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Vegan and dairy free chocolate-pumpkin cake
TORTA VEGANA AL CIOCCOLATO E ZUCCA (ITALIANO) This extra moist chocolate, pumpkin cake, topped with chocolate ganache is a perfect fall treat. It´s so easy and quick to prepar. Chocolate and pumpkin seems like an odd combination, but trust me, it really works. The ultra rich chocolate cake melds so perfectly with the warming spices…
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What’s the difference between all the types of salt? (Part I)
QUAL’E’ LA DIFFERENZA TRA I VARI TIPI DI SALE? (parte 1) Everyday when we go shopping at the supermarket we find various types of salt, and everyone of them got a different health properties. Many of us don’t even notice it, others think it’s just a marketing factor, many people don’t even care .. But…
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Eggplant Parmigiana
PARMIGIANA DI MELANZANE (ITALIANO) One of the most famous and appreciated dishes of Italian cuisine, especially out of the country is the Eggplant Parmigiana. It is a classic Italian dish made with thinly sliced, floured and fried eggplant layered with tomato sauce and cheese and baked in the oven. A lot of regions in Italy…
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Classic Ragù Bolognese
RAGU’ BOLOGNESE (ITALIANO) This Classic Bolognese Sauce is made using all the authentic ingredients like beef, pork, tomato purée, then cooked low and slow for hours to develop a rich, hearty taste. I’ve already spoken about its history and the best tips for making it in this POST. The original recipe it’s been deposited to…
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Ragù Bolognese: the original recipe and its history.
RAGU’ BOLOGNESE: Storia e ricetta originale (ITALIANO) Hello guys. Today it’s me, Pasquale, who is writing and I would like to talk about about Bolognese ragù. Widespread throughout Emilia, not only in Bologna, it is one of the best-known Italian cuisine recipes abroad, more elaborated and, unfortunately, mistreated. I’m just thinking of the unhappy pairing…
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Pizza di scarole (escarole pie)
PIZZA DI SCAROLE (ITALIANO) It is well known in the world that Italians love food and when there is a holiday to celebrate this love grows beyond measure! One of the things that I love that my mom and my grandmother always use to prepare for lunch on 24th of December, so on Christmas’s eve,…
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Graffe Napoletane (Neapolitan Doughnuts)
GRAFFE NAPOLETANE (ITALIANO) Naples is in my opinion one of the most beautiful cities in the world: culture, entertainment, history and of course food. The summer nights, walking through the streets in Naples, at Mergellina seafront and the inevitable GRAFFA NAPOLETANAor ZEPPOLA FRITTA. Soft, fragrant and melting in the mouth, our graffe are a sin…
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Profiteroles
PROFITTEROL (ITALIANO) “Happy mother’s day!“ One of my mother’s favorite desserts are the Profiteroles, very famous cream puffs filled with Chantilly cream, covered with a tasty and shiny chocolate glaze. At my home in Italy they were often the Sunday dessert and for this reason I decided to prepare them to celebrate Mother’s Day in…
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What is a ganache and how to make one?
COME FARE UNA GANACHE (ITALIANO) The ganache is the queen of pastry creams. It is an emulsion of solid chocolate melted in cream sometimes with butter added. An emulsion is mixture of two liquids that would not normally mix, cream and chocolate in our case. That is to say, a mixture of two immiscible liquids.…
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How to make the perfect homemade caramel
COME FARE IL CARAMELLO (ITALIANO) When we cook we are starting many chemical reactions. Probably the most fascinating is the caramelization, a sugar transformation reaction. Basically is the oxidation of sugar. The process of caramelization starts with the melting of the sugar at high temperatures (160 ° C) where the sugars starts to liquefy. Its…
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