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Cous Cous with Green Beans and Cherries
Please, please tell me the first thing that came to your mind when you read the title! Yummy... Yuck... Interesting... Curious...I didn't give myself lots of time for thinking. I'm a curious cat and I...
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Little Honey Cakes
"Momy, you won't be too sad if we leave you alone?... it's only for two days!"Excitement for her first travel by train was even stronger than her momy-attachment. And they left me alone... for two...
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Cherry Clafoutis
If you have ever made a clafoutis before, you'll be totally surprised with this recipe. So was I. I've tried the classical one and I wasn't really thrilled with the taste. But since I discovered this...
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Pane di Genzano
Genzano is a town some 20 minutes by car from Rome within the regional park Castelli Romani.It's famous for the Infiorata feast for the celebration of Corpus Christi - a long flower carpet that is made...
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Vanilla Ice Cream
I ended the last week with a recipe for bread hoping that would bring some good vibration to my oven. But the poor thing is still out of use, and I'm still waiting for the guy to replace the missing...
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Bruschette with Stracchino Cheese and Cherries
Another unusual, for me, recipe with cherries in savoury combination, on a bruschette, with cheese. And once more I couldn't be more positively surprised with how good it tasted. But after the Cous...
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No bake chocolate and fruit tartelettes
No oven or too hot turn it on? but you don't won't to say "goodbye" to a delicious dessert? That was my case the other day. When I start craving something I must have it. And that's how I got the idea...
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Saffron Macarons
I don't think I've ever suffered so much on a vacation. There are moments when I think the really short walk from the hotel to the beach is impossibly long. And most of the time I feel like a fish out...
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Pizza and focaccia with sourdough starter
The story goes simply like this. Once I though my sourdough starter was ready to be used, the recipe for pizza dough I saw on the wonderful Profumo di lievito blog had to be put to test. And the first...
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Watermelon granita
I don't know if you are hating this heat as much as I am or you are happy with it like my husband. All I know I'm sick tired of sweating all day and night (even with the airconditioning on), not being...
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Tuscan "Scarpaccia"
Days are passing pretty slowly waiting for the baby to decide to come out. And even though it's hot, and I should be spending days resting my swollen feet, I just can't sit still. Particularly because...
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Torta Monferina with pumpkin and amaretti cookies
Long time no see, huh? You're right!I've been absent for so long from my blog, that most people might have forgotten me? But you also know I've had a good reason for this hiatus.My little man was born...
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Chickpeas flour focaccia with rosemary and garlic
I wake up at night at the very first squeeking sound coming from the baby's cot. Without even turning the light on, I take him in my arms and while he's peacefully suckling his milk in an almost...
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Cookies with chocolate dulce de leche
There are times when I try hard to recreate some storebought cookies and they just don't turn right. And there are times when I start out to make something completely different from what I get in the...
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Speculoos spread
"An optimist is something that doesn't exist, isn't it true, mommy?"My little daughter is trying to connect the world of fantasy, fairy tales and video games to the real one. Everything she's never...
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Merry Christmas!
It's Christmas Eve and children are anxious to find out whether they really deserved the presents they asked for in the letter they wrote to Santa Claus ^__^I know I'm not getting my new oven, at...
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Panettone to wish you all a Happy New Year
For years I avoided Panettone and preferred Pandoro. The reason was fairly simple, I don't like raisins and I don't like candied citrus peels, either. And Panettone, the sweet Christmas bread...
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Rice, Millet and White Chocolate Cookies
Hopefully, you won't get bored with me for posting five sweet recipes in a row, and especially now after holidays. But I also hope you didn't eat too much and that you can squeeze in a little healthier...
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A cup od real hot chocolate
I was going to be a good girl today.I wasn't going to write another sweet recipe.I wasn't even going to prepare any sweets for at least a week (fingers crossed).I was going to share a recipe for a...
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Chicken and Ricotta Meatloaf
I started writing this post the other day saying what a relief it was to see some sunshine after weeks of fog, mist, rain and clouds. The sky was actually so blue that day that it almost felt like...
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