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Photo Friday (#12)
Hello friends: Happy Friday to all of you! (The previous photo Fridays: #1 here, #2 here., #3 here and #4 here, #5 here, #6 here, #7 here, #8 here, #9 here, #10 here, #11 here) We planted a bean and...
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Photo Friday (#13)
Hello friends: Happy Friday to all of you (The previous photo Fridays: #1 here, #2 here., #3 here and #4 here, #5 here, #6 here, #7 here, #8 here, #9 here, #10 here, #11 here, #12 here) It’s been a...
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A lighter caponata (“al forno”: roasted)
Summer is here. I like to eat more vegetables and stay lighter. I am sure many of you feel the same way… It’s a time to lighten our burdens, be they physical, mental, geographic (via travel), or...
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Photo Friday (#14)
Hello friends: Hope summer is allowing you to breath, pause, and reflect… (The previous photo Fridays: #1 here, #2 here., #3 here and #4 here, #5 here, #6 here, #7 here, #8 here, #9 here, #10 here, #11...
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Zucchini & fiori di zucca
Estate (summer) = fresh vegetables and herbs from the garden. Zucchini (or as the Brits call them, courgettes) are one of the most prolific ones (you would know if you have planted some)! And they are...
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Torta fredda allo yogurt (cold yogurt cake)
Have you noticed how HOT it is? Will we finally acknowledge that global warming is an actual fact rather than a theory? Who has the desire to go in the kitchen and turn on the oven? Not me! Does that...
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Photo Friday (#15)
Hello friends: Enjoy your Friday. Pics are from Wyoming: the filling solitude of mountains, river streams and woods. (The previous photo Fridays: #1 here, #2 here., #3 here and #4 here, #5 here, #6...
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Summer plum and cherry torte – with a side of thoughts
(scroll straight down if you just want the recipe, and none of my writing nonsense) “I sometimes think that people’s hearts are like deep wells. Nobody knows what’s at the bottom. All you can do is...
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Photo Friday (#16)
Cicadas are silent again, as people are louder than ever… at the end of a hot August, the umbrellas closing down, the schools back in business, the extra-ordinary receding for the ordinary, the rains...
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Pere “ubriache” (“drunken” pears), with zabaglione custard
The summer traveled by fast; then fall came…and went, and it is winter outside already. So the thermometer says, and my mood. The daily occupations constantly refilling my cup, without room for a...
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3 little ancient sweet “dolci” for the holidays
Under my tree, this year, all I am asking is for “time”. Time to spend with my little guys, and my big guy. There is nothing more precious. I need no-thing, no boxes, no parcels, no wrappings, and no...
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Less is more (and a blender cioccolata mousse)
Less is more This time of year, I see many people writing resolutions and I cringe a little: I have never been one to stick with January commitments… I believe changes come one-step-at-time, not all at...
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“Pollicini” con marmellata di fichi (thumbprint cookies with fig jam)
There was frost on the patio, we wanted to stay cozy, inside. “Let’s make cookies” I said “Let’s see what jam is around…” “Fig and apricot!” echoed the kids “sounds perfect” I thought We kneaded the...
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Cod with fennel, potatoes, and capers (micro-blogged!)
Truth is I have become a little more lazy about blogging because it was taking too much time and energy, in it’s traditional format. However, where there is a wish there is a way… so i started...
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Photo friday #17 (microblogged…i am on a roll)
Has it really been months since my last “photo Friday”? Yes, almost half a year already. But i keep “collecting” these nuggets of my existence on my cell phone, saving them for later. I meant to share...
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My “fluffy” Tiramisu’ – espresso trifle
Happy Monday everyone (so fun to be writing from my cell phone again..). This weekend i helped celebrate a friend’s 40th surprise birthday. I was asked to make dessert…something for an Italian themed...
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“Torta magica” – A magic cake
There is no mystery to this fact: life is hard. And that is precisely why we all can use a little bit of *magic* every day. No one goes immune through this journey: we all get dealt hard cards, at...
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