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Living a Life in Colour

a guide to Italian food, wine and culture

Picnic season food: pasta frittata

August 8, 2017 By wooweiduan 2 Comments

Young children and summer holidays involve some degree of planning to keep it stress-free. I don’t know about you but summer holidays for me go something like this: kids get up, eat breakfast, slowly pull on their clothes and then are bouncing off the walls, desperate to get out of the house. I inevitably make… 

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Filed Under: Family, Food, footer Tagged With: frittata, frittata di maccheroni, frittata di pasta, omelette, pasta, picnic, punch

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

Need a gift idea for Father’s Day?

June 16, 2015 By wooweiduan Leave a Comment

Wondering what to give your father for Father’s Day? The recipe below is great for small children (they are great at picking leaves) and adults alike to prepare, does not take much time and is a homemade gift from the heart that will remind him how loved he is each time he uses it. It… 

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Filed Under: Family, Food, footer, Parenting Tagged With: father's day, gift, herbs, italian seasoning

Happy Mother’s Day!

May 5, 2015 By wooweiduan Leave a Comment

Ricotta pancakes with honey, figs and almonds

Mother’s Day (Festa della mamma) is quickly approaching in many parts of the world, including Italy on May 10th. This day is dedicated to the lady who survived many a sleepless night to care for you when sick, prioritised you before herself, always turned a sympathetic ear when life seemed bleak, cheered you on through every… 

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Filed Under: Family, Food, footer, Parenting Tagged With: bill granger, festa della mamma, mothers day, mothersday, ricotta pancake recipe, viva la mamma

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

What do Italians eat for Christmas?

December 2, 2014 By wooweiduan Leave a Comment

  Italian holiday foods are often symbolic as well as delicious. Dishes served on the day before a religious festival such as Christmas Eve, known as La Vigilia, are meant to purify the body before the rich holiday foods.   The Christmas season starts in Italy on 6 December with the birthday of Saint Nicola… 

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Filed Under: Family, Food, footer, Holiday Tagged With: christmas, christmas eve, epiphany, feast of the immaculate conception, fish, la befana, la vigilia, lasagna, saint nicola, santa lucia

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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Filed Under: Children, Family, Food, footer, Holiday Tagged With: battle of solferino, bigoli al torchio, bollito misto, capunsei, castiglione di stievere, due cavellini, Franz Joseph I, henry dunant, hostaria viola, le sorgive, le volpe, mantova, mantua, napoleon iii, palazzo ducale, piazza castello, red cross, risotto alla pilota, salamella mantovana, sbrisolona, solferino, tenute le sorgive, tortelli di zucca, vittorio emanuele iii

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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