Archivi per la categoria ‘Books’

Clementine and Camomile Cupcakes

venerdì, 22 gennaio 2010

Since my cousin Marghe gave me this wonderful book Cupcakes, small luxuries for your palate, by Luxury Books, I can’t help! I keep on leafing through it, looking at it, admiring it, dreaming on its glossy pages, running my fingers over the vintage cover, gripping the book in my hands as it was a treasure!

Every recipe is so interesting, but there was recipe… it has been love at first sight: clementines! This year I’m really victim of a clementine addiction, I used them everywhere, from Jamie’s clementine curd to a salad with fennel, clementines and block olives…

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Lemon & Vanilla Marmalade

lunedì, 11 gennaio 2010

Here I am after a great weekend at the seaside with my friends in Liguria. Once more I’ve had the proof that simplicity is fundamental and amazing! Whatsoever context you are examinig, you only need a few ingredients to make the recipe work. Fists quality ingredients, a simple and essential recipe, a pinch of magic… and the result could really leave you without words! This is true for Saturday’s fish recipes, for our weekend spent in between food, laughs, pictures and friends… and  for this marmalade recipe, made just with sugar, lemons and vanilla.

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Directly from the 1978…

venerdì, 11 settembre 2009

Do you remember I had some leftover egg whites and I used them to make my ginger meringues? Perfect, I used the egg yolks to make a bavarese alla crema, but sincerely I don’t know how to translate in English… can you help me? Read the recipe and tell me if this pudding has a proper name in English, otherwise let me introduce you my bavarese!

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Pudim al caffè

martedì, 28 aprile 2009


Here you have a Portuguese pudim, from Tessa Kiros’s Piri piri starfish: Portugal found. A wonderful book, white and blue as Portuguese azulejos, with wonderful pictures, as in each and every Tessa Kiros’s book.

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