Delicious 2022

Hello! Are you ready for a delicious 2022?Follow us, try our small culinary tips and enjoy moments of conviviality with us by cooking inspiring recipes for your family and dearest ones. Welcome everyone and all the best for a new safe year 2022 ahead!

Fourth Sunday of Advent

This early morning it was still dark outside when we lit the fourth candle of Advent up.

Tredje advent

God morgon och glad Lucia till alla ❤

From the page dedicated to Stockholm Photography Gallery

Julmarknad i Gamla Stan It was during one of my first visits to Stockholm that I had the pleasure to enjoy a beautiful walk in the lovely mesmerising Christmas market in Gamla Stan. I won’t tell the reader about the cosy Christmas atmosphere you can feel in the air. You’ve got to experience it. So,…

Short pastry and season fruit to start this first December week

Grey sky upon the first weekend of Advent. In these days, leaves are turning yellow and golden and, slowly, light as delicate petals, they are falling from the trees. On the other hand, it was gorgeous time for starting to decor with warm lights and green balsamic fragranced branches of Abies. Besides, there was a…

From the Project Page: In the Kitchen Garden – Flowers, Vegetables and Quotes

November Sunday in the garden Sweet vanilla persimmons up on the tree are getting ripe and zucchini flowers are to be picked: they long for being filled with creamy ricotta cheese, tiny strips of pistacchio mortadella, chopped green olives and then fried in extra virgin olive oil. Are you interested and would you like to…

From the Project: In the Kitchen Garden – Flowers, Vegetables and Quotes

November arrived with the soft glistening lights of candles and this little bright flowers that filled the heart with marvel. Wishing everybody a beautiful November!

Pot roasted shoulder of lamb: when the dishes of tradition talk

Welcome in the kitchen! Last weekend, during a long beautiful driving up to the hills in the heart of Apulia region, there was time for a visit at a good local butcher’s, where they served me a tender piece of shoulder of lamb filled with a typical local artisan salumi called “capocollo” and “caciocavallo podolico”…

From the Project: In the Kitchen Garden – Flowers, Vegetables and Quotes

It was this morning when I caught this view of the zinnias flowers in the garden. They are still there, beautiful in their lively brightness and tall in their daring effort to reach for the sky. I saved the seeds for the next good season. Would you save the seeds of your efforts for the…

Recipe for good bread

The new week started with checking the bread dough left to rest for a night.Indeed, the next morning, the bread dough seemed to have that peculiar bubbly fluffiness for making a well done bread. It only needed little time and work of kneading more and, of course, ingredients inside play a relevant role. – What…

The cosy feeling of a faba beans purée

Hello October! The week is painted with the golden colors of Autumn and one of the most prepared dishes at this time of the year, according to my family tradition, is a delicious creamy faba beans purée. Simple ingredients to make a tasteful recipe that requests an easy way of execution, which can be also…

From the Project: In the Kitchen Garden – Flowers, Vegetables and Quotes

A new harvest of tomatoes in the garden on October 5th: 1491gr after two more weeks. When we chose and sowed the seeds of tomatoes in the last late June, we couldn’t ask for better results, about 1 kg tomatoes every 2 weeks. It is a blessed tomatoes season! We are going to keep tomatoes…

Kanelbullens dag

“What would you do on October 4th, if you were in Stockholm?”- one might say. If I were in the city today, no matter for the grey sky and the rain (it is Autumn though!), I certainly would’t miss to visit one of my preferred places, where the good fragrances of butter, cinnamon and cardamom…

From the Kitchen Garden Page – Flowers, Vegetables and Quotes

From a crisp rosemary schiacciata to a millefoglie made of green

After a long very hot Summer, which made us long for appetizing fresh salads, thirst-quenching drinks and creamy fruit ice creams, now it is time again for delicious dishes that make us feel the warm, cosy welcome of the Autumn season. For those, who love the good fragrance of a just home-baked potato focaccia or…

Let the sunflowers shine of their own light

This week sunflowers started blooming in the garden, so I enjoyed catching their bright smile and infinite beauty. What kind of flowers would you like to have into your own garden?

In the Kitchen Garden – Flowers, Vegetables and Quotes

According to the wise farmer’s September rules: “An autumn that is warm and clear is good for next year.”Do you agree with this old saying? Wishing everybody a good start in the new September week ❤

The right time for the Piennolo tomato harvesting

Good news from the kitchen garden! Finally the time for harvesting the cherry “ciliegino” and the small heart-shaped “piennolo” tomatoes arrived. To have 826 gr tomatoes all together in a boat plate in the same morning was like a welcome gift. Both of the two varieties have a sweet taste and they offer a number…

A new page: In the garden – flowers, vegetables and quotes

Work in progress in the kitchen garden, puntarelle chicory and grilled tomatoes.

It was a very long, hot week. In Italy, people just celebrated “Ferragosto” and are still enjoying their holidays. In the meanwhile, the kitchen garden calls for some work in progress.

A bouquet of Zinnia flowers in bloom for our fresh Summer tastes

It keeps on being so hot in these Summer days and, in the garden, now it is the turn for a bouquet of beautiful zinnias to bloom one after an other. When, in the early morning, zinnias showed their spectacular palette of colors up to the sky, to take pictures of their smooth, shining beauty…

Summer, the kitchen garden, home produces and small fresh delicacies

Hello, welcome in August! Despite the very high temperatures, I keep on taking care of my kitchen garden early in the morning. At this proper, it is about the same place where I used to play as a little child. At that time, the garden seemed so big to me, it was characterized by green…

A soft fragrant cake as Summer dessert!

Hello! We are in the heart of Summer and at this time of the year, by visiting our food stores and markets, it is possible to find gorgeous fragrant Williams pears there. This ancient variety is widely known to be excellent for canned or processed uses. So, let’s bake a cake, which has the fresh taste of Summer and the soft intense spiced fragrance of cocoa and cardamom.

What’s in the picnic basket for your Summer hiking?

Hello! It is getting really hot in these days and finally, after a long period of “staying at home”, there is a plenty of opportunities to catch and go hiking. Of course we have to choose also among nice cozy places in the middle of nature, where to sit and enjoy our “déjeuner sur l’herbe”….

Spaghetti dish, the European football championship and Summer season

Hello! Summer season is at the door, we enjoy the European football championship and we love pasta. These are the three main ingredients for our special dish made with spaghetti and a convivial “al fresco”dining. Let’s start with frying some fresh bacon or speck in a pan without using oil. Leave the fat to heat…

Shall we make a zucchini tart?

Hello! On this second week of June we are going to bake a tasteful zucchini tart, which perhaps would turn to be a delightful appetizer for our Summer “al fresco” dinners in the verandah with family and friends or a fantastic snack for the children. Let’s do it! As for the ingredients to make the…

Crisp single crust polenta pie topped with broccoli, sausage and sweet Tropea onion. It tastes so good!

Then, it is the turn for steamed broccoli. You can watch the video I made to see how gently they cook with the other ingredients. All of them must have a very short cooking time in order to save their “crispness” for the palate. Once the ingredients that go on top are done, let’s work…

Cocoa or vanilla daisy pastries?

Hello! We are enjoying warm Spring days, which are getting longer and longer. Sometimes, after dinner time, it might happen you want to enjoy a glass of fresh milk and perhaps a light dessert in front of a good reading. The following recipe of small daisy pastries is for those who, like me, love to…

Spring in the kitchen

A dish has to talk to you. Indeed, all senses have to be activated to feel its vibrations. Even though you are not a chef, but, of course, you love cooking, it is a full experience around the dish, first of all as executor of the dish, by choosing ingredients properly at the food market…

A warm jam apricot dessert

Hallo! It is the first Sunday of May and we want to prepare a delicious dessert for the afternoon. Here we have some home made delicious apricot jam, a good burrata stuffed with cow milked ricotta cheese, cardamom, leaves of mint. Heat the apricot jam in a bain marie for a couple of minutes, then…

Fast, easy and delicious composition

Soon it will be May and days are filled with beautiful light longer. I find that staying in the open air and working in the garden be invigorating. It is almost time for dinner and this composition of crisp vegetables paired with a warm creamy goat milked tomino cheese on soft flat bread might be…

The genuine habit of baking home made bread

There is a good fragrance of home made bread in the kitchen tonight. Actually, it is almost one year that this genuine habit of baking home made bread has taken place in my kitchen. More precisely, about once or twice a week, the kitchen looks like a small bakery, where I enjoy to make and…

A blueberry jam tart for your coffee pause

While it was and still it is pretty hot outside, we took our own time for preparing a tart with home made blueberry jam this afternoon. It will be an excellent dessert served as a snack in the middle of the day, even better with a cup of coffee or tea, or after dinner, or…

Stockholm: Enjoy a majestic view from the romantic walking path of Monteliusvägen.

Hello! Looking back at these pics I took some time ago, it still seems to me to feel the vibrant atmosphere of my journey in Stockholm, where, it is easy to reach places by taking the subway and then having long walks for enjoying, with traveller’s heart filled with wonder, local art, architecture, food, design,…

Glad Midsommar

Please, stay safe everybody and enjoy Summer days ❤

Along the Summer route

The small boat continued its journey, gliding smoothly, light and rapid on small waves that played chasing each other along the summer route.

Welcome June

Time for some relax and for enjoying long walks into nature

Let’s make small zucchini boats and red onion sauce for dinner

The red onion hisses in the pan with a couple of soup spoons of extra virgin olive oil. This is to start preparing a red onion sauce to be served with small zucchini boats on your dinner table.

Fotografiska

Glad påsk alla!

A Tale from Nature

Home made white lasagna for the Easter table

It is the beginning of the first week of Spring and, in the range of crops at the food store, we might find the asparagus that can be chosen as privileged ingredient of several dishes for the Easter table. During the last weekend, I made some different kind of fresh pasta at home. For the…

A delicious dish for the Springtime table

Days are flowing towards the good season and, on the wave of staying at home, let’s try to focus on the delicious dishes we can prepare around Easter time. For lunch, today I made some crêpes stuffed with artichokes and fresh creamy robiola cheese. 1. As for the crêpes, I used one egg, half liter…

Stay at home, listen to Mozart and enjoy cooking

Staying at home in these days is a good opportunity for spending more time with family. For this reason, let’s cook something appetizing for our loved ones. We need good local potatoes, asparagus, garlic, onion, extra virgin olive oil, some typical Toscanello cheese, an egg, rosemary, oregano, salt, pepper and breadcrumb. Choose your preferred music…

In the park and ornamental gardens of Drottningholm Palace

In the end Spring is right behind the corner again and if Sweden is in your plans, among your best preferred destinations for enjoying holidays, definitely, Drottningholm Palace and its fabulous Baroque styled gardens are worth a visit when you are in the nearby of Stockholm.

An excellent dish: hand made pasta bows and broccoli on Mardi gras

Enjoy the dish in good company of your family and friends and wish everybody a good Mardi gras.

A journey to Skokloster Castle, Sweden

My journey to Skokloster Castle took place on a beautiful morning, during early Autumn season. At the Central Station, in Stockholm, I caught the train heading to Bålsta and then the bus for Skokloster. Travelling by train at first and then by bus was smooth and it took about 75 minutes to get to the…

A gracious tulip to make Springtime

We are still in January and it is gonna take a little before milder temperatures. However, we can take good energy from the food we have even at Winter time, of course without forgetting that simple food is the best. At this proper, here it is a light genuine recipe of a cake for enjoying…

Ice skating in Kungsträdgården, Stockholm

Here we are in Kungsträdgården, in Stockholm, enjoying watching people having fun ice skating

Let’s make spaghetti for dinner!

  Hello, are you planning to bring authentic flavours of Italian cuisine to your table at the weekend? Indeed, a dish of pasta is the best way to cook like Italians and many people in the world love Italian pasta. At this proper, here there are some quick tips in order to choose a good…