In my family there are few strict rules that should be respected as law: don’t oversleep in the morning; during dinner, no cartoons! News channel or chat among us; cook beans with sage, chickpeas with rosemary. If you ask mum why beans & sage and chickpeas & rosemary, she will tell you it’s always been so! Granddad [...]

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I’ve already told you everything about my Scottish holidays, but it was time to show you a real Scottish recipe. It is a real Scottish dish, as written Scottish Cookery by Margaret Fairlie. Just a note. When you buy shortbread cookies in airport they’re sold into rectangular boxes with castles and tartan on it and they [...]

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Yesterday was my first day at the gym. After a visit with a dietitian, a nutritionist, an endocrinologist and a psychiatric (it was all included) to understand why it was so hard to loose wight for me, the answer was only one: movement, movement, movement. I eat in a very healthy way, varying my diet, taking proteins, carbohydrates,  vitamins and [...]

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