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Recipe: Sweet & spicy grape focaccia
Serves 6 persons Ingredients: For the dough: 500g durum wheat flour 350ml lukewarm water 1 sachet instant yeast 1 tsp sugar 1 tsp salt 2 tsp ground cinnamon 1 tbsp sugar 2 tbsp olive oil For the...
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Recipe: Baked peaches au gratin
Serves 4 persons Ingredients: 4 large firm, but ripe peaches 100g savoiardi biscuits 80g softened butter 80g sugar 1 egg yolk 60g pine nuts 1 tsp cinnamon Slightly butter a baking dish. Wash the...
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My daily ration of fruit
Canteen facilities are one of my fringe benefits at work. Unfortunately, I find the canteen food unappetizing. I tried to eat there a couple of times in my early days but my taste buds were never...
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Recipe: Imbuljuta – chestnut and chocolate drink
Ingredients: 500g dried chestnuts Rind of 1 orange, in strips Rind of 2 tangerines, in strips 3 tblsp cocoa powder 100g dark chocolate (60% minimum cocoa) 5tblsp brown sugar 1 tsp ground cloves 1 tsp...
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Baked vanilla cheesecake
Under this leaden sky, stranded on the sofa, wrapped in multicolored fleece blankets, with a bleeding nose and a shortage of delightful food, I couldn’t help dreaming of a generous slice of this soft...
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Strawberry & white chocolate tiramisu
This metaphorical dessert can be prepared in so many varied ways that I wouldn’t mind having a differently flavored tiramisu on a daily basis. In that case, I bet my body would mind! I think I would...
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An anticipation of Summer: the cassata gelato
Now that the sun is poking us with its warm rays I suggest you try this refreshing and creamy recipe. The cassata gelato is a refurbished version of the typical cassata Siciliana. The sponge and...
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New Year hangover
I bid goodbye to 2012 with friends, booze, music and dancing, yes I said dancing! But I started the 2013 with a culinary fiasco. Humbly, but truly, it was the first time in many years, that I had...
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Pandolce, oh sweet bread
This cake is primarily prepared during the Christmas season in Genoa but it is even popular in the rest of the Liguria region, in Italy. In the United Kingdom, a similar version is known as Genoa cake....
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Ricotta zuccotto
This is what I made out of a craving for something spongy and gentle on the stomach. Ingredients: (these are approximate since the recipe was spontaneous) 400g ricotta 150g sugar 75g dark chocolate,...
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Blalen tal-gellewz inkaljat (Roasted hazelnut balls)
This is a Christmas recipe taken from my Mother’s diary where she recorded recipes from our childhood days. The flavor, smell and texture of these hazelnut balls bring so many nostalgic memories and...
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Bocci tat-tamal u l-biskutelli (Date and coconut balls)
Extract and recipe from my write-up which featured in Cibus magazine, the Christmas 2013 edition. Tea-time was again an overflow of food – turkey sandwiches, pastizzi, meringues, hazelnut balls,...
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