Risotto!!!

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Let’s speak about risotto!!! I was born and I live in Lombardia,homeland of risotto, so for me it’s normal to eat risotto at leastonce a week, especially during winter times.Risotto is one of those Italian dishes that you can find around theworld, but how it is made, with which rice, following which methodit’s not always

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A Sweeeeeet Tooth

On the Spotlight

Donna Hay is a recent discovery for me: in Italy is quite difficultto find her books and her magazines. In one ofMilan’s best bookstore, Hoepli (they have the largest collection ofcookbooks in Italian, French and English of the city), I found one ofher books translated in French, Gourmandises (Modern Classics, Book2), by one of my

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I will be back, alive and kicking!

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So, the situation isn’t looking so good: now even the modem is broken, so…I honestly don’t know when I will be able to come back… But for sure, just to reassure all the “nice” people that are leaving “nice” comments on my posts, I WILL BE BACK, soon…And about those “nice” people, obliging me to

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Pork Friday: grapefruit marinate

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I had some cheap cut of pork and no idea how to make it, so I decided to marinated in different ways (stay tuned for the others).Here is the simplest of all! Pork, diced (any cut)The juice of 1 grapefruitFew drops of Tabasco Place the diced pork in the grapefruit juice, add some drops of

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Roasted fennel

Roasted fennels!

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Fennels are one of those vegetables that are wonderful in every way! Raw and crispy in a nice salad or cooked and soft as a side dish, either cold or warm. I think I already spoke about it, but when I was living in England, in the late 90’s, even if Jamie Oliver was already

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