Posts from ‘April, 2006’

Yes, I really think that this is it, that The Evil Winter has finally lost the battle. The weather these last four or five days has been absolutely marvelous - sunny and beautiful with temperatures around 10-13 degrees. I know that these are winter temperatures for some of you but for me, who’s been freezing my [...]

It’s simple: I don’t own a digital camera. I wish I had one, if I did I would post photos on everything until you’d beg me to stop. Not that my food is that much to see… I am not a bad cook – I am not a terrific cook either but good enough. What [...]

Now we’ve eaten. Then we ate some more. I think we still have two thirds of the food left. Leftovers, anyone? I’m happy to tell you that everything was SO GOOD if I may say so myself (sure I can, this is my blog!)! We have two quarters of the casatiello in the freezer and one quarter [...]

I’ve been through 4 huge grocery stores today and still no orange flower water, the closest I got was rose water and somehow I think that wouldn’t really bring the right flavor to my pastiera… so I’m making it without, adding some orange rind instead, hoping to get close enough to the real taste. The [...]

There is an Italian saying; Natale con i tuoi, pasqua con chi vuoi. I’m making my own interpretation of it. I was intending to celebrate Christmas “the Italian way” last year but aside from the heavenly panettone and the sweet cucidati I baked it just didn’t feel right to abandon my inheritance and our strong [...]