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Panforte

Candied fruits. Someone hates them, someone loves them. I have always been part of the first ones, small chunks of candied orange peel or candied pumpkin have the power to keep me away from cassate, cannoli or christmas panettone. For the same reason I was not a big fan of the senese Christmas cake, the
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Cassatelle di Agira

I grew up in the kitchen. The kitchen was the house’s room where I spent most of my childhood, doing my homework, reading or watching my favourite tv series, while my mothers was cooking our supper, a “crostata” or a cake. When I started cooking, first as a simple passionate, my family recipes, my family
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Falsomagro, a Sicilian stuffed veal roast

Who knows me knows that I’m not a meat eater. When I was child my favorite dish was pasta, any kind of pasta. At family dinners I was known by cousins ​​and uncles for my habit of asking for bread and oil instead of the “secondo” or my ability to eat just the fried bread
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Mince pies

Since I got married I always spend a couple of days in the kitchen before Christmas baking cookies and cakes for friends and family. It’s our family tradition and I love to renovated it each year with my daughters, even if this period of the year is busy like for everybody.  Nowadays we can do
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An Italian Christmas, my homemade tortellini

It’s not a secret that I love Christmas and I love to host in my home the family’s Christmas lunch.Each year when the calendar turns to the first december’s days I start decoranting my house, baking cookies for friends and thinking to the Christmas menù.In my childhood memories on Christmas lunch there was always pasta.Pasta
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