Exactly one week ago I was impatiently waiting to catch the plane that would have taken me back to my little family (always tough to leave a nice family, especially when it includes a lovely 2-year old child). Having to travel alone for work on a weekend really was not helping the moral. On top […]
The other day, still recovering from my cold, I was reading about pane toscano (tuscan bread) and about how in the old days bread was never thrown away. Tuscan cuisine is indeed particularly renown for its bread-based recipes, like ribollita, pappa al pomodoro, and panzanella. Wow, panzanella… I suddenly realized I have not had it […]
Ok, it seems that winter (Autumn is definitely gone here) is taking its toll on me. Sick again with a flu bug. Which means, confined home again and… baking biscuits again! One of my many longings as an expat Italian are industrial Italian cookies. Among them, those called “abbracci”, hugs, were possibly my all-time favorites […]
Home sick with a sick child. This means: let’s bake. For once I wanted to do something that would actively engage my little one, a dough with which she could play as long as she wanted (which means: no sourdough). I also wanted to get her to use again the cute cutters I got last […]
So here I am, writing about Roman artichokes from incredibly warm and sunny Michigan. Was prepared for a cool autumn weather and instead we were welcomed by the summer. Temperature always in the 80s (Fahrenheit, between 25 and 30 degrees Celsius), except at night. Really bothered by my poor choice of clothes, but the forecast […]
It is somewhat emotional to finally get to make the perfect Italian sourdough loaf or, at least, my idea of the perfect one. If you have followed me a bit, you know that it is less than a couple of months since I started to bake bread, that I recently raised my own sourdough starter, and that […]
This is the first recipe I try from the bread bible for Italian home cooks “Pane e roba dolce”. The book was written by the Simili sisters. Baking twins who made bread history in central Italy, first by owning a popular bakery, then with a cooking school and lastly with this book that (I reckon) is the most quoted by Italian home bakers. My daughter does […]
A few days ago, I got hooked by the post from Jenna, presenting a lovely shallots and mushrooms quiche. I have never made a quiche before so I was eager to try. Unfortunately (or fortunately, considering the happy outcome) I have eaten a humongous amount of mushrooms lately and my stomach protested at the idea of having more. I instead […]
It had been a non-working Wednesday. It was raining and both me and my little one felt too sleepy or lazy to get out or do anything constructive. Luckily, I had some sourdough bread getting ready to be baked (and eaten) so I did not feel like I was totally wasting my day. As usual, some research was […]
And here I am. Finally writing about what interests me most lately. Yes, it is true, I have been taken by the sourdough addiction that is making more and more “victims” all over the globe. In Sweden they even have a sourdough hotel now (a sourdough-sitting place, where you can leave your sourdough if you travel or are too busy […]
