Chocolate biscotti

Those are real bis-cotti, which in Italian means cooked twice. The inspiration comes from Cantucci, the world wide acclaimed Tuscan biscotti, made with almonds. Those are a little different, and they probably look like a heresy to Tuscan people 😉 They are part of my hamper for Menu for Hope (read about the whole hamper

Menu for Hope

As last year, and the three years before that, Pim is organized the biggest found rasing of the food blogosphere: Menu for Hope! Last year we raised more then 100.000 $ for the World Food Program, and this year we would love to raise even more!!! I decided to put together an Italian & French

Sablée Breton

My dear friend Sara organized a wonderful cookies swap to celebrate Christmas! She invited over some other girls, Italians, Americans, a French girl and we swapped all different kind of cookies. I brought 3 different kind of cookies: simple Italian cookies in the shape of hearts, cranberries rockies and this sablée Breton. Sablée Breton are

Dates chutney

I had many different kinds of dates around the house! Let’s state something: I do not like dates! they are too sweet, too soggy… So dates are something that only my husband eats. And as he doesn’t eat kilos of them, well, we have many around. The best way I found to get rid of

I’ve got a new blog :)

After a long period of thinking I decided to surrender to the urge I felt to write in Italian too! And here it is, brand new, and growing 🙂 Mele al forno Do not worry: I’ll never leave this blog and I’ll keep updating it for ever 🙂 Mele al forno is actually a project: