The best-known Italian breakfast is undoubtedly cappuccino and croissant, but if you ask Italians what they eat at home for breakfast, I’m sure most of them will answer milk and biscuits. The milk, whether from animal or vegetable sources, can be white (especially for children) or “macchiato” with more or less coffee, and sometimes thereContinue reading “Page #10 – The Italian style breakfast”
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Tiramisù alla cannella || Cinnamon Tiramisù
Ingredients: 8 eggs yolks 240 gr. of sugar (120+120) 500 gr. of Lotus cookies (2 packs) a jug of cold coffee flavored with 2 cinnamon sticks (about 500/600 ml.) 750 gr. of mascarpone cheese 250 gr. of philadelphia 100 gr. dark chocolate chips 5 gr. of cinnamon powder For decoration: ground cinnamon, cinnamon sticks, darkContinue reading “Tiramisù alla cannella || Cinnamon Tiramisù”
Page #5 – The gift of fire
Where is focaccia originally from? The ancient Romans with the term focus indicated the fire, but also more correctly the place of cooking. They used to cook a flatbread called focacius, precisely from focus. Similar to white pizza, but higher and softer, there is not only one recipe for focaccia, which is present in theContinue reading “Page #5 – The gift of fire”
Rice
The exact number of rice varieties in the world is not known, it is even believed to be 40,000, but it is certain that rice is the most widespread cereal in the world. How to orient yourself therefore in choosing the rice you want to keep in your pantry? The fundamental distinction between the variousContinue reading “Rice”
Page #4 – The unbearable lightness of risotto
The history of Rice From the Yang Tze Valley to the homes of Italians Rice was born in the Far East where traces and finds attest to its presence in the Yang Tze valley even ten thousand years ago, it was then widely cultivated in Mesopotamia in the fourth century. BC, and from there itContinue reading “Page #4 – The unbearable lightness of risotto”
The Stove Diaries 