Category: Mangiare!
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Pasta alla Nonna
Pasta is the best. Period. There’s absolutely no arguing about it. Fuck low carb. Fuck zoodles. Zoodles. I mean come on. I love zucchini. But I want them WITH my pasta not AS my pasta. That’s just not right. Talking about zucchini, why are the Brits the only one calling them courgettes? French cuisine, o…
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Gateau au Chocolat
“All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn’t hurt.” [Charles M. Schulz] A new, rich recipe with lots and lots of chocolate, chocolate sprinkles, cacao, Lindt Lindor chocolate, cream, coffee and rum. DISCLAIMER> If you don’t wanna read the intro, you may scroll down to CHAPTER I I was sitting…
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I’ve met a Gin on my travels and it was love at first try.
It’s name is White Gin. Macaronesian White Gin. And we’re a match made in heaven. But before we get to drink, it’s time for some geographical ground work: Macaronesia is a collection of four archipelagos in the North Atlantic Ocean. Vulcanic in origin, they are unique in their climate and vegetation. We gonna zoom in…
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Pumpkin Pie with Homemade Pie Crust
And here I am, with yet another American pie recipe, straight from the US, and intended to be the sweet culmination of our Friendsgiving Dinner – an evening of all-American food traditions, from turkey to stuffing to sweet potato mash with marshmellows (yuk). However, as I was assured by my American fellows, one does not…
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New York Philadelphia Cheesecake
I’m a freestyle chef. The kitchen is my open stage, and my recipes are nothing but the key for culinary jazz impro. There are people – and maybe I read or heard that somewhere, maybe it was a meme or some actual person told me – who say that baking, in comparison to cooking, is…
