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Lemon white chocolate mousse Meringata
What is this life if, full of care, We have no time to stand and stare. No time to stand beneath the boughs And stare as long as sheep or cows. No time to see, when woods we pass, ...
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Decorated cookies
These are the very first decorated cookies of my life. The first I made and the first I ate. I’m not completely happy about the result, but I cannot complain too much…it was my first batch. Before making them I ...
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Fermented garlic
Reading my blog you should have already noticed I’m garlic addicted. I use garlic for every dish I prepare, even salads. I cannot live without it. In the last few months I have been eating garlic pizza too!!! Here in ...
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Carrot salad with apricots
During these hot lazy days I’m spending my time making sugar paste figures. I’m not fond of the realistic ones so I’m focusing only on the cute guys. It’s so funny! I love making sugary pink cute pigs. And, my ...
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Orange fennel lima bean salad with curry
I’m still fighting with sugarpaste. It doesn’t do what I ‘d like it to do and that’s pretty disappointing. 19th June: Sugarpaste vs Mika score is 1-0. Playing with salads and summertime recipes is so much easier, they always do ...
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Black olive and pea cous cous salad
Hi guys!!!! I’m back again. What a month! Birthdays (lots of birthdays), cousin Confirmations and cakes to bake and decorate. I made my first three tier cake and my third 3d cake and even though I was not totally happy about ...
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Crottin de Chavignol with caramel vanilla vinaigrette
One thing I really loved about Germany was the abundance of foreign ingredients at grocery stores. I didn’t miss italian food or cheeses at all, in fact I found more italian ingredients there than in my small 8000-people-town here ...
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Salad Themed Month: Fruit salads … and water chocolate mousse
Summer is arrived and I don’t have nothing to wear appropriate to these days’ temperature. I threw almost all t-shirts I had to buy sweaters for our Germany life. Wrong! Now I have to steal t-shirts from my sister wardrobe. ...
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Salad Themed Month: Vinaigrettes
Don’t let my pictures fool you, despite their ugliness these vinaigrettes are good, simple and good. I tried to use minimal ingredients. My idea was to create basic yet tasty vinaigrettes to enrich in the following months. My favorite? Mango ...
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Salad themed month: Lentil salad
I felt in love with green lentils since the first time I ate them. They keep their shape, stay crunchy and have a nice lentil flavor without that strong taste I hate so much typical of brown lentils. They were ...
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Salad themed month: Bean salad
I’m listening to Joy the Baker podcast episode 2. I’m in love with Joy, you have to know that. I listened to her first video podcast so many times that now I know every word by heart. Ask my boyfriend. ...
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Salad themed month: Cheese salad
Five years ago I spent two months in Ireland to learn english (don’t laugh, I’m learning it slowly…ok, really slowly, but don’t laugh anyway). To learn it faster I decided to buy some english books and read them to memorize ...