Daring Bakers: pizza

Or better, the best pizza dough I’ve ever made! 🙂 As you know, I’m Italian, and for some types of food I’m so snob! One of them is pizza, no wonder! Pizza was invented in my country, and any pizza I ate out of the border of Italy were practicly disgusting! Aka, I’m a food

Salade mixte avec chèvre chaud

Yep, still here! 🙂 I haven’t blogged for 1 moth and half, doomed working too much on a new job… And I realized 3 thing: – Working too much is not worth it – I missed my blog, desperately! – Life is too short and I would love to spend most of our time having

Daring Bakers: Eclairs au chocolat

Les eclairs sans glaçage sont moche! That’s what my French husband declaired while we were discussing about this Daring Baker recipe! And who can disagree with him? Sure not us Daring Bakers! When I saw that this month’s recipe was Eclairs au chocolat I was absolutely pleased! And when I read that they were a

Spaghetti con pomodorini e bottarga

Bottarga! I just love bottarga! I’m lucky enough to have a friend who’s half Sardinian and everytime she visits her relatives in Alghero she always bring me back bottarga! And fresh bottarga is something you’ll never want to live without! One fo the best way to enjoy it is sure iver a slice of warm

Apricot sorbet

Yesterday was market day! In an almost desert Milan (mid august is the biggest holiday in Italy), we were able to still find some stalks at the local market with wonderful fruits and veggies. Among those, squishy ripe apricots… Well, what can I possibily do with a kilo of squishy-ripe fresh apricots if not an

Daring Bakers: Filbert Gateau with Praline Buttercream

I grew up in a home surrounded by a garden. Just outside the window of my bedroom there was, and still is, a big hazelnut tree. simple branches during the winter, but a lot of leaves from spring! It’s one of my favourite tree, not because is beautiful or anything, but simply because it witnessed

Daring Bakers: Danish Braid

One summer afternoon, Sara-Piperita goes to her usual Support Group: Anonymous Daring Bakers Challenged With Some Basic Preparation, ADBCWSBP (meetings every end of the month, day vary).As usually, she meets with her fellow companions (some very skilled!!!), but this time is her turn to step in front of everybody and speak about the dreadful challenge

The world of wine would be safe forever if everybody would work like…

Marco Sara, a young wine maker from Friuli, one of the eastern region of Italy: he has just 3 acres and he make just 3 wines: Picolit, Mufis and Verduz! One better than the other! My husband, who is a sommelier and he’s acknowledged among our acquaintances as a fierce wine critic, after trying them,

Day 5 to 6 Meknes and the King

[Discalimer: I know I came back from Morocco like ages ago, but I know you want to know more about our adventures there 😉 and by the way, I’m cooking almost nothing lately, so… :P] Leaving Fès, I decide to enter fully in Moroccan life: I bought a newspaper! We consulted our guide on which

Food 2.0 NomNomNom

Sunday 18th May 2008 I was here, teamed with her, doing this.We cooked all this.We where among other people, all cooking astonishing meals!Everything was organized by her in partnership them, with some outstanding sponsors!I spoke about it here and here (Italian version) and there we published our entry even here (recipes included!!!And thanks to Julia