Lost Quinoa

6 maggio 2009

This is the second time I cooked quinoa. The first one was a lost quinoa, because I haven’t had the chance to taste it, since my hungry parents and sister gobbled everything up before I came back home!

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My office lunch

4 maggio 2009

This is my today’s lunch in the office. My mum makes my pocket lunch every evening but yesterday I was feeling like having some sesame chicken and so I made my lunch myself, using the nicest tupperwares I had (pink, obviously!).
We have a microwave in the office, so at 1 o’ clock, after a rapid jump into the magic oven, my lunch is steaming and delicious as just made!

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Wholemeal flour muffins with sun-dried tomato paste

30 aprile 2009

They are very good, fragrant and with a lovely dried tomato flavour.They are best eaten the next day, cut in a half and spread with goat’s milk cheese and olives, philadelphia and chive, grilled eggplants and mozzarella… everything that softens the muffin, that becomes a kind of sandwich!

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Pudim al caffè

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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Maya’s Extra dark plum cake

23 aprile 2009

This is my wildest dream: eat as much as you want, scrumptious things, and be fit and thin as Gwynet Paltrow!

It is a dark plum cake, you can smell the chocolate as soon as you slice it. It’s a good comfort food, but light and easy to make. It is a perfect cake for the tea time. It is the extra dark plum cake found on Maya’s blog, Maya – L’Ape felice.

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