There is lunch and there is dinner. There are many recipes that can be made indifferently for your midday meal or for your evening meal, they have a wild independent spirit, they suit your family needs and moods, they are welcomed anytime. Then, there is a bunch of recipes that are specifically tailored to suit [...]

Posted in Family recipes, Winter 8 Comments »

Lately I have often lunch with Grandma, we live so close that we enjoy the time we spend together eating and talking. If I have to work on some recipes for the blog I bring downstairs the last experiment, often cold after the photos. She warms up the food, always on the lowest flame, because [...]

Posted in Main Course, Quick Recipes 11 Comments »

  Pasta Del Verde asked us which is our secret in the kitchen. I’ve been wondering about that for a while, too, especially in these days when I am moving all my belongings into my new kitchen, organizing the shelves, the jars of flour with hand written labels, the boxes of pasta, honey and sugars [...]

Posted in Pasta, Tuscan Recipes, Winter 11 Comments »

I’ve done many different jobs before finding my place in the universe teaching cooking classes and writing recipes… I gave private lessons of Latin and Greek, I was an entertainer at children’s parties, an employee dealing with marketing and communications, an event organizer and even an interviewer at trade shows. Once I was even hired with [...]

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What did you get from the Log? My granddad Remigio would ask me on every Christmas morning. Here, in the hills between Siena and Florence, we never had a visit from Saint Lucia or Saint Nicholas, Father Christmas never brought the presents nor Baby Jesus did. It was me who put the little baby statuette on [...]

Posted in Side Dishes, Winter 9 Comments »