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Easter Pie with Asparagus and Ricotta
Every year I give a serious thought to making a traditional Easter Pie, Torta Pasqualina, original to Italian region Liguria, but then I give up. I know it's great, and I love all the ingredients, and...
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Candied orange cream with honey and vanilla
One of the reasons I've started loving blogging so much was sharing. Giving away... tips, secrets, recipes... And when I discover something so great and delicious like this cream, I treasure it dearly....
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Kamut Khorasan Flour Sourdough Bread
Believe it or not, it's become easier to come up with a new recipe, prepare it, style and photograph (I actually never spend too much time on that last part) than to put everything down and post on...
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Homemade Tagliatelle
The biggest magic in the kitchen happens when few good ingredients meet and walk hand in hand.A little flour and a couple eggs. You can't go simpler than that. And yet when you mix them in correct...
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Pasta with creamy broccoli sauce
If you are always looking for a nice, healthy and quick meal idea, you shouldn't miss this pasta recipe. It's deliciously creamy and really easy and quick to prepare. I bet you can trick your kids to...
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Chocolate chip cookies with spelt flour
I've noticed that almost every post about chocolate chip cookies starts with something like, "After a long search I've finally found the best chocolate chip cookie recipe". I don't know why these...
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Yoghurt-Roasted Chicken with Quinoa, Carrot and Fennel Slaw
Sometimes I think I prepare meat dishes only because that's the easiest way to get everybody satisfied at mealtime without thinking much and without spending hours in the kitchen.You throw a piece of...
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Cherry Sorbet
A hot day and the sight of first cherries reminded me of this sorbet recipe almost instatnly. I made it last year and never found time to share the recipe or maybe che cherry season was over too...
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Crescente al rosmarino (Mini Rosemary Buns)
Finally weekend and finally some rest. As every year the last week of school is so frenetic that it seems the most important one. Now I have three whole, long months to deal with three little monsters...
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Lemon Pastry Cream Tart with Lady Fingers Topping
I know it's not a good rule to try out new recipes on important occasions. But sometimes it's just the right occasion that pushes you to prepare that recipe you printed months and months ago and never...
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Leek, fava beans and asparagus quiche
I finally feel like I can breathe. After a week of African heat wave we are back to lower temperatures and I'm back to my oven.I think I used asparagus this year much more often than previous years....
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Eton Mess with Raspberries and Red Currants
For years, meringues were were my enemy. They were "that one thing" that I didn't know how to prepare and that I avoided. I tried many times. Oh, yes I did. And every time flat, dumb discs came out of...
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Brioche buns with egg whites
When summer arrives and I start making ice cream on weakly basis, I inevitably find myself with a huge quantity of egg whites. There's plenty of recipes out there to use them, and macarons and...
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Spring minestrone soup
So far the spring and early summer have been a bit strange. We had only one week of terrible African heat (unlike previous years, thanks God), that was almost immediately followed by moderately warm to...
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Gelato Fior di latte
A scoop on silky, milky, deliciously creamy gelato is the same kind of caress on a hot summer day, that a bowl of soup is on a chilly spring or summer evening with a storm rolling in.You get the same...
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Ferratelle / Cancelle / Pizzelle
Sometimes I think about how information can take strange ways of travelling.Like for example these simple but beautiful cookies traditional for Italian regions Abruzzo and Molise.You would think I...
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Chocolate zucchini cake
It's time to leave for vacation and leave this little corner quiet.But before I do so, I wanted to share a slice of my birthday cake with everyone passing by.Dark, moist, chocolate cake, who would ever...
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Salmon burgers
I don't know if anyone missed me in this little corner of mine, but I sure did miss being here.Now that two out of three little (cutest in the world) monsters are back to school, I hope to find more...
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Ricotta Blueberry Squares
Growing up, like in many other families I suppose, there was that "Sunday cake" thing running. Even though my mother made sure we had some home made dessert every day, Sunday dessert had to be a little...
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Piadine Romagnole with sourdough starter
The origins of this flatbread, so similar to Mexican tortillas, is in Italian region Emilia Romagna. Back in the past it was the bread of the poor, peasants families. It used be served simply, to...
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