Last week, this blog turned 11 years old. On the same day, February the 1st, we celebrated 1 year of our podcast, Cooking with an Italian Accent, and 3 years of Romula, the company that Tommaso and I created to officially work together, a commitment that anticipated our wedding, too!…
My grandmother has a sweet tooth, she has always room for dessert. When she was a child, before going to school, she would stop at a local mill, owned by the family of one of her friend, and they would pick a handful of dried chestnuts from the big sacks…
January feels like the longest month. Until a few years ago, it was dreadful. Those cold days would not pass, a sequence of frozen mornings and dark nights without the Christmas sparkle. It was like a tiring watch, waiting for Spring to bloom. Usually, around mid-February, at the first timid…
Reading the words that guided me through the last two years, I see a pattern. In 2018, I chose craft and seasonality. My plan was to hone my skills, working like an artisan, and have a seasonal approach to life, not just to cooking. I didn’t want to waste time,…
In just a couple of days, we bought the gifts that were missing and we simply decorated the house with my little seven year old juniper tree, a few baubles, stings of lights and a nativity scene. It's incredible how quickly a few lights and the smell of a juniper…
A few days to Christmas, to a new year, and it feels like everything happened suddenly, as I was not expecting the holidays, the celebrations, the frenzy of shops bustling with people, a menu to decide, ingredients to buy at the market and at the butcher. Have you ever been…
How are you? How are you living these days approaching Christmas? This year we have not made plans or programs, we will take things as they come, lightly, playing impromptu. Once in a while you need it, don't you think? We would like to give ourselves a few days of…
An ordinary evening, late autumn. Afternoons are rainy, Christmas lights still far away. The yellow leaves pile up on the ground under the trees, mingling with the relentless rain, a mushy carpet for busy steps. Evenings like these require a comforting savoury butternut squash pie: I want it ready, so…