salivate, Daniele puts on some Italian lounge music to top off the atmosphere and we are transported into our own little Italian trattoria.

Earlier we marinated some pork loins in some dried herbs with wine and oil.
1 cup red wine
1/4 cup olive oil
1 teaspoon garlic powder
1 teaspoon thyme
1 teaspoon fennel
1/2 teaspoon black pepper
8 cloves
1/2 teaspoon grated nutmeg
Stir together pot in the meat seat aside covered for 2 hours.

After dinner we finish with some grappa ..... But this one I liked !! Gabrielle picked it up in the mountains far north east of Roma just under the Austrian boarded for his dad when he was there earlier this month trekking.
Well with grappa ... out comes the record collection and it's not long before we are entertained by 2 high on life Italians doing some funky disco moves and singing the song of "Roma The Great" Daniele football team, LOVES his footy even more than Dannie Craine loves Parramatta... Are you out there Dannie you know who you are!!!