marzo 4, 2010
Who does not like gifts and surprises? How not to mention when you receive an email, a text message, a packet full of surprises? It’s like reliving for a moment the magic of Christmas, or birthdays when you’re a child, when you can’t wait to unwrap the presents and see what lies beneath the colorful giftpaper.
So you can imagine my happiness when I discovered – through Mardi from Eat. Live. Travel. Write – the Foodie Exchange group, a group founded with the intention to merge foodies from all around the world, canceling out the distances, through the exchange of local products.
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marzo 2, 2010
It took me two weeks, but finally I can show you the Greek dessert I made for my Greek dinner with friends for Valentine’s Day. It was such a long time I wanted to make the rice pudding again, one of my favorite desserts, but I wanted a Greek dessert… I was wrongly convinced that the riz au lait was French until I found the very recipe into the Greek section of the book of Tessa Kiros’ Falling Cloudberries! Perfect I would say, uh?
And allow me a “I still remember when…” moment, I was such a small foodblogger… it has been over a year since I posted the recipe for the rice pudding, it was on February the 11th, and it was my eighth post and I was still taking measures to photos and how to write. Let me show you the recipe again, changing the proportion of ingredients and cooking times according to Tessa’s directions. The result is very exciting!
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febbraio 27, 2010
This was the first time I took part at the Daring Baking Challenge, and which recipe could be better than Tiramisu, one of the most popular and beloved Italian dessert?! We often make tiramisu at home, but buying ladyfingers and mascarpone cheese. Obviously, if you want a very good tiramisu, you must choose superior quality products.
Making tiramisu from scratch gives you the chance to have excellents ingredients: fresh, delicious… and should we talk about the pride of making ladyfingers and mascarpone all by yourself? Read the rest of this entry »
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febbraio 25, 2010
After a really bad day at work – they happen more and more often – I went home and I was so nervous… all that I wanted was cooking, and possibly using chocolate, remedy for all problems, serotonin maker, a good thing! So I decided to make a moment of pleasure and relax out of another bad moment, using a specific ingredient that, in itself, is a way to take care of themselves: the tea. Read the rest of this entry »
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febbraio 23, 2010
I have already told you that my big, noisy, lively and warm family comes – as regards my father branch – from Lucania, in the South of Italy: Grandpa Biagio, in fact, was born in Rapolla (PZ) and raised in Melfi, where still live many uncles, aunts and cousins. A branch of the family lives since many years here in the province of Siena, and I think I can adfirm, without doing an injustice to anyone, that Aunt Teresa is the most representative example of the cuisine from Melfi in Tuscany.
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