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Duchess stracchino chilled dessert
Duchess stracchino: a chilled dessert from Emilia
Duchess stracchino is a chilled dessert from Emilia. It has a simple preparation, ingredients that, usually, everyone likes, and a frozen dessert texture. And although the name evokes stracchino, a soft cheese typical of northern Italy, this ingredient is not there. The origin and name of the dessert are uncertain. The origin of the dessert Folklore tells a…
30 May 2023
Torta Tenerina
Tenerina Cake: typical recipe from Emilia-Romagna
I arrange the ingredients on the table: fresh eggs from the countryside, dark chocolate, powdered sugar, flour, butter, and salt. That's all you need for Tenerina Cake. Some dishes make you travel into the past. And like Proust's Madeleine, they are tickets to a nostalgic tour aboard the Orient Express. The bar of dark chocolate I…
4 May 2023
Barozzi cake my way
Barozzi cake my way and its story since 1886
From my seat on the train, I watch the Emilian countryside flow gently under my eyes. It's a series of villages that seem to hold hands, grain fields, and fruits. As I approach the town of Vignola, I see only cherry trees for which the area is famous. I am about to tell a story of secret recipes…
31 March 2023
Nonna's special tiramisù recipe
The special tiramisù recipe of Nonna Sara
Nonna's special tiramisù is a recipe we had lost and recently found again. So many of her recipes brighten tables that are not our own. Nonna left few written recipes compared to her enormous repertoire. On the other hand, she shared them by letter with other women and as many as she received. Or she exchanged them with…
19 December 2022
Amaretti and chocolate cake
Amaretti and chocolate cake: a great Italian classic dessert
How many chocolate cake recipes are there? So many, and I would like to try them all. A chocolate cake and a book I love The recipe is from The Great Dixter Cookbook; Recipes from an English Garden. A book where cooking follows the seasons, using ingredients from the garden of Great Dixter, a historic garden home located…
16 November 2022
Italian Zuppa Inglese cake recipe
Zuppa Inglese cake, memories and nonna’s recipe
Zuppa Inglese cake (English Soup) was one of the spoon desserts that nonna made most often. It was one of the Sunday lunch desserts. It was such a simple recipe for her that never, not once, did she make it for Easter or Christmas. Good thing, since I wouldn't say I liked it. Besides the Vera Torta…
27 October 2022
Italian pumpkin pie recipe
Pumpkin pie recipe (from scratch): All Saints or Halloween?
For the first time, I made an American pumpkin pie to celebrate Halloween and All Saints' Day. In Italy, although Halloween related festivities are increasingly celebrated, the real holidays are All Saints Day (Festa di Ognissanti) on November 1 and All Souls Day (Giorno dei Morti) on November 2. Not an Italian pie but the American pumpkin…
17 October 2022
Torta gelato ricetta
Gelato cake (without ice cream maker)
Some dishes make you travel into the past, bringing back memories forgotten at the bottom of some memory drawer. Ice cream cake is a classic example of a nostalgic trip. If you read the post, you will understand why. When I thought of sharing the recipe for this simple homemade dessert that Grandma, especially in the…
5 July 2022
Torta di robiola
Robiola cake and the notebook with the black cover
Most of my grandma's recipes live on in our memory, like this robiola cake. Sometimes I feel sorry thinking about the ones we lost. But, more often, I am happy for those we have recovered patiently cooking until we have reconstructed the flavors we remembered. My nonna's recipes Nonna collected recipes as others do stamps. Her repertoire ranged from…
31 May 2022
Nougat semifreddo with chocolate drops
Nougat semifreddo with chocolate drops
With nougat semifreddo, there is an almost familial connection. Semifreddo and, in general, spoon desserts make me think of the lunches that never finished when the adults stayed at the table for hours. And if the occasion was official, even we children had to remain seated until we were expressly authorized to leave the table. Those were other…
4 April 2022

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