I am an easy to be persuaded woman, you just need a bunch of flowers and I’m sold. In this case the flowers were the pretty blossoms of my chives and the refined seducer a potato salad that has become in the course of a cloudy May morning my favourite potato salad, the same I [...]

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My favourite country road stretches from my house into the nearby wood, shaded by four oak trees and speckled along the edges with flowers and herbs. Until a few years ago what attracted my attention were the closed buds of poppy, which I would pick up to guess the colour, and purple and yellow delicate [...]

Posted in Italian Table Talk, Soups, Spring 10 Comments »

It was not supposed to ba a blogpost, it should not even be a studied photo. It was a careless day with friends: it was warm, variable, with the blinding sun of the first spring days. We looked with concern at the heavy clouds running in the sky, we deserved at least a sunny day. It was [...]

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I used to imagine my life as a single woman in my new house a little bit different. I would have chosen freely and sometime randomly my lunches and dinners, maybe one day guacamole and tortillas, the other day a green salad and grilled cheese with wholemeal bread or even a creamy risotto just for [...]

Posted in Breakfast / Brunch, Cakes 14 Comments »

Being a country girl, in my eyes Florence is a city, it is great and wonderful. The view from Piazzale Michelangelo takes my breath away in any season and at any time of the day. Every time I walk around the city centre I can not help but take a picture – real or mental [...]

Posted in Desserts, Italian Table Talk, Tuscan Recipes, Winter 7 Comments »