These were meant to be a treat for the weekly Friday coffee-break at my office. It is in fact a Swedish custom (and a very nice one) to have coffee and cake with colleagues on a Friday afternoon (fredags fika). We (me and the brownies) had instead to stay home to take care of a sick little princess. She’s already […]
This was another one of my longings as an expat Italian… the typical crusty rustic loaf that is simply divine when filled with Italian cured meats like Parma ham and mortadella. Or some felino salami… and how about freshly cut porchetta? I have always been more of a bread than a pasta type. I can live without pasta (although […]
This has been a long search and a long craving. For years I have been dreaming of the fragrant taste of newly made cornetti, Italian croissants, coming right out of the oven. In Rome, it is traditional to have breakfast out and to eat freshly baked cornetti just before work, or school. It is also traditional to wait until sunrise, […]
Summer we all have seen, a few of us believed A few, the more aspiring, unquestionably loved But Summer does not care, she goes her spacious way As eligible as the moon, to our Temerity The Doom to be adored, the Affluence conferred unknown as to an Ecstasy, the Embryo endowed -Emily Dickinson- Summer in Sweden […]
