Try this, and then this, and then this. Which one do you like best? Sage, marjoram, rosemary? You don’t know how to decide! Maybe it’s better to try again. Here’s what happens if you bring a steaming basket of aromatic herb cookies on the table. Everyone is happy to...
Many are the rites of passage towards spring. The first walks without jacket or the skirts without socks despite the pungent air. The visit to the florist to dress up terraces and gardens, the afternoons at sea to put your feet in the water or that trip out of town to...
This is the recipe my granny used to prepare as soon as huge boxes of fresh artichokes arrived from our farmer of Albenga (btw in Albenga the best ever Italian Riviera artichokes grow!). Before starting to clean for the whole afternoon tons of artichokes that would...
Fava beans pesto has been occupying a line in my “post to do” list since last year. It appeared on April, when this blog was just a work in progress, nothing more than a bunch of ruffled ideas on my mind and on a notebook. The Summer came, and Autumn too. The ideas...
Today I was scrolling an old cook book of my granny on Liguria traditional cuisine, “Mandilli de saea” written by Franco Accame. This is a very nice cook book, with carefully selected traditional recipes, no food photos but very funny illustrations, where the author...
