Here are our favourite ways to spend a bountiful June in Abruzzo. Must visit Abruzzesi sagre and feste include the Raiano Cherry festival, Loreto Aprutino’s Festa di San Zopito and look out for how some local towns celebrate San Giovanni, see Barisciano below! Do look at our list of events that show participating museums that are free on the first Sunday of the month, useful even if you’re not on a budget! Most of all here’s what to expect and recipe suggestions for the delicious seasonal local foods that June delivers.
Abruzzo is famous for its nose to tail eating, but what about arboreal and plant-based fruit and leaf drinking - can we apply a similar rule, using a cherry tree for example?
For those that miss eating seafood antipasti on Abruzzo's Adriatic coast particularly on the Trabocchi coastline, we give you Pia's recipe for Cozze Balls (Mussel Balls), Fossacesia's easy-to-make alternative to stuffed mussels!
In true Abruzzese fashion where nose to tail eating is standard, even with garlic, these moreish garlic scrapes known as zolle have become highly prized delicacies & are delicious served in a rustic Sulmonese style picnic pie
Taking up the cookery challenge from Nonna next-door of my favourite summer dish, deep fried stuffed zucchini flowers
