Chiara has been my pen pal in the last 17 years, we started writing long and passionate letters with sharp colourful drawing pens and a round teenager handwriting, now we exchange quick messages and e-mails, to play along with the family busy schedule. In seventeen years we exchanged a thousands of letters, e-mails and some photos, [...]

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Its name is schiacciata (flat bread), but it is anything but flat. It’s the typical Easter sweet bread of my areas, popular in most of the Tuscan region with slightly different names and small changes that could allow an expert eye to attribute undoubtedly the schiacciata to the Sienese area, the Elsa valley or the [...]

Posted in Baked Good, Desserts, Spring, Tuscan Recipes 19 Comments »

The fact is, I just can not stand my recorded voice. Everyone tells me that I have the very same voice as my mum, and actually they keep on mistaking us at the telephone, but I like mum’s voice, it’s sweet and it is the voice of my mum, how can I not like it! [...]

Posted in Family recipes, Fresh Pasta, Tuscan Recipes, Video recipe 16 Comments »