This will be another day to remember. I am cooking right now in my new little house a fish dinner for Christmas Eve together with Claudia for mum, dad and grandma. It is just another opportunity to create a new family tradition: we usually celebrate on the very Christmas day with aunts, uncles and cousins, [...]

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“Among the dishes required by tradition there are quite a fews that can be missed or replaced, as the stuffed capon with a roast turkey or the black and white crostini with butter and anchovies crostini, but what in a Christmas lunch in Siena can not be replaced in no way is the Panforte “. Giovanni Righi [...]

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Merry Christmas to all of you, special friends, thank you for stopping by on this very special day and all the other days, looking for recipes or just to chat a little bit, thank you, you are essential to me!

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My ghost of Christmas past would bring a Tom and Jerry sweatsuit, a big yellow bag which contained the gifts the whole family, a baked fillet of salmon and a spinach flan. If I had to identify in every Christmas past, flipping through my memories album, an element that is always present, that tastes of [...]

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They came home gift-wrapped as only Santa’s elves would be able to do: two kilos of intense Caffarel dark chocolate. They came home along with a shower of chocolate stars, wrapped in a shiny yellow and red paper. As you can see from my pictures, I was put in charge of the 20th of December in the Advent Calendar, a game [...]

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