Trading alla Siciliana

This time i want to talk about one of those surf trip that you decide to take even if your budget doesn’t even allow you to think about traveling.

Sometimes the will of surfing is so strong that you don’t think about the consequences of being far from home without money in your pocket. That’s what me and Giacomo did in august 2007 when we decided to go back to our beloved Basque Country to spend ten wild days before reach our girlfriends in two different locations.

As usual we packed our car with so much stuff that it seemed like we robbed a Wal-Mart warehouse…stuff pretty much useless if you have to spend only ten days

surfing.

Anyway that’s why we insist so much with the Basque Country

It’s still a 16-hours drive but definitely worth it and i think that this picture doesn’t need comments.

After the all day spent in the water we would have sold our bodies

in order to have a place to sleep.

Only because we wasn’t ready for a huge step like this we decided to trade

a dinner for a bed…

Our host was a guy named Alan that seemed pretty interested in our

Pasta alla Siciliana and in case you will need to find a roof over your head you

could use this recipe

Pasta Alla Siciliana

Ingredients for 4 serves

500g maccaroni 500g eggplant chopped in cubes 500g tomatoes chopped in cubes 150g mozzarella chopped in cubes 4 basil leaves 1 garlic clove salt to taste olive oil

Preparation

bring a large pot of water to boil and add salt add sufficient olive oil in a large frying pan fry the eggplant cubes carefully turning each one untill they are nice and browned on both sides. drain the cubes on paper towels Add the pasta to the water and cook. heat 2tbs of olive oil in a large skillet and add garlic clove and remove it when it turn golden brown add tomatoes and salt to taste and let cook for 10 minutes with high flame till they almost melt in a sauce then add the eggplant drain well the pasta and add the sauce, 4 leaves of basil chopped and mozzarella cubes. mix everything well and taste the best Pasta alla siciliana you ever tasted. Hope you will enjoy this recipe because we really did that night! See you soon guys

I know it wont be easy to match every surf trip with a good recipe
but so far so good.

June 2007 southern Italy.
My friend Giacomo and me took all our boyscout-style stuff and left our city life behind
to take a few day break in the south af an Italian region named Campania.
There are plenty of surf spot on the italian west coast travelling from Rome pointing north.
Most of them are pretty crowded but if you compare them with a world-class spot they really seems deserts.
Anyway further south you go more chance you have to find a really “nobody in the water-spot”.

And that’s what we found, just me and him in a sunny day of june.

I’m sure that this isn’t the biggest wave you’ve ever seen but it was a long clean and hollow ride all for ourselves…we were like kids in a candy store.

But what you gonna eat for lunch if you’re in Italy in a hot summer and you’re planning to spend the afternoon paddling against stream and waves?

I’m about to introduce you the:

Fresella

Ingredients for 2 serves
1.kg tomatoes
fresella (italian crisp bread that can be replaced by a baked bagel)
2 small canned tuna can (80 g each)
10 green and black olives
olive oil 2 tbs
basil 4 leaves
oregano
salt to taste

Preparation
Chop the tomatoes and the basil and mix all the ingredients except the fresella in a bowl
dispose the mix on the “fresella” and taste it.
You can improve the recipe adding onions,anchovies or thin slices of mozzarella cheese.

Nothing fits best than a fresella if you don’t wand to drown during your afternoon session!

See you next time guys.