Strawberry and Blueberry Clafoutis, Gluten-Free Recipe

Claf-who? Clafoutis! Spring and delicious with fresh strawberry and blueberry. Fruit Dessert. Who loves them? I love all of them. Crumble, apple pie, apple strudel, Black Forest (preserved cherries are still fruit!). But now, please, give me your attention. I have a good new for those who are looking for to use seasonal, local fruit! Clafoutis is an easy-to-make French dessert…

ByMonica20 May 20200Comments

Breakfast and Merenda Cakes and Cookies COURSES OCCASIONS RECIPES

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…

ByMonica10 February 20200Comments

Breakfast and Merenda Cakes and Cookies COURSES OCCASIONS RECIPES

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…

ByMonica2 February 20200Comments

Cheese COURSES Desserts INGREDIENTS OCCASIONS RECIPES Sunday Lunch

Tiramisù Crostata and Why Ahead is my Word of the Year

The beginning of the new year is a good time for new intentions and goals. Usually, I let a few days pass between reflections on the old year and the purposes for the new one. I don't want to make emotional but lucid balances. I'm letting the suspended thoughts come down slowly like soft snowflakes.…

ByMonica19 January 20200Comments

Breakfast and Merenda Chocolate Drinks Gluten-free INGREDIENTS OCCASIONS RECIPES

Homemade Hot Chocolate Mix (Gluten Free Recipe)

In season? Hot chocolate mix! Here's something that, in winter, can't miss in my kitchen pantry. The hot chocolate mix seems to be a family traditions. Among the pages of an old family cookbook, where my grandmother Sara used to write her recipes, I found her recipe for homemade hot chocolate mix. It isn't that. What…

ByMonica17 December 20190Comments

Cakes and Cookies Christmas COURSES Eggs INGREDIENTS OCCASIONS RECIPES

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…

ByMonica12 December 20190Comments

Christmas COURSES Desserts Gluten-free INGREDIENTS OCCASIONS RECIPES

Sweet potato Montblanc dessert

The original version of Montblanc, meaning White Mountain , has two main ingredients: chestnut puree and whipped cream. It is sugary, delicious, and easy to make. This spoon dessert is typical of northern Italy and probably of French origin. At home, it was a dessert reserved for special occasions such as Christmas lunch.…

ByMonica5 December 20190Comments

Cakes and Cookies COURSES Gluten-free INGREDIENTS RECIPES

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…

ByMonica2 November 20190Comments

Breakfast and Merenda Cakes and Cookies COURSES Gluten-free OCCASIONS RECIPES

Buckwheat pumpkin cake with almonds. An Italian gluten-free pantry cake

As I placed the ingredients for the pumpkin cake on the table, this is the right recipe for those who, like me, prefer sweet but not too sweet desserts. Although I indulge in obscenely sweet treats like meringues filled with cream every now and then. What desserts do you prefer? The answer depends on the…

ByMonica19 October 20190Comments

COURSES Desserts Fruits Gluten-free INGREDIENTS RECIPES

Summer Fruit Popsicles Made With Melon And Watermelon

Fruits! In summer, what could be fresher, better and more colorful than a fruit popsicles? I like to use seasonal ingredients to create simple recipes. I love traditional Bolognese and Romagna cuisine, but I don't eat tortellini everyday. What I offer you is a treat that seems more a sorbetto then a popsicles even if made only…

ByMonica6 August 20190Comments