Ode to catalogna (or chicory catalogna)

I LOVE CATALOGNA! I just boil it, add some flaked chilli pepper from Sicily and a tablespoon of extra virgin olive oil and use it as a pasta sauce… It’s good, healthy, bitter and still wonderfully tasty. I like to leave it a bit crunchy…I could eat it forever and ever…

Pasticcio

You should know I’m widely know as pasticciona, a really messy girl… I mess up with everything, all the time, and of course I mess up in the kitchen… Should I remind you my ugly cake attempt???Anyway, this one is not really a pasticcio, but pumpkin cannelloni… But it looks like a pasticcio… 1 pumpkin,

Avocado, salmon and tapioca in verrines

One of my last buy on Amazon was this amazing book that reflects the last and crazy trend that is going on on the other side of the Alps: verrines (aka, little drinking glasses filled with savoury or sweet stuff).The book is wonderful, with so many ideas I can’t stop looking at it!But remember, if

My Kitchen…

… it’s what I am: messy and sunny!!! Happily participating to the event my friend Ilva proposed, here are some picks of my kitchen.When we moved in our actual flat the former owner ask us if we wanted to keep the original kitchen for a ridiculous price. As the kitchen was only 3 years old,

This year I dare…

Following this good idea form my friend Ilva, at Lucullian Delights, I will provide for future reference (:-D today I’m so funny I laugh all alone for my pointless choice of words!!!) the list of the five attempts I will try this year, not in chronological order, not even in challenging order, just random:1. Macarons: