Ragù di carne

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  Bolognaise sauce, sauce bolognaise, ragù alla bolognese. Call it as you please, but please please please, make it in the right way! No strange stuff, like cilantro, cream, spring onions… Keep it simple and plain! The only difficult part, if you can call it so, it’s the long cooking hours, but you can cut

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10 steps to (better) cooking – Introduction

10 steps to better cooking

Can I cook better in 10 easy steps? Sure you can! How? Well, as for everything in life, with a simple choice: you want to cook better, because you love yourself and the people around you, because you want to feel better and because making something with your own hand has a pleasure that nothing

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Scotch Broth

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We had some barley in the pantry, sitting there since ages. At my call “What can we possibly do?”, my husband answered “Isn’t there a Scottish soup with barley?”. And there was, of course: Scotch Broth! The cooking method is traditionally British: everything is boiled. No browning of the meat, no frying of onion, nothing…

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Galette des Rois

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Being married with a French means some French traditions too, especially the ones that feel the void in Italian traditions. One of this is the traditional cake French make for Epiphany. In Italy Epiphany is celebrated every year on the 6th of January, in France is the first Sunday of January. Italian tradition: during the

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Tajine au citron confit

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It has been more than 1 year since my last update. Many reasons, the biggest: our son entered our life one year ago. Shall I say more? Now, to the recipe! Last September my friend Domitilla, coming back from her home town Mondragone, brought us some wonderful organic lemons, directly form her mother’s tree! Is

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Mince pies

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Well, a kind of Mince Pies. First of all because this are not pies, but tarts, mini tarts. And second of all because I’ve never tried the real English mince pie, so I cannot know if they taste alike. The original recipe, from which those little pies are inspired, is from Modern Classics, Book 2,

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All your favourite recipes on your iPhone

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A few months ago a dear friend, Juliette, asked me if I wanted to add my favourite recipes to a free iPhone/iPodTouch application she was developing. Well, I said an happy yes, and now the application, Finger Cookbook, is released and you can check it out and downloaded form the website! I can add more

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Scotland, August 2009

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For this summer our first choice was China, but something came up, so we had to decide for something nearer, fresher and more simple to travel to. We decided for Scotland, a place where we both wanted to go, as we already travelled all around England and Wales, but never set a foot in the

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Stuffed focaccia

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Lately I’m experimenting a lot with sourdough and I have to say, besides the obvious improvement with bread, it is with pizza and focaccia that a piece of sourdough do its best! For the focaccia 200 g of sourdough 300 g of flour 200 g of durm wheat flour 250 ml of water Salt Knead

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Pasta with leek and provolone

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Provolone is a smelly, tasty Italian cheese that can go from mild to very strong. You’ll need the strong, even smellier and tastier type. It’ will give to this pasta a different hint. The leeks, on the other hand, will sweeten and mild out everything. And it’s a quite simple and quick pasta. You can

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