When a month ago I took the first breath of the evening fresh air and looked at my four weeks of holidays unwinding in front of my eyes, I suddenly felt a child again, full of projects and ideas scribbled down on sheets of notebook paper. The time expanded and I could not see the [...]

Posted in About me, Drinks, Summer, Travel 49 Comments »

Last week I made a guest post for Flipkey, a travel website whose blog features local secrets that travelers might not know about. I wrote about one of the most typical Tuscan fresh pasta, pici… do you want to have a look, or better, a taste? Go to Flipkey blog to discover other interesting and [...]

Posted in First course, Fresh Pasta, Tuscan Recipes 8 Comments »

And here we are, we’ve come to the last and sweet part of our menu, the dessert, the end of our midsummer night’s dinner. Thank you for following me till the very end, but remember that you still have time to organize a dinner with friends, summer is still long! I now leave London to [...]

Posted in Desserts, Quick Recipes, Summer 11 Comments »

Diana is one of the first international foodbloggers I got to know: every time we have worked together, being it a guest post or just chats over food themes, I was impressed with her kindness and the sunny character that shines through her words. Besides this, I love her attention to the local food movement [...]

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When I was a little girl and I was on holidays, those long summer holidays marked by a slow pace of read books and TV movies, lunch time was the moment I was expecting everyday, even at that time. I spent the mornings and the afternoons at home, or in the garden, or riding our country roads with my [...]

Posted in Quick Recipes, Side Dishes, Spring, Summer, Vegetarian Recipes 2 Comments »