Tuscany through my eyes: Week 35
01 Aug 2013
Nothing can beat the deliciousness of the summer products.
Alchermes, the taste of the holidays
12 Dec 2012
It is the smell and taste of my childhood days, when my grandmothers would gather around the “spianatoia”, the pastry board, and make “ciambellini rossi” and “salami arrotolati”, the traditional biscuits from our village covered in alchermes and sugar and a sponge-cake roll with alchermes and confectioner’s sugar.
Tuscany through my eyes – Week 3
08 Nov 2012
The beginning of November equals the beginning of the olive harvest in my family. Therefore, if you look at Tuscany through my eyes, this week you cannot but see a lot of olives!
My chocolate mini tarts
03 Nov 2012
Not much time to cook these days, but when we are in Civitella and Liam is looked after by grandma, mamma can experiment!
Gnocchi with pumpkin, leek and pinenuts
29 May 2012
A quick yet delicious recipe for busy bees (or new mums) like me!
Happy Easter!
08 Apr 2012
Our wishes for a joyful Easter to all our friends!
Roots and Other Roots
14 Mar 2012
The 10th post in our Italy Blogging Roundtable series. This month we talk about roots… and this is how a woman on a diet would interpret the topic!
World Nutella Day and Carnival? The perfect match!
05 Feb 2012
Here are the recipes for the traditional Carnival sweets of Tuscany, with a twist!
Tuscan Comfort Food
09 Nov 2011
While trying to write this post for the monthly Italy Blogging Roundtable I have realized that all food is comfort food to me, but there are different things that I crave at different times of the year. And then there is Nutella… which is a year-round soul-healing food… and a very old-fashioned Tuscan “snack”…
I almost forgot about pumpkins, Halloween and the holidays!
31 Oct 2011
Being on maternity leave, busy with an important job interview and putting together a wish list of items for our baby, and practically still wearing short sleeves on this year’s warm fall days, I almost forgot that Halloween, All Saint’s Day and the olive harvest were here! Until my grandma made Pane dei Santi…
