Cooking

The Yellow House offers the opportunity of hands-on experience in natural cooking and the possibility of creating traditional dishes together and menus based on knowledge of the energy characteristics of foods, and harmonisation of flavours, colours and nutritional value.

In our large kitchen, small groups can achieve a stimulating new relationship with food.
We harvest vegetables in season from the garden and develop the art of cooking together,
in the splendid setting of the surrounding hills and woods.

  Cooking lessons                                            with Paola Turchi, cook and founder of the Yellow House

• Traditional Italian dishes: home-made pasta, tagliatelle, ravioli, gnocchi and lasagne with different regional sauces
• Vegetarian and macrobiotic dishes: plant proteins, home-made desserts without refined sugar
• Food and health: Yin and Yang energy principles, preparation of delicious, healthy, complete dishes
• Course in natural patisserie
• Tasting of local foods and wines and our own specialities

The secrets of home-made pasta

The Italian tradition of pasta is a heritage worth rediscovering and appreciating.
Creativity is expressed in the many forms and recipes, from the choice of different types of flour,
to pasta shapes and fillings, first courses in which taste triumphs due to the unmistakeable
consistency and unique flavour of hand-made pasta.

- potato and pumpkin gnocchi

- egg pasta and pasta coloured with herbs

- pasta with different fillings

Weekends for groups (minimum 8, maximum 14 persons),

including:

2 nights accommodation with breakfast

2 cooking lessons (Saturday and Sunday 10am)

2 lunches

Price per person:

€185 with single room – €172 double - €160 triple - €150 four-bed room

date: 7-9 May

Yin-yang energy cooking

Preparation of healthy, delicious and balanced meals depends on knowledge of the different energy characteristics of foods, how to combine them to create harmony between flavours, colours and nutritional value.  Yin and Yang, expansion and contraction, cold and heat, summer and winter,
are two energy poles that alternate in nature. 
The key is energy in the seasonal growth of plants and in the way
to cook foods and combine them.

How to prepare a delicious, healthy and complete meal

Cereals, plant proteins, ways of preparing and cooking vegetables, desserts without sugar

Weekend for groups as above

date: 16-18 April

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Art                    with Clelia Busillo, artist and sculptress

The beautiful natural setting is fertile ground for creativity. The Yellow House is a gallery of Clelia’s pictures, sculptures and furnishings. Her workshop is open to visitors.

Guests can combine their stay with creative activities using clay and colours, individually or in small groups. Many interesting discoveries await beginners and non beginners alike …

Art Course

Stage

Clay: pottery and figurative art For individuals or small groups (with discount)

Cosa comprende:
5 lessons (10 hours including materials, 4-6pm
       6 days accommodation with breakfast from Monday to Sunday

€ 200 + board (depending on type of room and meals taken)

Dates: 1-7 May / 1-6 June

Event: Firing of Raku pottery

In Japanese, raku means enjoy the day, from Rikyu, a 16th century master of the tea ceremony.

The ceremony is linked to Zen philosophy and the influence of Buddhism on Japanese culture.
In the firing of raku pottery, the incandescent pots are removed from the kiln with long tongs,
dipped in water and left to cool in the air.
It is an outdoor ceremony of earth, water, air and fire.

May - June - September - October

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Natural therapies          
                                     
with Paola Turchi, Shiatsu physiotherapist

Shiatsu is way to wellbeing and awareness, based on a holistic approach to the person. Having a massage is a gift to ourselves, a way to relax and let go of tensions, as well as a moment in which we return to ourselves, our body and our inner life.

Do-In combined with Tai Chi is a way to wellbeing through self massage and movement.

Wellbeing and care of self

Individual SHIATSU MASSAGE

Lesson in Do-In self massage and Tai Chi

 Weekend of wellness including:

2 shiatsu massages and 2 lessons of Do-In and Tai Chi

2 nights accommodation and breakfast

Date: 14 - 16 May

EVENT: Spa day

A day at the hot springs: relaxation and wellbeing

Tuscany has many hot springs with different therapeutic properties in beautiful natural settings.

May – June – September – October - November

The proposal includes:

- weekend from Friday evening to Sunday morning with accommodation and half-pension;
- Saturday at the hot springs including minibus transport.

First date: 28-30 May

 

Nature and Culture

Landscape and art ...

Too beautiful to be true! the Siena hills with their gentle forms,
colours, scattered farmhouses, nature and ancient, almost forgotten atmosphere.

For groups: minimum 6 persons

Weekend: 2 outings

Week: 6 outings

Including : minibus transport

                      guided visits to Siena museums

                      guided naturalistic excursions

                      accommodation

Itineraries:

- guided visit of Siena museums: May - June

- visit to the Abbey of San Galgano: May - June

- Nature Train: train trip in the spectacular Siena clay hills: May - June – September

- Montagnola senese: guided visit of the country parishes: May - June - September

- Farma River: July – August

- Merse River and cloister of Torri:  July – August