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French Toast or Pain Perdu

16AprilSara MaterniniDessert, cakes and sweet stuff, RecipesBread, egg, milk, sugar

French toast in English, Pain perdu in French: basically the same thing. A file of sliced stale bread, milk, egg, sugar, a little fit of butter and you are in heaven! Ingredients for French Toast Sliced bread, a few days old Milk Beaten egg (begin with 1, then if it’s not enough you can beat

Greek cake with spinach and feta

3JuneSara MaterniniMain Course, On the Spotlight, Startersbutter, egg, extra.virgin olive oil, feta cheese, fillo pastry, greece, greek, milk, pine nuts, raisins, shallot, spinach

I love Greece and every year, when summer comes, I think about it and how much I would love to go back! So I try to sunken myself in Greek recipes! This combination, feta cheese and spinach, just scream Greece, and the fillo pastry, with its crunchiness is perfect! Ingredients 1 pack frozen fillo pastry,

Finnish buns

22FebruarySara MaterniniDessert, cakes and sweet stuff, On the Spotlightbutter, cardamom, egg, flour, milk, salt, sugar, yeast

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

Special Edition: World Nutella Day – Nutella Crêpes

5FebruarySara MaterniniDessert, cakes and sweet stuff, On the Spotlightbeer, buckwheat flour, crêpes, eggs, flour, France, milk, oil, salt

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

Pumpkin Muffin with Chocolate Chip

24JanuarySara MaterniniDessert, cakes and sweet stuffbaking powder, cane sugar, chocolate chip, egg, flour, milk, pumpkin, vegetable oil

One of the last pumpkin of the season, I know… Soon there will be asparagus and other spring vegetables… So, what better use than pumpkin muffins? Of course the best use of all is pumpkin risotto! But even the muffin are quite satisfying! Inspiration from Le Cordon Bleu – home Collection – Muffins. Ingredients 250

Ragù di carne

17JanuarySara MaterniniMain Course, Simply Italianbacon, canned tomatoes, carrot, celery, extra.virgin olive oil, milk, minced beef, onion, pancetta, red wine, triple tomato purée

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

Bavarois au safran et miel

5FebruarySara MaterniniOn the Spotlightcream, egg, honey, jelly, milk, saffron

Bavarois is something quite simple to make, if you have patience, passion and a predisposition to make desserts. Patience because you need to wait, to let the cream cool before to do anything else. Passion because you need to come up with endless parings to make astonishing bavarois. Predisposition because if you don’t know by

French Toast or Pain Perdu

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Greek cake with spinach and feta

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Finnish buns

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Special Edition: World Nutella Day – Nutella Crêpes

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Pumpkin Muffin with Chocolate Chip

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Ragù di carne

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Bavarois au safran et miel

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