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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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Rame di Napoli and some notes about Halloween

A soft spongy biscuits, rich in chocolate with a persistent scent of cloves, cinnamon and orange. All the smells that can bring to your mind that Christmas is near are closed in these delicious cookies. Here we are, Halloween is arrived and the girls are super excited. Alice will wear a black dress decorated with
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My daughter’s favorite:hazelnuts & chocolate cake

More than 10 years ago I discovered this cake on my favorite italian food magazine “sale e pepe”. Absolutely easy to make, nutty and rich in chocolate, this cake became a family classic, loved and requested by Aurora for each her birthday! The original recipe is without baking powder, but in my version I prefer
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Runny egg yolk ravioli

At the end of the day, sometimes I talk with my family about my work, the people I meet and the food I cook with them. With the help of cooking classes I have the opportunity to discover again some Italian dishes, more or less traditional, I cook them again for my family and, if
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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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Cuccia, legumes and wheat soup

Working with food means researching and testing new eating habits. Nowadays the request of vegetarian or vegan dishes is growing more and more. New ingredients are appeared in my kitchen such as quinoa, various seeds, powder yeast, vegetable milks and so on. Some of them are now a new habitude in my diet, like almond
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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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