World Bread Day: Sumac Focaccia Bread

Today it’s World Bread Day!!!!I consider focaccia a type of flat bread, as it is the way I eat it most of the time: if I have friends coming over and I do not have fresh bread, I knead a focaccia (my Kenwood chef knead a focaccia, to be precise), and the appetizers are saved!And

A nice slice of meat

I know: I’m neglecting this blog… I miss it!I miss to have enough time and organization to blog at least three times a week…But please: do not abandon me!!!!! 🙂 To prove you I’m alive (besides my flickr pictures!!!), kind of, here it’s one of our latest luch: a very nice slice of meat… But

My new belle

Few weeks ago was my birthday (for some insight of the crazy week-end we had, you can check out Robyn‘s pictures: she was visiting with some friends! And we had tons of fun!).I received some presents (well, better to, as I cooked dinner for 20 of my closest friends!!!): some teas, delicious lip balms and

A long working week-end

Well, working, yes, but you know, when you work for a food company and they put you in charge of organizing their events, well, work is more like fun!First, Friday night I welcome in Milan a fellow German blogger, Matthias, who’s gonna cover the German market for San Lorenzo. Then on Saturday morning we drove

Daring Bakers: Cinnamon rolls

I have to say I love Cinnamon rolls. In general. Always. They are good, that’s it!And then I saw this month challenge of the Daring Bakers I was happy, really!You have to know that every daring baker take turn to host the monthly event. So every month we have a different host (this month is

Guinness chicken

Ireland.My first encounter with an English spoken country was Ireland, in 1992.And it was even my first vacations with friends, without my parents. It was one of the most amazing experiences I ever had: being a teenager, in a foreign country, in one of the most amazing and lively European capitals, very different from now

Magic Tajine, on the table, who is the fairest one of all?

Magic Tajine: Over the seven jewelled restaurants, beyond the seventh pan, in the kitchen of the Seven Chefs, dwells Piperita, fairest of them all.Queen [of food bloggers]: Piperita lies dead in the forest [you wish!]. The Envy Bloggers have brought me proof. Behold, her heart.Magic Tajine: Piperita still lives, fairest in the land. ‘Tis the

London, pho and sun!

I’m back in London, this time for this! Wandering around I found this amazing place where they make outstanding Pho! And as in England is still surprisingly warm, I ate in their garden, just off the Chelsea Garden Market!Gosh, Bourdain is so right about Pho! I even wrote a little review of the place on