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!
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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… [...]

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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 [...]

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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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