Moelleux au chocolat et beurre salé

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A French classic. And as Julia Child used to say, French cuisine has 3 basic ingredients: butter, butter, and butter. So do not be afraid  by the amount of fat there is in this recipe: it’s French! The recipe comes from n. 138 of Cuisine et Vins de France, which called for unsalted butter, but

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10 steps to (better) cooking: How to choose a recipe

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You are surrounded by recipes! Not only from this very blog, but on the entire internet you’ll find billions of recipes! Now even Google has a dedicated search! But not all recipes are the same and not all recipes are trustworthy… It happens, and quite often, to read recipes that call for 300 ml of

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10 steps to (better) cooking: Cut, cut, cut!

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Cutting is one of the basic elements of cooking. To cut food and not yourself you need just few basic rules. 1. Knives You don’t need many of them. Actually 3 are more than enough, but they have to be top quality! If your knife is harp there are much more less chances you end

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Pizza dough

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If I say pizza and what do you think? I hope you think of Italy, because it comes from here and more precisely Naples. No pineapple, no salami, no strange, exotic  toppings. The one I prefer is the simplest of all, a pizza margherita: tomato sauce, mozzarella and basil. Sometimes the better pleasure in life

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Finnish buns

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This buns are just perfect! There is nothing more to say about this velvety dough and sensational French brioche texture! The original recipe is from Falling Cloudberries: A World of Family Recipes, by Tessa Kiros: I recommend this book to anyone interested in real, down to hearth, simple and satisfying recipes! I’ve tried many and

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Cooking like an Italian: Bucatini all’Amatriciana

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Bucatini all’amatriciana: oh my, how many difficult words are in this simple dish? Bucatini: it’s a thick spaghetto with a hole (buco) in the middle Amatriciana: it’s a kind of pasta sauce, originating from Amatrice, a village north of Rome. It is a basic Italian dish, but as all basic Italian dishes, every family has

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10 steps to (better) cooking: Gear up!

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If you want to drive a car you need an engine. If you want to hike a mountain, you need the right shoes and equipment. If you want to bike, you need a working bicycle. But if you want to to cook most people is convinced you don’t need anything if not a few pan.

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How to cook pasta

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You may think that cooking pasta is something fairly simple. May be. But are you cooking it in the way you should? Are you really sure that it’s only a matter of boiling water? Water You need at least 1 litre of water for each 100g of pasta. At least means that you shouldn’t, under

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Special Edition: World Nutella Day – Nutella Crêpes

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Last 2nd February in France was Chandeleur, a holiday once religious, known now days as the Crêpes Day! It’s basically a day dedicated to crêpes, during which all French eat crêpes. As it was in the middle of the week, and despite the fact that making a single crêpe is fairly quick, but making them

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Pumpkin Muffins recipes

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A lazy sunday afternoon, searching for a recipe to use the remaining of one of the last pumpkin of the season, I’ve found so many recipes that I thought to give you the list of the 12 I’ve really liked at first sight. [nggallery id=2] Urban Comfort: Pumpkin Muffins The Pioneer Woman: Moist Pumpkin Spice

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