{"id":23807,"date":"2020-01-19T19:22:12","date_gmt":"2020-01-19T18:22:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tortelliniandco.com\/?p=23807"},"modified":"2024-01-14T18:15:07","modified_gmt":"2024-01-14T17:15:07","slug":"crostata-tiramisu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tortelliniandco.com\/en\/crostata-tiramisu\/","title":{"rendered":"Tiramis\u00f9 Crostata and Why Ahead is my Word of the Year"},"content":{"rendered":"

The beginning of the new year is a good time for new intentions and goals.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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. And while I focus on what has been to get something good out of it, I cook new recipes.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Like this Tiramis\u00f9 Crostata (tart). The kitchen is my comfort zone and a helpful therapy to empty my head.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span>For some time now, at the beginning of the year, I’ve been taking a break from social, work, and confusion. I cook alone in a silent kitchen while I think about the past year and my hopes for the future. For a few years, I like to choose one word to accompany me in the following twelve months. It is a sort of formula to remember the direction I’ve chosen. A memo that sums up what I want to focus on.<\/span><\/p>\n

My 2020 Word of the Year is Ahead.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

If you want, I’ll wait for you after the recipe and tell you why.<\/span><\/p>\n

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\"Tiramis\u00f9<\/p>\n

Ahead<\/h4>\n

I want to think less about what was and what could have been and take more care of my present. For me, it has a double meaning: to be closer to the people I love and better organize the future, which always starts today.
\nAhead with curiosity, strength, and gratitude.
\nI want to make the best use of my time here and now. To be more productive at work and take more time off to cultivate my passions.<\/p>\n

In Italian, that word has an exhortation value, and I feel that it does me good every time I repeat this word inside me. Ahead also means making progress. And I hope to go beyond myself and all my whims.<\/p>\n

Less me and more humility, for example. I want to hear less about myself and listen more to others.<\/p>\n

Here on the blog, ahead will have a special meaning.
\nFor instance, I would like to cook those recipes I didn’t eat when I was a kid. I was a stubborn little girl. Recipes I still don’t cook to this day. It’s time to grow up.<\/p>\n

And even if it may seem incredible, I didn’t eat tiramisu.<\/p>\n

A Tiramisu crostata<\/h4>\n

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Then I made peace with coffee but continued not to eat this dessert.<\/p>\n

One reason is that in Bologna, people traditionally make a mascarpone cream with many eggs and a lot of sugar.<\/p>\n

Trying to overcome my culinary no, I thought I would start with tiramisu and fill a shameful gap on the blog. To do this, I tried my way.<\/p>\n

Thanks to the coffee, the shortcrust pastry is slightly bitter in a pleasant way. The cream is not very sweet and eggless. That fact, I called it a tart, but the tiramisu tart worked. Peace made.<\/p>\n

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I have turned a classic Italian spoonful dessert into a rustic charm crostata, preserving its flavors: coffee, mascarpone, and bitter cocoa.<\/p>\n

It is the perfect dessert to bring to the table for a family Sunday lunch or, again, on the occasion of a special event.<\/p>\n

Buona cucina, Monica<\/p>\n

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