Antonella Cooking Classes
Tagliolini with black kale You can imagine how much I love cooking, but I need to say that some days can be challenging even to me. We are currently 5 in this home. Everyone has lunch and dinner in and everyone has personal needs. Few vegs, lots of vegs, very few meat (me!), pasta cooked
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Tuscany is – with a good reason – a top destination for foodies. But what is the typical Tuscan food. Which dish represents more this extraordinary piece of Italy? Everybody knows the goodness of the milky pecorino, the savoury and greedy prosciutto or the lardo di colonnata, the huge bistecca, the rich eggy pappardelle with
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Spaghetti aglio olio e peperoncino for the World Pasta Day Federico Fellini used to say, “Life is a combination of magic and pasta.” Pasta, more than any other ingredient, represents the Italian lifestyle through the world; it’s not just about the basic food of our daily diet, but it’s a symbol of our love for
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Sicilian sugar brioche At the beginning of September I went to Sicily for two days. My childhood home. Just two plentiful days, too few to do everything I wanted, enough to understand how the passing of time increases the distances inexorably. I live with a conflicted feeling, right there in my stomach. Something that pulls
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Yesterday morning my local farmers market was plentiful of summer veggies and I packed my grocery bag for the week. Aubergines, red bell peppers, green beans and courgettes, crunchy salads, cherries and peaches. I also saw these very fresh pumpkin flowers and I couldn’t resist: their bright yellow color represents the nice season and makes me
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If you want to improve your cooking skills you need to get your hands dirty. You need to make mistakes, you need to try and try again Looking to someone while is giving the shape to the gnocchi, tying a roast or stretching a pizza dough can give us the idea that … it’s easy!
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13 days lockdown. Sometime I wake up in the middle of the night asking me if everything it’s real or if I’m living in a nigthmare. It’s hard to follow a day routine, I promised myself to spend this time in advantageous way reading and studying, but it’s hard to find concentration. I need to
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Recently I had the time to read the famous Samin Nosrat book Salt, Acid, Fat, Heat and, believe me, this is one of the best book I bought in the last 5 years. And I buy lots of food books! You have certainly read many reviews about the book and the Netflix series, so it’s
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This famous liqueur is easy to make, you need just three ingredients. In my family home, in Sicily, there are a couple of lemons tree; they are small, but able to produce a good amount of fruits, scented and juicy. Lemons are among the “basic ingredients” of sicilian food, we boil the zest together with
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Well I can say I’m not a fan of Valentine’s day, but any occasion is good for baking! I love the idea of these little tarts, mostly of desserts and tarts are pretty better if they are made in smaller individual portions. I used the classic sablèe dough, is richer in butter and sugar then
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