Ribollita

Ribollita!

Ah, the memories of Florence and fresh insalata caprese and ribollita. I would have one or both every single day of my week-long visit to Florence, Italy a few years ago. Ribollita is a soup. The name means "reboiled" in Italian, and it is basically reheating minestrone soup from the previous day, amending it with with bread and cannellini beans. Darryl found this brilliant recipe from Giada De Laurentiis on the Food Network website. Here below is the link to this magnificent recipe. Follow the directions exactly as they are written and you will be rewarded with the most amazingly robust vegetable soup you will ever eat. It is very much like the ribollita from Tuscany. The only thing missing from our meal was that it was being served in Willsboro, New York not Florence, Italy. But we had a lovely salad, a nice red wine, and coffee and fresh fruit salad for dessert. And great company: Dana, Darryl and I shared this meal with Joyce & Bill and Bonnie from Westport. Joyce and Bonnie are fellow Master Gardener volunteers. The next time we'll pass on the movie (we got to the theater just in time for Burn After Reading...the reviews were mixed in our group) and show our Westport pals how to play Phase 10!

Buon appetito!

RIBOLLITA - http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/giada-de-laurentiis/ribollita-recipe/index.html