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Chocolate salami (without eggs)
Chocolate salami (without eggs). Nonna’s recipes
If a book about grandmothers served the purpose of not missing mine, I would look for it. I'm usually able to manage memories, but some days, it is hard to manage their B-sides. Yes, memories have two sides, like coins and old vinyl records. Side A makes memories a soft dough that will rise in the oven; it…
1 March 2024
A recipe for chocolate pralines called Cri Cri
A recipe for chocolate pralines called Cri Cri
Cri Cri are chocolate pralines of Piedmontese origin, and if you're wondering what they have to do with me recounting the cuisine of Emilia-Romagna, I'll tell you right now. On January 6 in Italy, we celebrate the Befana, which closes the festivities of the Christmas season. That day, I would wake up early while the house was…
4 January 2024
Layered Pandoro recipe
Layered pandoro star with mascarpone cream
The Christmas layered pandoro is a dish that takes me back to the 1980s and 1990s, when I was cheerful and carefree in that lighthearted way typical of youth. During the Christmas holidays, mascarpone was a widely used ingredient, often layered into pandoro. At some point, layered pandoro became one of the desserts served at Christmas lunch…
24 December 2023
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
Tenerina cake. A typical chocolate dessert from Emilia-Romagna
Tenerina cake. A typical chocolate dessert 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 take you back in time. 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

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