A crust of bread and a glass of wine gathered around a Tuscan country table ten traveller friends in a mad spring day, enlightened by a warm sun and made vivacious by an unexpected downpour. The official excuse? An unusual flavour match. I just noticed it, within less than a week I stepped from celebrating the good aspects [...]

Posted in Appetizers, Quick Recipes 4 Comments »

The awareness came with the spring, after the London euphoria and the snow silent charm. I am doing for living what I wanted to do as a grown-up, I’m finally a full-time foodblogger. There is no glamour in this, or social events and sequins, I just get up and every morning I wear my home uniform (my [...]

Posted in Lunch box, Quick Recipes, Spring, Vegetarian Recipes 25 Comments »

More than a week has passed since I first came to London and in a few days I’ll be back in my mansard over my family kitchen overlooking the woods and fields, waiting for the wheat to turn pale green to announce that the spring has finally arrived. You may wonder what I have been [...]

Posted in Autumn, Quick Recipes, Spring, Summer, Winter 13 Comments »

Hello from London! Today I’m sitting in a cosy kitchen in London, the sky as you can easily imagine is leaden gray and it is also fairly cold. What am I doing here? let’s step back a few months… As soon as I knew that my contract wouldn’t have been renewed I bought a ticket (a return [...]

Posted in Soups, Vegetarian Recipes, Winter 16 Comments »

During those old times the vagabonds were still crossing the country, living by their wits to get once in a while a hot meal to give them strength during the long and frozen moonless nights. In those days a witty vagabond was wandering near to the village, spending lonely hours at the edge of the forest and [...]

Posted in Soups, Tuscan Recipes, Vegetarian Recipes, Winter 18 Comments »