Year: 2021
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Fourth Sunday of Advent
This early morning it was still dark outside when we lit the fourth candle of Advent up.
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From the page dedicated to Stockholm Photography Gallery
Julmarknad i Gamla Stan It was during one of my first visits to Stockholm that I had the pleasure to enjoy a beautiful walk in the lovely mesmerising Christmas market in Gamla Stan. I won’t tell the reader about the cosy Christmas atmosphere you can feel in the air. You’ve got to experience it. So,…
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Short pastry and season fruit to start this first December week
Grey sky upon the first weekend of Advent. In these days, leaves are turning yellow and golden and, slowly, light as delicate petals, they are falling from the trees. On the other hand, it was gorgeous time for starting to decor with warm lights and green balsamic fragranced branches of Abies. Besides, there was a…
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From the Project Page: In the Kitchen Garden – Flowers, Vegetables and Quotes
November Sunday in the garden Sweet vanilla persimmons up on the tree are getting ripe and zucchini flowers are to be picked: they long for being filled with creamy ricotta cheese, tiny strips of pistacchio mortadella, chopped green olives and then fried in extra virgin olive oil. Are you interested and would you like to…
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From the Project: In the Kitchen Garden – Flowers, Vegetables and Quotes
November arrived with the soft glistening lights of candles and this little bright flowers that filled the heart with marvel. Wishing everybody a beautiful November!
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Pot roasted shoulder of lamb: when the dishes of tradition talk
Welcome in the kitchen! Last weekend, during a long beautiful driving up to the hills in the heart of Apulia region, there was time for a visit at a good local butcher’s, where they served me a tender piece of shoulder of lamb filled with a typical local artisan salumi called “capocollo” and “caciocavallo podolico”…
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From the Project: In the Kitchen Garden – Flowers, Vegetables and Quotes
It was this morning when I caught this view of the zinnias flowers in the garden. They are still there, beautiful in their lively brightness and tall in their daring effort to reach for the sky. I saved the seeds for the next good season. Would you save the seeds of your efforts for the…
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Recipe for good bread
The new week started with checking the bread dough left to rest for a night.Indeed, the next morning, the bread dough seemed to have that peculiar bubbly fluffiness for making a well done bread. It only needed little time and work of kneading more and, of course, ingredients inside play a relevant role. – What…
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The cosy feeling of a faba beans purée
Hello October! The week is painted with the golden colors of Autumn and one of the most prepared dishes at this time of the year, according to my family tradition, is a delicious creamy faba beans purée. Simple ingredients to make a tasteful recipe that requires an easy way of execution, which can be also…
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