Last week-end we stayed at some friends’ idyllisk summer house. The place has everything nostalgic city dudes (like me) are more and more longing for: a beautiful vegetable garden, a glasshouse, and happy lambs walking nearby. On the way there, I found a shiny looking food magazine all dedicated to caramel-based desserts. There they proposed a pretty […]
This is the first time I put my hands (and brain and heart) at Kanelfläta, a coffee cake which is a staple of Swedish baking. In Sweden there is no fika (afternoon coffee break) without its fikabröd, possibly coming from a good bakery. One can actually even get some pretty decent kanelfläta at supermarkets, if they have a […]
So here I am. Back from holidays and happily baking again. On my return I had a lovely surprise: I’ve got into the Daring Bakers group so I could finally participate to the monthly challenge. There was very little time left and I was glad that the challenge was about crunchy flat bread, in one […]
IMPORTANT NOTE: LEAVING FOR VACATION SOON SO I WILL NOT BE POSTING OR COMMENTING FOR A WHILE (BUT I KNOW I WILL MISS IT-MISS YOU!). HOPE THAT YOU WILL ENJOY THE OUTDOORS AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE. I SURELY WILL. XOX NOTA IMPORTANTE: FINALMENTE SONO ARRIVATE LE VACANZE QUINDI NON POSTERO’ O COMMENTERO’ PER UN PO’ (E GIA’ […]
The kitchen of Quanti Modi Di Fare E Rifare decided to bake some bread, and of course I could not miss the chance. This month’s challenge is to make Puccette Pugliesi, traditional potato rolls from Puglia, Southern Italy. The original recipe, posted by the sweet Vale from In Cucina Senza Glutine, is based on commercial yeast […]
Today I made again my current favorite sourdough, Söder White Leaven. It is the third time I bake this bread and it keeps improving.
I wanted to wait to post about my latest baking experiment, as I did not take enough (or good enough) pictures of the outcome or of the making. But… having been away big part of the week on a solitary work trip, I was so pleased, on my return, to be able to feed my child with […]
See the pretty loaf with the crunchy looking golden crust? It was made without following any specific method. Just went its own way and surprised me. And now I am going to show you step-by-step what I did and actually give you the recipe and method. So this is going to be a “no recipe” bread for not […]
A few weeks ago I was honored with the prize “Premio Cake Blog Di Qualita’” (cake prize for a quality blog). The prize is given by another blogger who received it earlier. I got mine from Uno Scoiattolo In Dispensa – The Pantry Squirrel, a lovely girl based in Edinburgh who writes a food blog in both […]
It seems that I cannot go more than one week without baking some bread. This was my last enterprise, taken from Hamelman’s bible. I was immediately attracted by the idea of making a loaf loaded with olives. The same dough gives simply amazing olive focaccia. So amazingly good that it did not survive long enough to be photographed. The […]
