The typical dishes we offer are made of ingredients produced on our farm. They have the flavour and taste of real home-made cooking of to the old Tuscan tradition. They are all extremely simple, focusing on typical fragrances. The same can be said for our special diets.
Back home you will certainly remember your vacation at “Nature and Health” and you will long for Mamma Emilia’s carefully prepared dishes you enjoyed in our dining-room or portico.
Why don’t you have a look at what we might prepare for you, while we are waiting here for you to come and check!!

Hors-d’oeuvre – First Dishes – Main Dishes – Desserts – Pies – Wines
 
 
 
 
 

HORS-D’OEUVRE:

--  SALAME (spiced pork sausage) AND HAM of pigs fed on acorn in the woods of our farm
- DONZELLE, fried pastry
- STUZZICHINI DI PECORINO SENESE E OLIVE:
appetizers with Sienese Pecorino (sheep cheese) and olives
- CROSTINI TOSCANI CON FEGATINI:
toasted bread with liver, a most typical Tuscan antipasto (hors-d’oeuvre)
- CROSTINI CON FUNGHI: toasted bread with mushrooms
- CROSTINI CON SALSICCIA. toasted bread with sausage
 - INVOLTINI AL FORMAGGIO: cheese rolls
- UOVA RIPIENE: stuffed eggs
- BRUSCHETTE AL POMODORO E ORIGANO: bruschetta with tomato and origano
- BRUSCHETTE CON OLIO DI VAGLI: bruschetta with our own olive oil

FIRST DISHES:

- GNOCCHI DI PATATE E TAGLIATELLE: home-made potato gnocchi and tagliatelle with different dressings: meat, mushroom or tomato sauce or a spicy tomato sauce called “all’arrabbiata”
- PAPPARDELLE CON CINGHIALE: large pasta with wild boar sauce (wild boars live in the surrounding woods)
- PAPPARDELLE CON LEPRE: large pasta with hare sauce
- RAVIOLI CON POMODORO FRESCO: stuffed pasta with fresh tomato sauce (tomatoes from our garden) or with a butter and sage dressing
- TORTELLI DI PATATE CON RAGU DI CARNE: stuffed pasta made of potatoes with meat sauce
- ZUPPA DI PANE CON VERDURE called also RIBOLLITA: thick soup with bread and vegetables
- INVOLTINI CON ASPARAGI: rolls stuffed with asparagus
- LASAGNE AL FORNO: pasta with meat sauce cooked in the oven
- LASAGNE AL FORNO CON FUNGHI: pasta with mushroom sauce cooked in the oven
- ZUPPA DI FARRO: thick spelt soup
- ZUPPA DI FAGIOLI: thick bean soop
- MINESTRONE DI VERDURE: vegetable soup
- PANZANELLA: bread as salad with vegetables, a typical Tuscan summer dish
 

MAIN DISHES:

- CONIGLIO ALLA VERNACCIA: rabbit cooked in Vernaccia (white wine)
- POLLO RUSPANTE E PATATE ARROSTO: chicken bred on our farm with roast potatoes
- FETTINE DI MAGRO ARROSTO CON ROSMARINO: slices of roast meat with rosemary
- PICCIONE ARROSTO: roast pigeon
- POLLO ALLA CACCIATORA: chicken with tomato sauce
- FARAONA ARROSTO: roast guinea hen
- FETTINE ALLA VERNACCIA: slices of meat with Vernaccia (white wine) sauce
- LEPRE IN SALMI: hare in wine sauce
- CINGHIALE IN UMIDO: wild boar with tomato sauce
- CARNE COTTA SULLA BRACE: grilled meat. From the grill also:
SALSICCE, BISTECCHE DI VITELLO, BISTECCHE DI MAIALE, ROSTINCIANA:
Sausages, veal and pork steaks, spare ribs
 

DESSERTS:

- SPIEDINI DI FRUTTA AL CARTOCCIO: fruit sticks cooked in foil
- CROSTATA CON MARMELLATA: pies with our own fruit jams
- PINOLATA: pie made of pine nuts
- SEMIFREDDO: cold cream with our own hazelnuts
- TORTA CON PANNA E PESCHE: tart with cream and peaches
- VIN SANTO E CANTUCCINI: Vin Santo (our special dessert wine) and biscuits with our nuts and hazelnuts
 

FOCCACCE AND PIZZA cooked in the traditional wood oven:

- SCHIACCIATA AL ROSMARINO: flat salted pie with rosemary
- SCHIACCIATA ALL’OLIO: flat salted pie with olive oil
- SCHIACCIATA CON POMODORO A FETTE: flat salted pie with sliced tomatoes
- SCHIACCIATA CON CICCIOLI DI MAIALE: flat salted pie with small spiced bits of pork
- SCHIACCIATA CON CIPOLLE: flat salted pie with onions
- SCHIACCIATA DOLCE: flat sweet pie
- PIZZE VARIE: different varieties of pizzas
 

WINES:

At the Fattoria di Vagli you will taste our own wines, a red wine called Rosso di San Jacopino and a white wine called Vernaccia di Vagli.
The characteristic Vernaccia vineyards of the San Gimignano area with their vigorous vines make a dry and slightly bitter white wine.
The origin of the Vernaccia vine is not certain, but it has certainly found ideal conditions in our area.
The Vernaccia wine has been part of the history of San Gimignano for centuries. It has been popular on the tables of the rich since and was for the first time mentioned in a document of the year 1276. It has become famous because of its characteristic straw-like colour and particular perfume.
Our excellent red wine is called Rosso di Santo Jacopino; it is made of San Giovese, Canaiolo and black Malvasia raisins. Its colour is intense red and its perfume full. It goes particularly well with soups and roast meat.
Ideal to go with our desserts is the white wine called „Vin Santo del Beato Bartolo“, (“holy wine called the wine of Blessed Bartolo“), which we produce on our farm. With its particular perfume, this wine can also be served alone, but the traditional way is together with cantuccini, a home-made Tuscan cookie.