I still remember the first time I tasted this dish. How to forget that moment? I was in bed, ill, I was suffering from mumps and it was just 2 days after my final examination at elementary school.
We were momentarily living with Grandma Menna, since there were restoration works in our house.
I was in dad’s [...]

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September, grape harves time. Now we don’t have a vineyard, just a little plot of land with some olive trees and a piece of vegetable garden. But several years ago, when my family was made up by farm labourers, it was different: there were many olive trees, a well provided vegetable garden, cows to work [...]

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If Grandma were a dish, she would have been home made pasta, ravioli, actually!
Since I was young, Grandma used to make home made fresh pasta on holidays , she closed herself in her kitchen and she came out soon later with a wooden plate, lined with paper, dusted with semolina and full of spinach ravioli [...]

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I have two Tuscan recipes waiting to be published: they were supposed to be publishd in August, but in between holidays, Scotland and sun I totally forgot to post them here! So, it’s time to face the first one!
Omelette! What a great invention! All you need is eggs – better if farmer eggs – and [...]

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If you come to Tuscany, whenever you want, wherever you go, from a city to a little village, you’ll find those typical sweets: Ricciarelli, Panforte and Cantuccini. If Ricciarelli and Panforte are related most of all to Christmas holidays, Cantuccini are a real must, you can eat them in any period of the year as [...]

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