From il Cantico della Natura to La Tavola Marche

Moving on for our next 4 nights to the food region of Marche which is about 100km to the northeast.
Our journey took us about 2 and 1/2 hours as most of the drive is through the Appenino Umbro Marchigiano mountains. It was a pretty drive on lots of small slow roads, as it was still in the high 30's the landscape is very brown after a long hot and dry summer.
Marche boarders Umbria to the left and goes down the Adriatic Ocean on the right.

Our drive took us past many hill top castles and towns ... just photo heaven.

 

Stoped for a bite of lunch at a cute little road side trattoria.

A trattoria is cheaper than a restaurant and is where you will fine lots of locals, just how we like it.

Rigatoni with a spicy meat sauce

As we are in the mountains I had the ravioli filed with ricotta and herbs with fresh Porcini ... scrum o, their is that special something about fresh Porcini

 

 

By mid afternoon we arrived into the cooking school of la Tavola Marche for our 3 day preserving, bottling, pickling and confit course.
As it is the end of summer and especially here in the mountains area where autumn is shorter the fresh garden product is at the stage where you have bulk and its time to do something with it to get the locals through a long and snowy winter.