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  1. Sciué sciué – friselle with cherry tomatoes and buffalo mozzarella

    July 28, 2012 by Giulietta

    Live from Calabria (haven’t I said that I’d write from somewhere else, this time?), in a seaside-holiday mode, I leave you a sciué sciué (it means “quick quick” in Naples) post, sciué sciué as the dish that I made, with a few (but good) ingredients, without cooking, without special equipment (just a dish, a bowl and a knife), but with a great taste.

    Furthermore, this simple dish reminds me of distant echoes of that bread and tomatoes that my grandmother made for me and my cousin as a snack, that we ate in the hammock in the shade of a thorn bush; but, even more, it reminds me of the hundreds of summer lunches that my father and I had with friselle, when the weather was so hot to get close to the stove. Maybe it’s because bread (or frisella), tomatoes, salt, oil and oregano (now I added something a little more sophisticated) it’s a mix both simple and perfect, maybe it’s because of this tender and fuzzy childhood memories or maybe it’s because the memories that from now on I’ll tie to this dish, but frisella for me is and will stay a summer must I’ll hardly give up … and why should I?!

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    Category Appetizer and Finger food, Breads and pizzas, Cheese, Cold dishes, Cooking for dummies, Extra-virgin olive oil, Herbs, Holidays, Regional Italian cooking, Southern Italy, Vegetables | Tags: ,,,,,,,,,,,,, | 6 Comments

  2. Give me the strenght! Motivational olive oil cookies

    March 17, 2012 by Giulietta

     

    For some time now, my days literally run away, in a vortex of commitments that I can hardly count: there's work, of course, but then there's the photography class, the Arabic cuisine class, tutoring, and then there's my private life, going out with friends, phone calls, e-mail and SMS. Then there's the blog, and I don't have to tell you how my presence here decreased a lot: now I have a weekly "appointment" with you, but its importance for me stays always the same.

    And yet I feel like I'm forgetting something that contributes to fill my days … ah, yes, then there are my dreams, the ones that make me sigh as a hero of some Nineteenth century novel thinking about Paris in spring, the ones that had me convinced that I have to join a singing or a professional cooking class… these dreams (and many others, but I won't make a list) are some sort of a background, and they're ready to creep into my thoughts while I wait for a green light or while I'm in line to pay in a supermarket. And they make ​​me realize that, despite my current frenzy, but I could call it chaos (and I don't know if it actually gives birth to a dancing star, like Nietzsche said), I still have so much to do, places to see and people worth knowing. We must "only" channel our forces better, chasing the right dreams, big or small ones.

    But when your forces aren't enough, when we would like a word of comfort and there is no one who can give us that, no one who can give us his/her shoulder to lean on?

    Well, there are motivational cookies, then. These cookies can say everything we would love to hear … a simple "Good morning" (Buongiorno) when you wake up alone in the morning and you would like someone at your side, a "Come on" ("Daje", in roman dialect) to give yourself a shake (a everything that I love hate Roman), an "alegher" (something Piedmontese that means "stay happy") to remember yourself that everything will be okay, a "hold on" (Resisti) for the darkest moments.

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    Category Breakfast, Cookies, Dessert and Sweets, Egg yolks only, Extra-virgin olive oil, Thoughts and words | Tags: ,,,,,, | 18 Comments

  3. Breakfast or gift? Wine doughnut cookies

    December 10, 2011 by Giulietta

    While you're reading this post, I will be in Rome for a book exhibition, an "excuse" to finally see again many friends who come from all over Italy. Take a school trip, add a food and wine tour, add a package tour with thousand forced stops, add a shopaholic meeting and you still can't fully grasp the spirit of this reunion. And then I'll take some food tour (I have to), and I'll finally meet some fellow food bloggers live, but I'll tell you everything when I'll come back.

    But, since "we're not here to comb the dolls" (a roman saying that means "we're not here to bake cookies"… even if we're here to bake cookies), in this post I try to satisfy with a single recipe those who are looking for simple and light breakfast cookies and those who are looking for a gourmet cookie gift for Christmas (and you can give them even to your lactose intolerant friends. Home-made really is better), perhaps along with a nice bottle of passito wine. I guarantee you, these cookies are fantastic dunked in milk and in wine … a miracle!

    It's not a miracle, it's a Juls' (from Juls' Kitchen) recipe!

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    Category Breakfast, Cookies, Dessert and Sweets, Home-made is better, Wine | Tags: ,,,,,,, | 18 Comments

  4. Y que viva Mexico: tortilla chips and guacamole

    April 29, 2011 by Giulietta

    After years of experimentation with Mexican food or, to be more exact, with Tex-Mex food, starting from chili and tortillas, passing through guacamole and arriving to my masterpiece: making not only the dip, but also the tortilla chips … I've finally come to an acceptable level of experimentation! Now I must only calculate the right amount of hot, because it seems that these tortilla chips, as The Mask would say, were spicy meatballs … at least according to my friends who tasted them!

    But these are trifles … for us, real men, this isn't spicy at all! Tsk!

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    Category Appetizer and Finger food, Fresh fruit, Tex-Mex cuisine | Tags: ,,,,,,,,, | 9 Comments

  5. Giorgio’s, Federico’s and Sigrid’s classic focaccia

    February 25, 2011 by Giulietta

    Today I start a new class of recipes, called "cooking for dummies": I hope it will last long and be helpful to some of my readers. I called it "cooking for dummies" not because my audience is foolish, but because the recipes that I'll present you are dumb-proof; besides, all these recipes will be equipped with photos of middle passages.

    Having said that (I never would someone accuse me to call him/her a dumb), let's talk about credits. Giorgio, Federico and Sigrid aren't my friends, but they are (in order) a cook, a baker and famous foodblogger, responsible for this recipe. Giorgio is Giorgio Locatelli, chef of the Locanda Locatelli in London and author of Made in Italy: Food and Stories, the book containing the focaccia recipe; Federico is Federico Turri, the baker of the Locanda Locatelli, while Sigrid is Sigrid Verbert, aka "the Brussels sprout", a well known and great (IMHO) foodblogger and photographer. Thus, I invite you all to visit her blog, a great source of inspiration for me.

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    Category Appetizer and Finger food, Cooking for dummies, Leavened, Liguria, Regional Italian cooking | Tags: ,,,, | 2 Comments