♥ Today it's baking time!

Hi all, I found this excelent and really yummy recipe on Pinterest.

I wanted to try immediatly and I have to admit that the recipe is brilliant, perfect, very accurate. It's really easy peasy to bake these rolls, they're even simple to make!

Here the fantastic recipe: Delicious Dinner Rolls.

♥ Sugar cookies -part 2

♥ Choccolate Cake

Mmm so yummy! Do you want the recipe? Today I gonna give you the recipe in Italian!

TORTA CIOCCOLATINO "Clio"

200 cioccolato fondente
150 zucchero
2 cucchiai farina
4 uova
100 burro

Mescola tuorli con zucchero molto bene poi aggiungere farina. A parte sciogliere il burro e il cioccolato. In una ciotola montare gli albumi a neve lasciandoli un pochino di liquido e metti un pizzico di sale. Mescolare i 3 composti e inforna 30/35 min a 200°.

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♥ baby shower

Eventually I had Giulio's baby shower just in time, I mean, he was born 3 weeks in advance so just 5 days after his shower. I enjoyed so much arranging everything and also the party was really cute and was so nice to meet so many good girlfriends of mine. It was a really good laugh afternoon.

I love so much to organize party I'd like to do that such as second job/hobby!!! :-)

♥ cookies by smitten kitchen

Hey hey hye! Yes, I currently have a sweet tooth, I do love loads of differents cakes and sweet and I have been so lucky to find this sweet blog: Smitten Kitchen.

It'a a stunning web site where you can find a delicious mix of photos and recipes. All you find is come from a tiny kitchen in New York City. all recipes are come with tutorials on everything so it's very easy to make them.

Here my pinch:
Crispy, Chewy Chocolate Chip Cookies.

The secret of these cookies? Don't overbake them!

Conversion: here and here

♥ cooking school: delicious lemon cake

Good morning everyone! I started my week in a right sweet way this morning and trust me ... it's wonderfull to wake up like that: I had 2 slices of this yummy and gorgeous lemon cake! I couldn't help to have just one ...
I baked that yestarday afternoon, it was the first time I made this cake using this recipe and ... OMG it was a fantastic surprise: it's 100% delicious and easy make as well.

Here the recipe, try baking and let me know how the result will be.

Time baking: 30'
Difficulty: easy peasy,lemon squeezy!

♥ cooking school: singapore noodles

Just finished cooking this delicious and beautiful plate. it was very easy to made and the taste is brilliant.

Ingredients

250g rice vermicelli noodles
vegetable oil
150g pork fillets , cut into strips
12 raw peeled tiger prawns
3 garlic cloves , crushed
2cm piece ginger , grated
1 onion , cut into thin half moons
1 red pepper , sliced
2 tsp curry powder
300g bean sprouts
4 tbsp soy sauce
1 bunch fresh chives , chopped
4 eggs , beaten
2 red chillies , sliced
2 limes , quartered

Direction:

1.Soak the noodles following the packet instructions and drain. Heat some oil in a wok and fry the pork until it is browned and just cooked through, tip onto a plate. Add the prawns and fry until cooked. Rinse out the wok.
2.Add a little oil to the wok and fry the garlic and ginger until light brown. Add the onion and pepper and cook until just beginning to soften, then add the spices and cook for a minute. Add the bean sprouts, noodles and about 2 tbsp water and toss everything together.
3.Add the soy sauce, some seasoning and chives and stir for another minute. Push the noodles to one side of the wok and drop in the eggs. Cook, stirring for 1 minute then stir through the noodles.
4.For the veggies, turn half the noodles on to a large plate. For the non-veggies, toss the pork and prawns through the rest and tip onto a separate plate. Serve both with sliced chillies sprinkled on top and lime wedges to squeeze over.

It's suitable for 6 person.

This recipe is by bbc

♥ drin drin in portobello

Hi all,

I decided to add a yummy post today. I bumped into this fantastic gelateria just last weekend and I was first really impressed about the design of the shop and the graphic they have used about brand, sign, packaging and all paper stuff. After that I couldn't help to taste the icecream and ... it was heavenly! OMG!!! It was so soft, delicate, creamy ... such a delicacy!

DrinDrin is located in the heart of Portobello Market right next door to the Electric Cinema (189 Portobello Road London W11 2ED) and it's open every day till late (11 p.m.).

When I got home I immediately checked thier website and it seems they spent a great deal of time to create recipes from most refined artisanal Italian tradition, the gelato is completely natural. They try to avoid emulsifiers and non-natural thickeners. You can taste gelato or sorbetti as well.

If you are are around don't miss it!!!

Visit also http://www.dridrigelato.com/

♥ fresh watermelon juice

Hi all, it's hot and i'm dreaming of watermelon juice!! There is nothing better than a refreshing Watermelon drink to beat the summer heat. This recipe is easy to prepare too and everyone would love it.

Ingredients
1 little seedless watermelon, peeled, coarsely chopped
1 lime juice
cubes of ice
1 tbsp sugar (if you want)

Preparation
Blend the pieces of watermelon and lime juice in a blender until smooth (few seconds). Add the ice cudes in the blender and mix for just a minute more.



Enjoy the summer.

♥ recipe card maker

I just find this amazing tool, it's a generetor of card repipes. Next time you want to share a recipe to a friend, try printing out recipe cards using this tool Skip To My Lou's recipe card maker. You can choose different layouts and the size too. It's really a cute way to pas your recipes to friends.

Here on the left my first recipe card I made ready to share with you:

♥ tagliatelle ai funghi!! Enjoy tagliatelle and also this tool!!

♥ tapas night

Here my last supper, I don't know why but I love the little food, finger food, all food you can pinch and which food is as perfect as tapas??!. I bet with my boyfriend, we had a competition on SPANISH TAPAS. It was a really good night!! we bought lots of ingredient and Spanish wine as well and we started to make our 3 tapas per each! On the left you can see my tapas: croquettas, mozzarella frita, toast with eggs, tuna and ali&oli, everything was really yummy. He made patatas brava whit chilli souce, bacalao fritos and stuffed pimientos. Who won? .... it was a very hard decision, everything was good, tasty and high quality food. Eventualy both of them were winners!

the ingredients?? Best quality, low cost and good fun!!

♥ cooking school: chicche della nonna

♥ Ingredients
1 kg. potatoes
300 gr. ricotta
300 gr. flour

200 gr. spinach
150 gr. parmesan

1 egg

a bit of salt

♥ To dress: butter, a little onion, cream, salt and tomatos. On the top a dusting of parmesan.

♥ Instruction:
Boil the potatos and remove the peel. Boil the spinach and mince thinly them. Take a bowl and put into ricotta, egg, spinach tritati and parmesan and mix them together properly. Add salt in case it needs. Add the crumble potatos and flour too. You should get a pretty tough dough. Take a piece od dough and roll it till getting a long cylinder wide like a finger then you can cut it in a little pieces, pass them into the flour and put them on a tray.

Chicche are now ready to be cooked!! Now it's time to prepare the souce and it's pretty easy: fried the onion with butter, add the tomato souce and let it cooks for 10 minutes. Turn away from the stove and add the cream mixing.

Boil water (add some salt but not add oil!!) and drop the chicche into. When they'll lift on the top of the water they are ready to be dried, it takes quite short time.

Dry and put in a bowl the chicche, now add the souce and stir softly. Dress them with a dusting of parmesan on the top. Yummy!!!

Enjoy your chicche, they will be delicious for sure"

♥ cooking school: hummus

I'm going on holiday next days so I wanna leave to you a special recipe I love: Hummus.

It is quite popular throughout the Middle East and Northern Africa but also in Europe especially in London (where I tasted it first). Usually I eat it with pita but it's also great with raw carrots, celery, and cauliflower. My version is spicier than most (I love chilli pepper, you know!!) and uses more lemon juice than most. This recipe is from an elderly Lebanese woman so I'm sure enought it's good.

As you can notice it's really easy to make: preparetion time takes around 10 minutes and trust me it's a delicacy.

Ingredients:
♥ 1 16 oz. can chick peas; drained and well-rinsed
♥ 1/4 c tahini (sesame paste)
♥ 2 lg. cloves garlic; chopped
♥ 5 Tbsp. fresh lemon juice (about two lemons)
♥ 1/5 cup olive oil
♥ 1 tsp. coarse salt
♥ 1 tsp. ground cumin
♥ 1/8 tsp. cayenne pepper
♥ 1/5 cup warm water

Preparation:

1. Place all ingredients except water in a food processor and process for about 2 minutes.

2. Remove lid and scrape down sides. Add water and process briefly again. Scrape down sides. The mixture should be somewhat coarse and not quite runny. Add a bit more water if needed.

3. Refrigerate for four hours to allow flavors to meld. The consistency will thicken to a firm paste.

Enjoy your hummus.

♥ St. Valentine's day- round 3 - cooking school

This morning the suggestion I'd like to give you is about Valentine's dinner. I mean, we could take this occasion to stay close with our parter and have with him/her a special/cute dinner. One of my favorite recipe is flan, all types of flan usually look so small, tender and cute, basically they are delicacies of the food world. I choose this recipe as starter: Prawns and porcini flan. Prawns are quite

♥ INGREDIENTS
Flan:
6 prawns, peeled
100 gr Porcini Mushrooms
a bit of butter
1 ½ tablespoons extra virgin olive oil
half glass of white wine
1 cloves of garlic (don't worry you don't smell of it and garlic is so aphrodisiac!!)
2 eggs
a bit of parsley
nutmeg, salt and pepper

Sauce:
bechamel
100 GR grated Parmigiano Reggiano cheese
salt and pepper

♥ PREPARATION
Bechamel Sauce: Heat up your pre made bechamel with a bit of milk , away from the heat add the grated Parmesan cheese stirring to amalgamate and also salt and pepper.

To prepare the flan: sauté the sliced mushrooms in oil and a nut of butter with a garlic clove, nugmet, salt and pepper. Remove the garlic clove when golden-brown. Mix together the 2 prawns, mushrooms, 3/4 of the sauce, the egg yolk, grated Parmesan cheese, a bunch of parsley and mix everything. Add the whipped white eggs to the mixture.
Put into the cupcake pans and bake in the oven for 10 minutes (180°) till they are cooked. Turn over the flan on the plate and cover with the left bechamel sauce. Embellish with the left praws and some teeny piece of parsey.

Enjoy your meal!!

♥ St. Valentine's day- round 2

I've just found this crunchy idea on a really cute and italian yummy blog. This could be a grat idea to start better your St.Valentine's day. Let me remind you... having coffee every morning with your partner is something special to me. Anyway you could make your Valentine' rise cuter following this easy cuddle.

Make shortcrust pastry and the trick is : to cut the rolled dough with the same shape of your heart coffee-cup (obiouvsly you need to buy it previously!).

♥ INGREDIENTS:

300 gr flour
150 gr butter
100 gr sugar
1 yolk
1 whole eggs
a bit of lemon peel
a bit of salt
half of teaspoon of baking powder

About direction you can see this past post: cookies.

Isn't it so cute??

♥ cooking school: scones with raisin

I've just collected this recipe right a couple of days ago and I had to try and taste scones immediatly. I first tasted these rolls such as breakfast in London with jam and a cup of fresh tea in a stunning coffee in Angel and they are as yummy as I had them once a week (honestly i fatted a lot in these 4 months and I know perfectly why!!). Basically they remeber me a wonder period of my life so I definitely LOVE them. They are a mix of sweet cookies and sail bread, at least they aren't too sweet and this is a really good point to me. This recipe is brilliant, the taste of these scones is heavenly and so delicious, it's preventable to say. It's aslo very easy and fast to make them.

INGREDIENTS:

♥ 500 gr flour

♥ 2 tablespoons white sugar

♥ 2 tablespoons baking powder

♥ 110 gr butter

♥ 300 ml milk

♥ 160 gr raisin

♥ 1 whole egg

INSTRUCTION:

Mix together in a bowl flour, sugar, baking powder and crumble the little piece of butter embending with the tip of your fingers. Add the raisin too and mix. Then put milk in the middle and knead the mixture till dough is not more sticky.

Strech the dough on a plane with the rolling pin getting 3 cm height. Make circle shapes of 5cm width and put them very close among them (2mm) in a baking tin. Brush the rolls with shaked egg and bake them for 15-20 minute at 200° C till getting gilding top. Finally remove and separe them from the baking tin and make them cold on a grill. You just get your scones!

You can serve the scones hot and with several jams.

Click here to get the recipe

Enjoy your weekend baking scones!

♥ Cooking School: food, photography and more

Just found this cute and yummy blog thanks to my closest friend Cecilia: cavoletto di bruxelles. It's a blog about food and delicious recipes but also about photos and trips! As you already know I'm a buff of cooking and I LOVE the style life photos so this blog has suddently become one of my favorite one!

The blogger, Sigrid, is addicted of food of course but also is a self-taught photographer and on her blog you can find thousands of recipes with stunning photos of that food. Unfortunately it's just in Italian but she has written some books in other languages as well!

I suggest to visit this blog, it is really amazing! I've baked her scones such yestarday.... bang! They are so exquisite!! If you need of translation, I could help you!

I wanna try all oriental recipes from this blog! I'll be back to you soon telling my feedbacks.

Actually I'm dying starvation now!!

♥ Cooking School: anolini

Last Saturday was so freezing I decided to cook broth just to warm up myself! Outside it was totally white because it was a big snowfall during the past night, the city is so beautiful today, the atmosphere you can breathe is amazing, supermerry, cute and so paceful & relaxing. Anyway ... I can miss eating the broth with anolini, the traditional and local stuffed pasta. to do them you need of the right shape to cut them, if you don't have chance to get it you can use some circle shapewith diameter of 2 cm.

Here my granmother's recipe:

♥ Pasta

500 g flour

5 eggs

♥ Stuffing

400 gr grated parmesan cheese

150 gr grated dried bread

souce of overcooked meat

a bit of nutmeg

a bit of pepper

4 eggs

Buon appetito!!!

PS: if you need more details please don't hesitate to ask me.

♥ Cooking School: tiramisù

Here just for you a really yummy recipe to "warm up" yourself a bit in these very freezing days.
Tiramisù usually is quite heavy and seems fat, well, this recipe is very light and tempting. My guests usually ask me for one more slice and this makes me happy of course!!
About savoiardi: you can find them in all Italian food shops or in a lot of markets.

Ingredients - Serves 84 eggs
4 tablespoons granulated sugar
500 grams of mascarpone
1 cup italian coffee
300 grams of savoiardi (biscuits)
1 bunch bitter cocoa

Directions:1.Beat yolk eggs with sugar, when they will be swollen add the mascarpone mixing very well.
2.Whisk 2 white eggs with the mixerand add it to the mixture. Please keep attention at this step!!! Fold in gently.
3.Put the coffee in a plate, sugar it and add 3 tablespoons of water. Dip into the coffee the savoiardo just 2 seconds (it must be soaked but not full of liquid!!) and put it into the pan. Do the same with all other savoiardos and make a layer on the bottom of the pan.
4.Add half of the cream on the first layer of biscuits and cover againg with another layer of soaked savoirados. Cover with the rest of the cream.
5.Dust on the top with bitter cocoa and put on the fridge for a minimum of 2 hours before serving.
6.Now taste it and let me know!!! it's amazing, promise!!!

Tiramisù is a quintessential recipe in italian cuisine. Try it with a glass of PASSITO wine... All too perfect!

♥ Cooking School: just aperitivo

Yestarday I invited some colleagues @ home for a easy dinner. We had really good time and I prepared lots of starters and more. I set the table with an old grey tablecloth from my granmother, used my special dinner set and some nice table napkins by Ikea! I used also a really lovely white Richerd Ginori plats.

Anyway, I LOVE laying the table with some special things and this time I make some really cute flag to put on the top of my mini sandwiches and of course I made by myself these flags! I LOVE DIY!!

I found this such so cute file to downoload and print on this nice blog: morning by foley and imediatly I printed it and handmade these small and cute flags. Actually it was really easy to make and they seemed really great!

Finally we have a great night!