One of the most appreciated locations on the Southern Coast of Sardinia, it’s Villasimius. The small town has a special place in the heart of the many tourists that every summer chose it as their holiday destination. The town center, with its cafés and restaurants, it’s the evening meeting place. After traditional food, pizzas and oriental cuisine, we wanted to try something different and original, in the fusion cuisine restaurant La Mora Bianca, next to the town center.

Before making our reservation for a table, we scrutinized the restaurant’s website, and we got curious about the tale of a young man abducted by a Nymph, who guides him through the discovery of the five senses. Ready to dive into this sensory experience, we get to the place, we walk down the corridor and we get catapulted into a hidden garden made from an internal “lolla”.

Plants and flowers add color to the garden, dominated by a centuries-old mulberry. Beneath its branches, customers enjoy their dinner at the tables. We take a seat “under the mulberry” as well, and we let ourselves be lulled by the relaxed, typical summer atmosphere. The options on the menu play a game of contrasts combining diverse flavors and textures: sea and land, sweet and salty, soft and crispy. Our trip into flavors begins with a monkfish roll, stuffed with red shrimp, a terrine of black olives on celeriac and pecorino cream.

Monkfish roll filled with red shrimp, black olive ground on celeriac and pecorino cream

Every week La Mora Bianca offers a special dish in its menu. We’ve tried a tuna tartare, with summery combinations: watermelon, lime and cardamom dressing.

Tuna tartare with watermelon, lime dressing and cardamom

The first courses speaks loudly about one of the chef goals: to enhance Sardinian products. We have fresh pasta from the tradition, seasoned or stuffed in different ways, as the culurgiones stuffed with prawns, hazelnuts and ricotta, topped with a delicate bisque and lemon zest.

Culurgiones filled with prawns, hazelnuts and ricotta with delicate bisque and lemon peel

On the contrary, in the dish “Cortecce” we still have the classical seasoning of the Campidanese pasta – tomato sauce, sausage and saffron – but what differs is the type of pasta, not the classical malloreddus, but – in fact – the handmade cortecce pasta.

“Cortecce” with fresh sausage, saffron and ovinfort

Are you familiar with the classical Sardinian roasted trattalia and the suckling pig on a spit? At La Mora Bianca we tried two completely different versions of them, which left us pleasantly surprised: a trattalia stuffed with tomato sauce and peas cream, accompanied by pecorino cheese flakes, and a pork belly in myrtle demi glace, crispy on the outside and tender on the inside, with buttered fondant potatoes.

“Trattali” (meat) with pecorino cheese flakes on tomato sauce

Another landfare second course we recommend is the smoked fassona. The tender texture of the meat and its smoky aftertaste are completed with the creaminess and delicate flavor of the leek sauce that accompanies the dish.

Clam of fassona smoked cold with variations of leek and its sauce

Even the combinations in seafood dishes are based on contrasts and textures. The octopus tentacles are our favorite. Near us someone is eating the same octopus but its serving is totally different and we understand that from La Mora Bianca every dish is unique, personalized for each table.

Tentacoli di polpo aromatizzati alla liquirizia su crema di ceci e contorno di carote saltate

As a dessert, our choice fell on the special version of the artisanal cocoa seadas stuffed with aranzada and ricotta.

Seadas artigianale al cacao ripiena di aranzada e ricotta

Adriano, Giulia, and Alessandro have invested in the creation of this fusion restaurant with passion, creativity, and constant and careful research of the product. A project born almost for fun a year ago and thanks to which today at dinner we were involved in an experience not only gastronomic but also visual with the beauty of the place, olfactory with the smells released by the aromatic herbs grown and collected in the garden, auditory and tactile. In short, a sensory experience in all respects.

Tensione a Erbil: drone colpisce l’area della base italiana, militari al sicuro nel bunker.

La terra dell’Iraq torna a tremare sotto il peso delle incursioni aeree, portando la minaccia fin dentro il perimetro della presenza internazionale a Erbil.

Ieri sera, un drone di fabbricazione Shahed ha impattato contro la base che ospita il contingente italiano, innescando ore di massima allerta per la sicurezza dei nostri connazionali impegnati nella regione.

La dinamica dell’incidente, tuttavia, suggerisce una traiettoria parzialmente erratica: secondo le prime ricostruzioni e quanto si apprende dalle fonti ufficiali, l’ordigno potrebbe non essere stato diretto originariamente all’interno della struttura, ma avrebbe perso quota accidentalmente finendo la sua corsa proprio contro un mezzo militare posizionato nell’area. Nonostante l’impatto, il bilancio è fortunatamente rassicurante in quanto non ci sono feriti tra i militari italiani, i quali sono rimasti incolumi grazie alla tempestiva attivazione delle procedure difensive.

Il ministro della Difesa Guido Crosetto ha voluto accertarsi personalmente della situazione avendo sentito direttamente il comandante della base, confermando che il personale sta bene e resta attualmente nel bunker per garantire la massima protezione in attesa di una completa stabilizzazione del quadro di sicurezza.

La notizia ha immediatamente attivato i vertici diplomatici e governativi a Roma, dove il ministro degli Esteri Antonio Tajani ha espresso la propria ferma condanna per l’episodio attraverso una nota ufficiale. Il titolare della Farnesina ha riferito di aver appena parlato con l’ambasciatore d’Italia in Iraq per monitorare l’evoluzione della vicenda, ribadendo che per fortuna i nostri militari sono tutti al sicuro.

Nel manifestare la propria vicinanza agli uomini e alle donne in divisa, Tajani ha voluto esprimere loro profonda solidarietà e gratitudine per il quotidiano servizio alla Patria svolto in un contesto operativo così complesso e delicato. Al momento, la situazione resta sotto stretto monitoraggio, mentre il contingente continua a osservare le rigorose misure di protezione previste dai protocolli internazionali per scongiurare ulteriori rischi derivanti da nuove possibili incursioni nell’area di Erbil.