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Living a Life in Colour

a guide to Italian food, wine and culture

Torta di nocciole (hazelnut cake) – Piemonte

Torta di nocciole (hazelnut cake) – Piemonte   Print Prep time 15 mins Cook time 35 mins Total time 50 mins   It is difficult to believe that 3 ingredients can make such an amazing cake. Of course, as there are so few, the flavour of your hazelnuts will be the most important factor in… 

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Bunèt: Piedmontese chocolate amaretti creme caramel

February 28, 2017 By wooweiduan Leave a Comment

Piemonte is one of my favourite dessert destinations. Not only are they famous for their chocolate making skills but they have a mouthwatering range of desserts using local hazelnuts, almonds, eggs, cream and milk. These range from from peaches stuffed with amaretti, panna cotta, gianduia (a hazelnut chocolate spread), hazelnut cakes and biscuits, nougat, brut… 

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Cauliflower cheese: a firm family favourite

January 23, 2017 By wooweiduan 1 Comment

Cauliflower can be green

I remember as a child reading a series of Bunnicula books. It was a story about a vampire bunny (Bunnicula) that would suck all the juice out of vegetables, rendering them spookily white. Cauliflower was never my favourite as a child and while I have come around, even now it makes me think of vampire bunnies…. 

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Filed Under: Food, footer Tagged With: castelmagno, cauliflower, cheese, piemonte

Salone del Gusto 2016 – Not to be missed!

June 21, 2016 By wooweiduan Leave a Comment

The Mole Antonelliana, a major landmark in Turin housing a cinema museum, in miniature

I would be remiss to not share with you all what I think is one of the most important food events of all time. If you love food and drink, particularly Italian food and drink, don’t miss out on Salone del Gusto 2016, from 22 to 26 September in Turin. Salone del Gusto is a biannual event… 

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Filed Under: Food, footer, Holiday Tagged With: asio gusto, eataly, piedmont, piemonte, salone del gusto, slow food, torino, turin

And we win the award for…..

November 10, 2015 By wooweiduan Leave a Comment

The world's smallest truffle?

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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Filed Under: Food, footer, Holiday Tagged With: langhe, piedmont, piemonte, truffle, truffle fair alba, truffle hunting, white truffle

A recipe your mouth will thank you for

October 20, 2015 By wooweiduan Leave a Comment

So we are ostensibly in Piemonte to visit family and introduce the newest addition to the family. Fortune  has smiled on me as my husband’s family live very close to the one place the very rare and intoxicating white truffle (tuber magnatum pico) is found. While most people have heard of the chocolate truffle, a few cognoscenti know… 

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