The Comfort of Italian Home Cooking
Easy butter cookies are so so delicious that need no introduction, but these ones are also super quick to prepare, and they are ready in just 30 minutes! Also, if you want to enjoy these butter cookies even more, just don’t think about how much butter there’s inside 🙂 Other […]
These Apple and Raisins Fritters are the only reason I wait for the Carnival period. I know that I could make them all year log, but traditionally my mom used to prepare them only during Carnival, so I choose to follow her example and build a family tradition for my […]
You already know that we have cakes or cookies for breakfast in Italy, so I will spare you all the details and I will just tell you that this cake is SO GOOD you can have it also outside breakfast 🙂 Extremely easy to make, you won’t even need to […]
One of my favorite crepes, after the classic crepes with Nutella, are for sure those filled with homemade creamy walnuts. These special crepes are inspire by the Slovenian crepes names Palatschinke, which you should absolutely try, if you’ll ever go and travel to Slovenia. As you know already, my grandparent’s […]
These Polentini breakfast cookies are perfect as a snack or if you like an Italian style type of breakfast. If you ever been to Italy you know that breakfast consists in just a cup of coffee or caffelatte and something sweet on the side. Usually a piece of cake, some […]
Chocolate Crostata with Cherries Jam had just became my new favorite crostata! This is the type of dessert perfect to start the holiday seasons, but also for a Saturday dinner with friends and family. I must confess that I love my mom’s crostata so much, that I wasn’t very open […]
Prune Plum Gnocchi are sweet potatoes gnocchi filled with fresh prune plums seasoned with butter, sugar and cinnamon. This is one of Friuli Venezia Giulia’s regional dishes and it’s traditionally served as a first dish, but you can also decide to make it into a dessert. I personally enjoy it […]
As we begin to settle into fall days, I’m always a bit nostalgic and I naturally lean towards homey recipes that fit a colder weather. I guess you cannot fight your roots! And let’s be real, there’s nothing like the cozy smell of apples cinnamon cake that warms your house […]
I think I said this already one hundred times, but one more time won’t hurt anyone: I LOVE CHOCOLATE! I truly do! So even though I was trying to be opened to different tastes this summer, you probably remember my Yogurt Lemon Cake and my other Lemon Tart, I was […]
This yogurt lemon cake is extra moist, light and refreshing with an intense lemon flavor. Its very particular texture is the result of baking it in a water bath (bain-marie), which keeps crust from forming while gently cooking the interior of the cake. This yogurt lemon cake is extremely easy […]