Opera is a dessert I always wanted to try, but never found the courage! It is one of those dessert so complicate dan with so many different passages and layers, that, honestly, if it wasn’t for the Daring Bakers, I would probably be still here wondering about it!Funny thing is that before to make it,
First we went down, then up, by another street, and then down again, to the bottom, and then, too tired to go up again, we took a petit taxi to go up… And like this for 3 days. And we didn’t get tired of it… I would go up and down in Fès for ever!Even
We took the bus at 6.45 am and leave Marrakech on a cold but sunny morning.We have in front of us 8 hours of bus ride, in the mountains. Fun!As soon as we leave Marrakech and we begin to go up, the weather changes and it becomes grey, rainy and cold! We freeze in the
We left home on a Friday night, heading to my parents home, in Varese, where we left the cat and we slept few hours before leaving for the airport (Malpensa is much nearer to my parents house then to our home in Milan) at 4.30 am on a Saturday.3 hours flight with EasyJet from Milan
Morocco… That’s where I’ve been in the last two weeks… And that’s where I would love to live the rest of my life! Morocco… A beautiful country, made of sand, sea, ocean and imperial cities… Morocco… The land where time really stops! At first we thought it was our watch, but soon realized that the
I was born in the Lake region of Italy: only around Varese there are 7 lakes (famous for a hard bike tour): Varese, Maggiore, Comabbio, Biandronno, Monate, Ghirla, Ganna ! Well, do not imagine lakes of the size of an American lake: no, nothing like that! They small lakes, but very very picturesque… Those lakes
[Update: the pictures were added Monday, 31 March 2008, at 8.56, Italy Time for the reasons explained below] Oh gosh, it’s today! I though it was for tomorrow!I was freely going around the net this morning, when I hit my FaceBook page and saw a random status message from Jean Aw, Tastespotting founder, saying “…
Here I am, neglecting my blog since ages and then, what do I publish? A book review! Not even a recipe and not even a picture! Bad Sara, bad!But my book review is more useful then anything you can think of… My book review is about a book, as you can easily understand for the
I have recently became accustomed to Bollywood movies! They rock!!! I love them!!!So, when my friend Sara (my Bollywood movies pusher) proposed a Bollywood night, well, I jumped in with great pleasure!!! 🙂And I proposed to bring an old favourite of my husband: the Indian rice pudding.It’s a really soothing dessert, fairly simple, but worthy
This morning I was happily going through my March issue of Olive (courtesy of my kind friend Sarah Blow), one of the prominent British food magazine, and I found an article titled “Cheap Shots. Even Michelin-starred chef need to know how to cook on a budget. Olive reveals how the professional cut down on food