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Salted Peanut And Chocolate Chip Cookies
Christmas Rituals And Salted Peanut, Chocolate Chip Cookies
Through time, some of my Christmas rituals have changed. New habits have replaced old rituals. When I was a child there was, above all, the great ritual of Christmas lunch and a series of minor but no less important rituals. Now that I'm married, I love to celebrate the evening of Christmas Eve when I host…
1 December 2020
Fave dei Morti Cookies
Fave dei Morti cookies for Halloween. Italian tradition
Fave dei Morti cookies are typical of All Saints' Day. And when I was little, I didn't like them. Cemeteries, family, and biscuits. What I did enjoy was the traditional cemetery tours and visits to relatives we never saw. The tradition of the annual visit to the loved ones’ graves is almost lost. When I was a child,…
28 October 2020
From Summer. A Peach Amaretti Cake and A Handful of Memories
From my summer. A Peach Amaretti Cake recipe
End of August. The end of summer is behind the corner. And before the season ends, I share a recipe for a "good by chance" peach and macaroon cake. Now I'm telling you the genesis of this cake. Happy times to remember. Of the summer of the year that I will not -no one of us- forget, I…
31 August 2020
Soft peach cake
Old Mills, Stone-Milled Flour And Easy Peach Cake Recipe
A like arké. When we talk about food and the processing needed to produce it, stone-ground flour is a real arké (from the old Greek ἀρχή: principle, origin). The technique of the stone mills is, in fact, one of the oldest methods in the transformation of wheat into flour. And today in the production of…
8 July 2020
Italian Frollini Cookies And My Food Rituals
Italian Frollini Cookies And My Food Rituals
In your own cookbook can't miss a honest and rustic cookies recipe for breakfast. Frollini cookies are a classic among Italian sweet recipes for breakfast or merenda. So take pen and paper, write down the recipe and put it in your home cookbook. From today it will have a new page and flavor. The one for frollini…
10 February 2020
Spelt Brioche Bread
Homemade Spelt Brioche Bread with Jam
Is there a recipe that was a challenge for you? What did you make, stubbornly and tenaciously, until it works out as you wanted? In my list of challenges, faced and won after so many attempts and so much patience, I put: mayonnaise, meringue and, recently, brioche bread. After several experiments, I am happy to share a…
2 February 2020
Certosino Cake Recipe: the Traditional Christmas Sweet of Bologna
Certosino cake: the traditional Christmas sweet of Bologna
Certosino, or Spiced Bread (Pan Speziale), is a typical sweet of the Bolognese Christmas tradition The recipe, of medieval origin, was reworked by the Carthusian (Certosini) monks of Bologna, from whom the cake takes its name and has passed down to us. It is incredible that the recipe I am still cooking dates back to 1300.…
14 December 2019
Santa Lucia cookies with Ovis Mollis shortcrust pastry
Santa Lucia cookies with Ovis Mollis shortcrust pastry
Santa Lucia cookies are among my favorites. I call these biscuits "of Santa Lucia" because they are the ones we made at home to celebrate the feast. Sometimes the kind of biscuit was different. But the tradition of Santa Lucia biscuits, where I was born and raised, calls for shortcrust pastry. The tradition of Saint Lucia. The celebration of…
12 December 2019
Castagnaccio Cake, a Typical Autumn Recipe
When air becomes cold, leaves leave the branches to dress the naked ground and chestnut burrs change their colors from green to orange, I know is arrived the season of the new chestnut flour (and also to make castagnaccio cake). Do you like chestnut flour? It is a naturally sweet and gluten-free flour, perfect for many sweet…
2 November 2019
Buckwheat pumpkin cake with almonds. A simple pantry cake
Buckwheat pumpkin cake with almonds. An Italian simple pantry cake
How do you like your cakes? The answer also depends on the occasion but, usually, absurdly sumptuous cakes for parties or simple cakes. I prefer simple cakes with a short list of ingredients and recipes I can make using a couple of bowls and essential kitchen tools. In other words, my favorite cakes are those, in Italy,…
19 October 2019

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