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My Greek dinner: rice pudding
It took me two weeks, but finally I can show you the Greek dessert I made for my Greek dinner with friends for Valentine’s Day. It was such a long time I wanted to make the rice pudding again, one of...
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Melktert – Milk Tart from South Africa
Four years ago, Italy was the football world champion, and summer was marked by an hypnotic chorus, beated by the joy of a completely unexpected success: po, po ro po po po pooooo po, po, po ro po po...
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Experiment with agar agar: strawberry pudding
Indulge yourself. Sounds good, isn’t it? Round and soft. Pamper yourself, take care of yourself. It is not necessary to have had a bad day to take some time for yourself and find your own little...
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Pork sirloin with milk and white truffle
Last week, looking for a meat recipe to enrichen with truffles, I went back in memories to a typical Sunday morning of a few years ago… one of the many wintry Sunday mornings spent in San Gimignano,...
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Galaktoboureko – a Greek phyllo custard pie and my love for Greece!
Once in a while I feel like Greece, I feel one of those cravings deeply rooted in your stomach that makes you leaf through a written and bookmarked guide, daydreaming. How many times have I been to...
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My Canelés de Bordeaux and my Carnival fancy dresses
Today is the last day of Carnival, Mardi Gras. In my own julsian calendar (that is the calendar made in my image and likeness) this means that there are just a few hours to go before I can say with...
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Matcha Creme Brulé
This is just a quick post to let you know that our G2Kitchen Spring Issue is on line! Unfortunately we won’t translate it into English this time, even though you can enjoy the freshest pictures we...
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Home made goat ricotta cheese and roasted fruit
Everytime a child says I don’t believe in fairies, there’s a a little fairy somewhere that falls down dead. Peter Pan. When you stop believing in a dream, it happens the same thing. A fairy dies, a...
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Mum, could you buy me a rice tartlet? The Italian rice pudding tartlets
I like San Gimignano in the early morning, when it is still not crowded with tourists, when you see the local people passing along the streets almost incredulous to have San Gimignano for themselves,...
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Carnival rice fritters
Siena, outdoor location shots, winter. The Sienese people, the University students and the few tourists that in this time of the year are forced to pass through the tiny shadowy back lanes usually tuck...
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Sponge roll with chocolate to celebrate 4 years of blogging
Disclaimer. In this post I’m talking in third person of two different me, Giulia and Juls. I’m not going nuts. Just wanted to let you know… When four years ago I wrote the first post, no picture and no...
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Bread pudding cake for breakfast
I used to imagine my life as a single woman in my new house a little bit different. I would have chosen freely and sometime randomly my lunches and dinners, maybe one day guacamole and tortillas, the...
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A marbled ciambellone for breakfast
You might have already noticed from my Facebook, Twitter and Instagram, but hey, I’m back! and I am bursting with new energy and ideas, I am a little bit more conscious of who I am and where I want to...
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My grandma’s crème caramel to celebrate one year of Italian table Talk
If there’s one thing the Italians know how to do properly, well this is celebrating, whether it is the patron saint of a town, the centuries-old great-grandmother’s birthday, a wedding with a cascade...
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A gelato a day for the Italian Table Talk
Before mobile phones, before text messages and before Skype, when I used to go on holidays at the seaside with my parents, my uncles and my cousin for the month of August, there was a ritual that...
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A family recipe, my grandma’s choux pastries
Nonna Marcella, my grandma, oh she passed me so many recipes, either chatting lightly at the table, over a perfectly stewed rabbit trying to explain me why it was to tender and flavourful, or standing...
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5 years of blogging, would you believe it? Let’s celebrate with a special...
Five years ago I wrote the first post. Five years ago I still lived at home with my parents, in the attic at the top of the kitchen stairs, there was still Kira around, proudly guarding the garden from...
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Chocolate and semolina tart to celebrate Easter and a new book I’m working on!
I got off at the right stop of the metro, I walked for a while along that unknown street in Milan and I started thinking that maybe I had taken the wrong direction. She told me that I would have...
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Grab your spoon. Chocolate pudding
In how many ways can you eat your dessert? You can stuff your mouth with chocolates and pralines, tiny puff pastries and tartlets overfilled with custard, meringue kisses, cookies and biscotti or...
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A virtual baby shower for Emiko: a sponge cake with custard and chocolate
Probably 50 years ago we would live all in the same neighbourhood and we would meet regularly for our book club or for cozy afternoon teas. We would play card games in winter and we would gather for...
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