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Domenica ~ Colazione

For sunday brunch, I decided it was finally time to make something interesting… I picked up chestnut flour at the coop last week     Chestnut flour from Garfagnana and have been wanting to make this easy ricotta     Turns out castagnaccio goes well with ricotta, and with all the rosemary just outside my [...]

How do you say Pickle in Italian?

Pickles are one of my absolute favorite foods. Funny, because I hate cucumbers. I was the only one in my family that liked pickles. Whenever we went to McDonalds, before the chicken mcnugget days, I got all my brothers’ pickles. I hated Burger King because they could order their burgers “ketchup only” … I was [...]

pollo fritto

I had planned to make this yesterday, and had started marinating the breast in the morning, but having ended up with the car for an extra day, i decided to make use of that and go to the gym last night instead. So today, after getting the car to the rental place in Lucca at [...]

vespi!

Couldn’t get a very well focused photo, but this was the nest the evil wasps came out of. Now, it is ashes in my fireplace.

vondelpark

bagatelle

Concours de roses nouvelles 2010

no gmail in germany!

Funny…

cena a milano

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