Milan becomes really international few times a year: during the fashion shows and during the Salone del Mobile. I normally avoid the real fair (pure chaos) and I prefer strolling around all the events in center of Milan.My day, chronologically (here the pictures I took this morning):8.30 am meeting at Princi for the first likemind.mil
Well, verrines are absolutely at their highest in France! You see them everywhere, salted, sweet, to take away… They put inside a verrine practically anything!And maybe in two, three, four years some “clever” Italian chef will begin to use them telling everybody how smart he is… Well, we’ll know he’s wrong! Now tell me: who
With my friends sometimes I joke about the bed&breakfast treatment they get when they sleep over: I have to be forgiven for the crazy cat in some way! But at the end it’s not so much of a joke! With the due advise, if someone is coming to sleep over I prepare something for breakfast:
Just a sandwich, made with some cold smocked turkey and a frittata (Disclaimer: I don’t complete agree with this wikipedia entry… I cooked mine entirely in a skillet, turning it once…) I made with courgettes and gorgonzola. And some wonderfully tasty strawberries we bought in a street shop in Camargue! P.S. Both pictures were taken
Lately my life is at a turning point! Everything is changing, and the long awaited turn I was expecting for my 30th birthday has finally arrived (2 years and half later, but finally!). Anyway, this just to invite you, oh dear reader/commenter/friend, to the first likemind “made in Milan” (for the other Italian likeminds, click
For Easter, in Italy, we don’t decorate much… No bunnies in the courtyard, no eggs search… Just some chocolate eggs… But in France, they are mad about Easter decorations! They were everywhere!
For our Easter vacation we’ve been off to France: Alsace, Rhone valley and Camargue.I was long awaiting to visit Camargue, and I was fully rewarded!!! A tour along the little streets, far for tourists, surrounded by nature, birds and wild animals, altogether with unknown people that tell you how to spot a little frog on
A ship loaded with… And my answer to this childish game was always: POTATOES!!!But not in this case!Here how I filled my bagels: ricotta mixed with stracchino (just because I hate average cream cheese and I prefer to make my own personal idea of it!) and grilled vegetables marinated in balsamic vinegar, extra virgin olive
I’m Italian and I’ve almost ever lived in Italy (if you take off some month in France and some others in England…). And that should be enough to explain you which kind of relationship I can have with bagels: none! I’ve seen them in movies, on tv, but I’ve never ate a REAL one in
About once a month we dine with a couple friends of ours. We host alternately and each time we try our best and most extravagant recipes to please each other: we always try something new, from a different country, a challenge for the palate and the cook’s skills (me and the hubby of the other