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A good stuffed and roasted guinea fowl is something merry and wintery, that will add to your post-holiday dinner a reminder of the late Christmas and New’s year celebrations. 1 guinea fowl (enough for 4 to 6 people) For the stuffing: 300 g chestnuts, peeled and boiled (our chestnuts were a courtesy of a fellow
Les Pays Basque France is a big country, filled with wonders at any corners. My advice to everyone who wants to travel around France is to go off the beaten track and search for the real French experience. What’s the Real French Experience? It’s a life changing experience, full of wine, incredible food and fantastic
Those are real bis-cotti, which in Italian means cooked twice. The inspiration comes from Cantucci, the world wide acclaimed Tuscan biscotti, made with almonds. Those are a little different, and they probably look like a heresy to Tuscan people 😉 They are part of my hamper for Menu for Hope (read about the whole hamper
As last year, and the three years before that, Pim is organized the biggest found rasing of the food blogosphere: Menu for Hope! Last year we raised more then 100.000 $ for the World Food Program, and this year we would love to raise even more!!! I decided to put together an Italian & French
My dear friend Sara organized a wonderful cookies swap to celebrate Christmas! She invited over some other girls, Italians, Americans, a French girl and we swapped all different kind of cookies. I brought 3 different kind of cookies: simple Italian cookies in the shape of hearts, cranberries rockies and this sablée Breton. Sablée Breton are
I had many different kinds of dates around the house! Let’s state something: I do not like dates! they are too sweet, too soggy… So dates are something that only my husband eats. And as he doesn’t eat kilos of them, well, we have many around. The best way I found to get rid of
After a long period of thinking I decided to surrender to the urge I felt to write in Italian too! And here it is, brand new, and growing 🙂 Mele al forno Do not worry: I’ll never leave this blog and I’ll keep updating it for ever 🙂 Mele al forno is actually a project:
The concept of brunch is not part of the Italian culture: it is imported from the Anglo-Saxon countries.In Italy we are more attached to sweet, light breakfast, and we have difficulties to have coffee as a beverage that will last for the whole lunch… But once in a while brunch is actually a very enjoyable
Ah, la vendange! This year we had the wonderful possibility to participate to a photo vendange (thanks Marco!) with other Flickr people in Oltrepò Pavese. Oltrepò Pavese is a part of Lombardy, just south of the Po (“oltre” means beyond), lavishly filled with castles, hills, and, of course, grapes! We had the opportunity to visit