Long pepper and red fruits olive oil cookies

Date aprile 15, 2010

To have a blog, what does this mean? It means to have the chance and the opportunity to meet special people and spend a beautiful day feeling like teenagers on a school trip. We were three, like the three musketeers, like the Three Graces … or rather, seeing what we were able [...]

Jamie Oliver’s oat and raisins cookies

Date gennaio 3, 2010

As regard me, it’s spring, I know, I know…. weather forecast has said tomorrow it will snow,the Twelfth Night as yet to come, our cupbord is still full of Christmas products, but, as regards me, it’s spring. I just want to let you know that this is the way I live my life! After the [...]

Christmas cookies, III episode

Date dicembre 11, 2009

I couldn’t make it: yesterday I had to show you a little teasing picture! I was so proud of the light, of my first stained glass cookies, of the wonderful sunny morning spent with my friend Simona and her sweetie daughter making biscuits and laughing. I’m not totally wrapped in Christmas spirit yet, so this [...]

Teasing

Date dicembre 10, 2009

Just to give an hint about tomorrow’s recipe!!

Grandma Menna’s Kitchen: cavallucci, typical Tuscan Christmas cookies

Date dicembre 9, 2009

In Italy the 8th of December is an holiday dedicated to Saint Mary, when usually we trim the tree and we start making Christmas cookies… as every year, the house is full of cinnamon, aniseed and vanilla smells! Tuscan cookies are not nice to see nor colourfull, cool or chic… they’re round, a bit flat [...]