It seems everyone is thinking about taxes and diets at this time of year. The weather doesn’t improve the gloomy outlook. So in the spirit of restraint after self-indulgence, here are few delicious healthy recipes you can enjoy while keeping your conscience at ease at the same time as each dish cost less than £1 per…
Top 5 recipes of 2015
Here are our top 5 recipes of 2015 as voted by you. Looking back at 2015, there were a few more modern recipes introduced which we had tried in several restaurants in Italy. The winners however were some of the standby classics: 5. Torta verde (chard and ricotta pie) from Liguria Torta verde is one of…
Ringing in the new year
Another year is almost over. 2015 was full of real highs and then sudden darkness looming. As a mother, one look in my child’s eyes leaves me with only hope for the future. As always, in order to focus on the enjoying the present and hoping for the future, we fix our gaze firmly on…
Where in Italy is a great place for families to spend the Christmas holiday?
Venezia (Venice) has many names and faces. It is known as the city of romance, a UNESCO city of culture rich with breathtaking architecture and art, the City of Water with its canals crisscrossing the city, the City of Masks as shops display the city’s characteristic carnival masks year-round, as where the orient meets Europe…
My favourite foodie presents from last Christmas
Typically I slowly hoard Christmas presents all through the year. Meanwhile my husband spends 363 days of the year in denial that Christmas is always on December 25. I predict that in 9 days from now, he will be amongst the crowds of shoppers desperately trying to remember who and what to buy for. This year…
Our family’s favourite Christmas dish
There are a few evocative Christmas foods that elicit childhood memories from a simpler time. Christmas and childhood are intertwined and that festive feeling of families coming together to celebrate the season is one that no child forgets. For some people Christmas means roast chestnuts, roast turkey, goose or beef, traditional cakes, tarts and puddings…
The most underrated city in Italy
Forget everything you have heard about Palermo. Erase the memory of every mafia movie you grew up on. Just as we don’t define people by their affliction don’t judge Palermo by its parasitic disease. The vast majority of Sicilians are not Mafiosi and dislike the mafia even more than you. There is a small but defiant group…
The best edible gifts are here
It may be a bit strange but the first time I had these traditional Italian chocolate dipped dried oranges and figs was in Sydney, Australia. I probably passed over these several times before in Italy without realizing it, as I am a bit of a purist when it comes to chocolate. I like pure dark…
Liberty, Equality, Fraternity and Solidarity
This is the new national motto of France. We were all innocent until a few days ago. How long ago it seems. When the news spread of the events developing in Paris, Beirut and Baghdad, every single one of us put ourselves in the shoes of those poor terrorised people and of their families. I,…
And we win the award for…..
My husband and I were discussing hypothetically spending a year living in different parts of Italy. The natural question was, which regions were best at which points of the year? The early summer we decided was best for the beaches of the Amalfi coast in Campagna, Sardegna and Sicily. The late summer we would prefer to avoid…
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