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…
Don't tell me it is too early to start thinking about Christmas. Sometimes, in order not to get caught up in the anxiety and thus spoil the festive atmosphere, a bit of organisation and bland planning are the only way to enjoy those days before Christmas, which otherwise always pass…
How do you learn to cook? How do you approach a new cuisine? Usually there is a number of basic ingredients that keep coming back in the recipes you’re going to make. Have them at hand, know how to use them, when and in which proportions, learn to combine them…
I came back home, after an hour spent at the local swimming pool, wearing just a light jacket, with slightly wet hair and bare ankles. In the parking lot, you could hear the crickets singing, and you could see the stars peeping through the pine trees. I had on my…
Autumn is the season when I finally get the hang of my life again, when I understand something of the chaos that the good season has left behind. After a tousled summer, I'm patiently collecting what I had lost on the way. I started baking again with my sourdough. Sooner…