We finally have delicious strawberries at a good price. This year I felt like eating the first ones with something slightly more elaborate than a spoonful of cream. So I decided to make these crostatine, adding, more or less subtly, some ingredients that pair perfectly with them. As you might remember, I already told you where crostate come from, with…
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Fusilli with pesto alla trapanese
Today I didn’t feel like making dinner, which usually means that, more than hunger, I don’t feel like fighting against my lilliputian kitchen. Do you know what the dimensions are of the surface where I chop vegetables, roll out dough, etc., etc., and etc.? 60 x 32 cm. I’ll add the fact that I don’t have a dishwasher and that,…
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Grandmother’s cake with almonds
The day before yesterday was the day of the “Pesce d’Aprile“, the Italian April Fool’s Day, a day people take advantage of to play various little pranks on their neighbors, the most notable being sticking paper fish on people’s backs without them noticing. It would be like our Holy Innocents’ Day, but instead of December 28th, it’s the first day…
