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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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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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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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Peanut Butter Mousse Crunch Cake
TORTA CROCCANTE AL BURRO DI ARACHIDI E CIOCCOLATO (ITALIANO) This Saturday we’ve have been invited for dinner by our friends Mario and Fabio, two friends from Milan, Italy who have lived in Sydney since 3 years now. Pizza will be the Queen of the night but I need to think about a dessert. What should…
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Traditional White Bread
PAN BAULETTO (ITALIANO) Soft and fragrant, excellent with salty or sweet toppings, the soft and fragrant white bread lends well to the preparation of toasts and sandwiches. Making it at home is really simple and in addition to having the guarantee of a fresh product, we will not be forced to smell the typical smell…
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Spaghetti alla Nerano
SPAGHETTI ALLA NERANO (ITALIANO) Campania is one of the most beautiful Italian regions and one of the most loved destinations by the world jet-set, especially for Australians. The absolute jewel of the region is the Amalfi Coast, a stretch of coast located south of the Sorrento Peninsula that overlooks the Gulf of Salerno and has…
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