And here we are, contemplating the incredible bread bounty of the third edition of Panissimo. This time I will let the images and the names of the breads to talk, and remember that if you click on the name of the blog besides each bread you can access the full post with the complete method […]
Bagnet vert is a traditional herb sauce from Northern Italy. It does look like pesto genovese, doesn’t it? Well, while the look may be similar the taste couldn’t be more different. Bagnet vert is in fact made with parsley, while pesto genovese is made with basil -c’mon you can’t possibly confuse one for the other- […]
When you start to get more confident with bread dough, I can guarantee that one day you will find yourself adding a little of this and a little of that to your yeast or sourdough based dough, and that you will become so bold and nonchalant in playing with water and flour that the results […]
Yesterday at the market I stumbled in a jar of organic cashew nuts butter. Curious as I am about anything related to food, I bought it and when I tasted it I was surprised by the sweet flavor and by the smooth consistency of the nuts’ paste. They say that creative thinking has an incubation […]
I get almost speechless when looking at all the beautiful breads that we have received for the second edition of PANISSIMO. Bread for every taste and of every shape, bread, bread, bread… I personally can never get enough, can you? Here you can get your biweekly overdose and find plenty of inspiration to make your […]
Sometimes recipes just get your immediate attention and once you have read about them you MUST make AND taste them right away. This was the case of Boureki to me, a traditional vegetarian dish from Crete I have learned about only a few weeks ago and I could not wait to try. I searched for […]
If you ask me what makes a loaf looking like a typical Italian rustic sourdough, I would say that is the absence of scoring. Quite often loaves are cooked seam-side up, and not seam-side down like in French breads, and the loaves either look whole (with a smooth surface) or they can even show […]
Lately I have been eating bread mostly at breakfast time and I go really bread crazy if in the morning I don’t have any good bread in my pantry or freezer. Lucky me (and lucky you) lately I have been finding a lot of recipes for rolls or quick loaves that can give fresh bread […]
As promised, today Sandra from Indovina chi viene a cena and I are simultaneously publishing the first issue of PANISSIMO, a biweekly collection of breads. The roundups will be up and going the 15th and the 30th of each and every month and will include all the breads that have been sent to us within […]
Did it ever occur to you to see a picture or read a recipe of a dish and longing to make it but never finding the right time, or the right conjunction of stars, to get it done? Gnudi has been just like that to me. I had them in mind for one maybe even […]
