Archive for October, 2007

Italian food is not junk food (shame on who thinks the opposite!)

Today I was still shaking for yesterday’s earthquake and I read a news that distracted me from thinking of faults (I was thinking of San Andreas and Calaveras fault not of my fault!). This news said that two “Italian” restaurants (I put the “…” because they think they are Italian but I’m sure they have [...]

Craving for healthy but good food? Let’s eat the Spinach Roll!

My dad’s favourite cook was his mother Lucia. Oh! Everything she touched was transformed in something “buonissimo” (ask my brother Alberto!). She had this talent that was impossible not to love her food. I hoped that this was a genetic talent , but no (sorry Damian!). So, coming back to my dad, his favorite food [...]

Ice cream disaster :-(

It was a nice and sunny day in California and we had invited our friends Carlo and Elizabeth for dinner. Everything was set and ready until we decided to prepare some ice cream as a dessert. In fact, we wanted to use for the first time our new ice cream maker. We had a bunch [...]

“What can I do with leeks?” and… “Leeks are our friends”

Leeks, the vegetables that tastes like a onion, are not a secret anymore! Usually I was walking in the supermarket with my mom and I never knew why that ‘white with strange strong green leaves’ exists in the world. And know I have the answer…. Once I tasted the leeks soup I cannot go [...]

What’s better than pizza?

Pizza is my favorite food of all! I could eat pizza everyday without ever getting bored.
Pizza is such a common food (especially in the western countries) that everyone should know how to make it. What do you eat at parties? Pizza! What is the food that the kids like? Pizza! What’s a famous Italian food? [...]