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Panone: the Christmas cake of Bologna
Panone recipe: the Christmas cake of Bologna
Panone and Certosino are the typically baked cakes of the Bologna Christmas tradition. Similar yet different. Both recipes belong to the typical Northern European tradition of Christmas cakes made with dried and candied fruit. Again, both have a rich and somewhat old-fashioned taste but, unlike what you might imagine, also a contemporary flavor. In these recipes, you won't find any…
5 December 2021
St. Martin's cookies
Saint Martin’s cookies and the Cuckolds fair tradition
St. Martin is a saint that I have liked ever since I was a child. He only reminds me of good things like the warmth of summer in the middle of autumn, the smell of new wine, hot chestnuts, and St Martin's cookies. Saint Martin's summer The celebration of the saint is on 11 November. In Italy,…
11 November 2021
Sweet Mistocchine: a traditional Bolognese recipe
Sweet mistocchine: a traditional Bolognese recipe
It is an old peasant recipe and one of the first street foods in Bolognese gastronomic history. They look a bit like Tuscan necci. And on the other hand, the chestnut trees are widespread throughout the Tuscan-Emilian-Romagna Apennines. It has created similar eating habits between Bologna, the lower and Apennine regions of Romagna, and the Tuscan…
1 November 2021
Lemon biscuits recipe
Lemon biscuits. A home cook and food writer
I am a home cook who writes about food. And as with this lemon cookies recipe, I share flavors that have the simplicity and richness of the best food I have ever tasted. The home food. Writing about food. What food? I have tasted the deliciously perfect food of some starred chefs and the satisfyingly ready-made food…
6 October 2021
Ciambella of Imola recipe
Traditional Ciambella of Imola recipe for an Italian breakfast
On google Italy find more than eleven million recipes dedicated to the doughnut. In Italy, the word ciambella (donut) indicates a breakfast or merenda cake that is a classic homemade preparation. High, low, soft, fragrant. But never fried. Traditional ciambella of Imola is a genuine flavor that is also a trip through memories. Ciambella: under the same name,…
9 July 2021
St. Joseph’s Cookies With Vanilla Pastry Cream
St. Joseph’s Cookies With Vanilla Pastry Cream
Their half-moon shape reminds of fresh pasta ravioli, but raviole, at the female, are dry biscuits typical of Bologna. Today, instead of the traditional ones, filled with mostarda Bolognese, I preferred St. Joseph's cookies with pastry cream. St. Joseph’s cookies. On the blog, also find  the more traditional recipe for raviole , the biscuits made on the…
12 March 2021
Apple Upside Down Cake
Apple Upside Down Cake Without Oil Or Butter
The apple cake is one of the most popular homemade desserts in Italy. Likewise appreciated are tarts and ciambelle. At my home, ciambella was also very popular. When I was a child, Grandma baked almost every day something I ate for breakfast and merenda. What I'm going to share is the recipe for a…
26 February 2021
Sweet Tagliatelle, Typical Carnival Fried Treat
Sweet Tagliatelle Recipe, Typical Carnival Fried Treat
Sweet tagliatelle is a typical recipe of the Carnival season. When in Italy, fried things and frittelle are the stars of the kitchen. Maybe for that reason, grandma Sara wrote the procedure under the name of little fritters instead of tagliatelle. And that little typo makes them even more dear to me (the correct way to write…
13 February 2021
Zuccherini cookies
Zuccherini cookies: a recipe of the Aemilian Apennines
When you are used to a certain kind of cookie since you are a child, you don't think about their origin. You only eat it. But that is what happened with  zuccherini montanari , sugary dry cookies, old-fashioned scented with aniseeds. A recipe from the Tuscan-Aemilian Apennines. The zuccherini cookies tell the story of an…
29 January 2021
Apple bread cake recipe
Apple bread cake recipe and two years of blog
Christmas is just a few days away, and I am at my desk with a cup of coffee about to write a recipe for one of my childhood apple bread cakes. This bread cake is rich in taste and ingredients like apples, walnuts, almonds, and spices. It will be the last post of the year, after two…
22 December 2020

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