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  1. 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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  2. Happy birthday, blog!

    February 22, 2012 by Giulietta

    Here we are … Alterkitchen, a year later.

    Exactly one year ago I wrote my first posts, my because and my first recipe. It's amazing, when I look back at this year, how many things have changed in my life and how much I have changed … maybe changed is not the right word, but I certainly came back to be someone that I left dormant for too long.

    So many things changed, in my business life and even more in my personal life… some people got out of my life, some others entered it on tiptoe, others knocking down the door, and then there are some people who have always been there, and that perhaps will always be (and it's what I sincerely hope).

    Between all these changes and this weird and unlucky 2011, I realized that constants (but not too many of them, otherwise things get boring) are important .. and this blog was, despite my breaks and my syncopated or loose rhythms, an important constant. It was something to cultivate, to let grow, to follow and to love, something that brought me small and great satisfactions, warmth, laughter, sharing and new friends … and I think that friendships born around a real or a virtual table are going to last much more than what we eat together, with the mouth or with the eyes.

    I close this panegyric (a bit too mushy) with a THANKS, for your attentions, your comments and your mere presence, a THANKS to all of you who read my posts and to those who are reading me now, and I hope you'll continue to do so.

    To thank you I thought I could make you gift … from a word and paper (printed or not) fetish, I chose to give away to one of you a Moleskine recipe journal and a book (I already chose it, and I hope that will please the one who will receive it).

    After the recipe you'll find all the information about taking part to my little giveaway .. and now, to celebrate, what would you say about a piece of tiramisù?!

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  3. Adios 2011

    December 31, 2011 by Giulietta

    Today is the last day of the year (I'm the queen of the useful and surprising statements), it's time for celebratory/memorial and summary posts.

    This 2011 brought me a degree, but no job (rather, it brought me discontinuous jobs and not even one of them minimally connected and worthy of that degree .. oh well), it took away something from me (and only time will tell if this was bad or good), but it brought me new things and people, it allowed me to strengthen relationships, it made me rediscover the value of friendship, of sharing, of joy for others' happiness.

    The year 2011 brought me this blog (well, it didn't brought it to me, but don't be too literal) and, with it, recipes, laughter, new friends, exchange and follies (I won't forget my panettone at 1 AM as long as I live).

    Until yesterday I would have said goodbye to 2011 with a nice FUCK YOU (I would have screamed that), for those things that have been taken from me, for the lost opportunities, for the dissatisfactions and the defeats. But then, with a more lucid thinking, I thought about the fact that, as a friend of mine says, the glass is always half full, maybe half full with air, but still half full .. and so I say goodbye to 2011 with a more serene SCREW YOU (were you expecting a "thank you and goodbye"?! I haven't softened to this point), asking politely (they say that good manners help) to 2012, if it can, to be at least a bit better. Thank you.

    But, to say a proper goodbye to the past year, which coincides with almost 12 months of blogging, I leave you a picture and a recipe for each month (well, since I didn't have January, I chose two recipe from March .. but changing the order of the addends, the result remains the same, uh?!), leaving you some sort of illustrated calendar (if you do not like, though, next year I could make a pornographic calendar of my dog, so you'll learn your lesson!)
     

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  4. My 7 links

    November 10, 2011 by Giulietta

    For some time now the world wide web goes crazy for this game (a bit of a chain letter, but much less annoying) called The 7 links project. If you are tagged, you have to think about your blog and you have to choose 7 links to 7 posts that you believe correspond to 7 predetermined categories. Once you've done that, you leave some other blogger holding the baby.

    Well, a few weeks ago Katherine left me holding it, and here I am, although with delay. Meanwhile, I invite you to visit Katherine's blog, which is full of delicious food and breathtaking photos.

    Of course, my blog is a newborn compared to others, but the game is still challenging, 'cause I had to comb through my blog's data and 'because I have two blog, so I had to cross the data. But (there's always a but) here they are … my choices.

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