Il ragù della domenica (Sunday slow cooked meat & tomato sauce)
“It is impossible not to love someone who makes toast for you.” ~ Nigel Slater I just finished reading “Toast” by Nigel Slater. I am wiping off my tears from the last page, as I sit in my kitchen,...
View ArticleSimplicity – and a bowl of “fave e cicoria” (dried fava beans and bitter greens)
There comes a point in your life in which you need to pause and look at the road map that is in front of you. You mark your mileage and look in the rear mirror to the road you have driven so far. And...
View ArticleRebirth (and an Easter salame-egg-pepper bread: “Casatiello”)
Let every man and woman count himself immortal. Let him catch the revelation of Jesus in his resurrection. Let him say not merely, “Christ is risen,” but “I shall rise.” ~Phillips Brooks Easter is...
View ArticleFinding random things in the kitchen, and a hazelnut cake (torta di nocciole)...
It’s somewhere around 5:00pm and am wrapping up the day around the house: work deadlines, kids’ homework and piano practice, laundry, mail… you know the routine. And there is dinner to be made. Most...
View ArticleA lighter caponata (“al forno”: roasted)
Summer is here. I like to eat more vegetables and stay lighter. I am sure many of you feel the same way… It’s a time to lighten our burdens, be they physical, mental, geographic (via travel), or...
View ArticleZucchini & fiori di zucca
Estate (summer) = fresh vegetables and herbs from the garden. Zucchini (or as the Brits call them, courgettes) are one of the most prolific ones (you would know if you have planted some)! And they are...
View ArticleTorta fredda allo yogurt (cold yogurt cake)
Have you noticed how HOT it is? Will we finally acknowledge that global warming is an actual fact rather than a theory? Who has the desire to go in the kitchen and turn on the oven? Not me! Does that...
View ArticlePere “ubriache” (“drunken” pears), with zabaglione custard
The summer traveled by fast; then fall came…and went, and it is winter outside already. So the thermometer says, and my mood. The daily occupations constantly refilling my cup, without room for a...
View Article3 little ancient sweet “dolci” for the holidays
Under my tree, this year, all I am asking is for “time”. Time to spend with my little guys, and my big guy. There is nothing more precious. I need no-thing, no boxes, no parcels, no wrappings, and no...
View ArticleMy “fluffy” Tiramisu’– espresso trifle
Happy Monday everyone (so fun to be writing from my cell phone again..). This weekend i helped celebrate a friend’s 40th surprise birthday. I was asked to make dessert…something for an Italian themed...
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