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  1. Go, spring!

    March 10, 2012 by Giulietta

    Picture by Eleonora

    Today a bright sun shines in Turin, and it should last for the entire weekend, quite conveniently, since I'm going on a little getaway. I just want to enjoy these first blue skies, this first warm sun, I just want to drive along some country roads and stop whenever I want to, searching for anything, but some photographic fascination… maybe I didn't tell you this, but I'm attending a photography class. I'm doing this, so maybe I'll learn to use my powerful photographic means.

    But (and you've already learned that there's always a but), to avoid that weather plays tricks on me, I'd do some sort of sacrifice to the gods of weather: I offer you a recipe that I hope it will be the last winter one for this blogging season… if you'll find the recipe for yak and bell peppers, next time, blame the weather, not my intentions. I couldn't think of anything wintery than a dried fruit cake served with zabaione, flavored with a passito wine (my achilles heel) … is it wintery enough?

    I hope this cake would be a sufficient sacrifice, and I hope that sun will be with us longer and longer, from now on, or at least for this weekend (I'll settle for little, after all).
     

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    Category Arabic cuisine, Cakes and pies, Dessert and Sweets, Dried fruit, Pantry cakes, Wine | Tags: ,,,,,,,,,,,,, | 13 Comments

  2. A lazy Wednesday: cumin carrots

    September 14, 2011 by Giulietta

     

    Ok, I'm at the end of the meal… well, actually I'm at side dishes!

    I'm telling you I reached the end of the meal, 'cause today I want to share with you one of those recipes that to me are a clear sign of pure laziness: one of those recipes that I make when I'm out of ideas, but I want still to enjoy a good side dish, simple, quick and different from the usual (ie, for me, different from pan-fried carrots with garlic and rosemary: and I still love these carrots, by the way). In short, once discovered this recipe in a Arabic cookbook I received as a gift a long long time ago, I never left it!

    This recipe has only three requisites, but all of three are vital: you must have some carrots at your fingertips, you have to love cumin (like me! Cumin, I love you) and you must have this fragrant spice at home with you (I'll have cumin for the next four or five years, since I bought half a kilo of it from an Arabic butcher in the Porta Palazzo open market -by the way, I think that Porta Palazzo is one the unmissable places to visit in a Turin tour)

    If you meet these prerequisites, you can go ahead with the reading… well, you can do it even if don't meet them, but your reading won't have a practical application, in this case.

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    Category Arabic cuisine, Side dish, Spices, Vegetables | Tags: ,,,, | 38 Comments