Happy Cinco de Mayo! How are you going to mark the anniversary of the Battle of Puebla ? I’m in London, where all the cultures and nationalities meet. Sure, the British capital is not the obvious choice for Cinco de Mayo celebrations, but it’s one of the few places in the world where every community finds its space, …
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Hello folks, top of the morning to you, how ya goin? This is my very first Sunday post and me learning the slang. Useful English words and expressions, move away! I am right now impulsively drawn by slang and urban language. Last week I was in Italy to spend some good family time (with my sister, …
My Italian holidays are almost over – tomorrow morning I’ll be back home in London. Who knows how many clouds will welcome me. As you can see here, I’m saying goodbye with another Italian recipe, a pizza. But not the typical pizza, not wood oven pizza with its white soft dough and cute burnt bubbles at the corners. Not the pizza …
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I have recently told you about a new trend spreading very fast here in London: fusion food, a cuisine that mixes up elements of two or more different culinary cultures to create something original. Unless you find yourself mixing ingredients in the name of novelty rather than taste, it’s all good. And above all it is …
I might have written this already, Soba are just noodles, but on a different level. First of all they are made from buckwheat, secondly, they are tricky to manage. Plenty of water to rinse off all the starch they come with, this is what we need to tame a bunch of Soba noodles. Although I …
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What does a food blogger do when he or she is home alone? Uhm…. Any idea? Something like cooking and dealing with social media, I guess. What I do, instead, is making a mess. Please come on in and get a sneak peek at my place. I’ll show you what I am talking about when …
