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Living a Life in Colour

a guide to Italian food, wine and culture

Peas and prosciutto – a match made in heaven

May 16, 2017 By wooweiduan Leave a Comment

Pea season is upon us. The beginning of the season is the best with the taught pods bursting with plump peas. At the end of the season, the skins will turn leathery and the peas hard and floury. The surprising sweetness of the young peas is the perfect match for salty prosciutto. This is the… 

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A quick and simple dish all children love: chicken Parmigiana

May 10, 2016 By wooweiduan Leave a Comment

Cotoletta alla parmigiana (chicken breaded in a Parmesan crust and fried)

This recipe is a favourite with children the world over. We ate this dish with family friends on a scorching summer night in Modena. We dined in a town square watching the locals leaning out half naked from their windows desperate for hint of breeze. Between us we had 5 children who eagerly (and silently)… 

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Filed Under: Children, Food, footer Tagged With: chicken parmesan, children, cotoletta alla parmigiana, kids

Where in Italy is a great place for families to spend the Christmas holiday?

December 22, 2015 By wooweiduan Leave a Comment

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… 

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Filed Under: Children, Family, Food, footer, Holiday Tagged With: christmas, venezia, venice

6 easy recipes for a busy week

September 29, 2015 By wooweiduan Leave a Comment

The euphoria of having the kids back in school has worn off and the malaise of homework and the PTA has set in. The premonition of free time has been a mirage. Meal planning looks something like this at the beginning of the week: Monday: braised veal with risotto Tuesday: beef braised in Barolo with… 

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Filed Under: Children, Family, Food, footer Tagged With: easy meals, mid-week meals, quick meals

3 Steps to Plan the Perfect Italian Holiday

February 3, 2015 By wooweiduan Leave a Comment

Overcome the winter blues by planning a trip to Italy this year. Want to stay in a hotel characteristic of the area run by friendly locals who make you feel instantly at home? Nothing ruins a trip more than staying in a carbon-copy hotel in the wrong neighbourhood run by drones. Don’t miss out on… 

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Filed Under: Children, Family, footer, Holiday, Travel Tagged With: guide, hotels in italy, italian holiday, italian vacation

Top 8 reasons to visit a forgotten corner of Italy: Friuli-Venezia Giulia

January 20, 2015 By wooweiduan 2 Comments

Countryside in Friuli

Friuli-Venezia Giulia is an exotic part of Italy with a distinctive Slavic flair. The cuisine is unique in its extensive interweaving of sweet, savoury and spices such as gnocchi di susine (sweet plum dumplings) which are served as a first course, the same as pasta. The geography varies from crystal blue Alpine lakes and the… 

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Filed Under: Children, Family, Food, footer, Holiday, Travel, Wine Tagged With: cividale del friuli, collio, cormons, frico, friuli, friuli-venezia giulia, fruilano, gorizia, gravner, gubana, malvasia istriana, montasio, prosciutto, prosciutto di san daniele, putizza, ribolla gialla, strucchi, tocai fruilano, udine, white wine

One good reason to eat lasagne today

January 6, 2015 By wooweiduan Leave a Comment

Today is la Befana in Italy, otherwise known as the Epiphany. It marks the last of the 12 days of Christmas which begin on December 25th (Christmas Day). It is also a feast day to commemorate the visit of the Three Wise Men (Magi) to bring gold, frankincense and myrrh to the birth of Jesus… 

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Filed Under: Children, Food, footer, Holiday Tagged With: carbone, children, christmas, coal, epiphany, festivities, holidays, la befana, lasagne, wise men, witch

Where does the best olive oil come from?

November 17, 2014 By wooweiduan Leave a Comment

Olives and sharon fruit we picked

Now is the season in Italy when the olives have the highest content of oil, have a lower acidity and a milder flavour. This is precisely when they are picked and pressed into olive oil. Olive oil is used throughout Italy. This golden elixir has been held in high esteem since ancient times not only for… 

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Filed Under: Children, Food, footer, Travel Tagged With: baglietto & secco, le 3 case agriturismo, liguria, olive, olive oil, olives, press olive oil, recipe, torta verde

Why do people from 180 countries come to a village in Lombardia on the same day every year?

September 16, 2014 By wooweiduan 2 Comments

Collecting eggs

Every year around the 24th of June, people from 180 countries around the world convene at Solferino, a tiny town of 2,000 inhabitants south of Lake Garda in Lombardia.  Solferino is surrounded by farmland and has a beautiful Mantuan square, Piazza Castello (so named because there used to be an 11th century castle here). The… 

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The idyllic family holiday destination

July 29, 2014 By wooweiduan Leave a Comment

We took the boys and my father on a tour of northern Sardegna and found it to be, like many places in Italy, extremely family friendly. The location was potentially even more appealing to us because living in a large metropolis like Hong Kong, we were sensory deprived. Our ears were full of the sounds… 

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