Small recipes cooked with great love
As you may know, granola is not exactly popular for breakfast here in Italy. The classical Italian breakfast consists of cappuccino e cornetto, usually consumed in a cafè and, quite often, in a hurry. Needless to say, cappuccino and cornetto are delicious, but not very healthy, especially if they become a daily habit. Personally, I prefer to eat […]
Bonet (pronounced boonet) is a typical Italian dessert from Piedmont, a sort of flan or custard, extremely easy to make and absolutely delicious to eat, as only traditional sweets can be. It owes its name to the mould it was baked into, which was similar to the shape of of a hat, “bonet” in the […]
Spring means strawberries, loads of strawberries, like those that bought our dear Daddy some days ago. He came home with a whole flat, or crate, of strawberries, which means eight pints, more than two kilos, five pounds, I’m not sure, but in any case far more strawberries than three people can eat before they turn […]
Cooking for the whole family can be a real challenge. Mine is a small one, we’re only three, but I can only imagine how difficult it can be for the moms who cook for bigger families to accommodate all members, everyone with their own tastes. Even the quantity of food you buy and cook can […]
I remember tasting arugula pesto for the first time about ten years ago in a small restaurant near here and I remember being peasantly surprised. Since then, I made it several times at home, sometimes trying to vary the ingredients a bit, using walnuts, pinenuts, parmesan or other grated cheeses, dairy or non-dairy cream, but […]
Sometimes I am tempted to buy spring onions, when I see them at the local market, but then, once at home, I do not know how to cook them properly and end up using them like common onions, which is surely not the best way to taste them. This time I made a little effort […]
Primosale is a typical Italian fresh sheep cheese with a delicate, milky and lightly-salted taste that most children like and my daughter is no exception. She loves it and asks me to buy it often, but, sometimes, she just decides she won’t eat another bite of it, don’t ask me why, and there’s nothing you […]
