Tuscan Sausage & Beans in Rada

Tuscan Sausage with Cannellini Beans

One of our favorite hill towns in Tuscany was Rada. This little town had charm, great food, wonderful

Wine and Cheese for the Bikers

people, and 6,000 bike riders. As we entered the town we were assaulted with bikes everywhere we went. It turns out we stumbled upon a historical bike race and Rada was one of the stops along the race. Now the stop was not your conventional water stop - bikers were treated with wine, cheese and prosciutto! Try doing that in the us. The people in town were the friendliest of any town we visited. I visited a shop to ask if they carried balsamic vinegar and was treated to a lesson on the different grades of balsamic vinegar (that will be a totally separate blog). To top off the experience we ended our visit with lunch at an outdoor cafe, Dante Alighieri, Where I enjoyed a dish of Tuscan Sausage and cannellini beans. Tuscan sausage is very different from the Italian sausage we get in the US. It is a very mild pork sausage flavored with mace and coriander. It complimented the savory cannellini beans in a light tomato sauce. It was wonderful.