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Homemade Savoiardi – Because your Tiramisù has been missing these
It’s been a few weeks, but I haven’t left you here without creating new delicious creations in the meantime. You may have seen a few updates from me on social media, but my absence from writing was so that I could take time to sit back and take a few moments to educate myself and find ways to get more involved with the crisis of systemic racism that has been a problem for longer than it should be. I won’t go into many details on this post, but I will say that I will not be staying silent about this issue and I’ll be continuing to raise my voice on…
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Chocolate Rum Mascarpone Bites – Un Dolce Facilissimo
I tend to have a pretty strong sweet tooth and besides cooking up a pasta dish or my new favorite thing to make, focaccia, I enjoy making/baking/eating sweets. Ever since I was a bambina (little girl) I was obsessed with chocolate – literally all things chocolate and I don’t think that has stopped now that I’m in my thirties. Fast forward to present day and now that we are shopping about once a week, I’m trying to be extra careful about letting food go to waste (especially the chocolate) What I have learned about the Italian lifestyle in the kitchen is that NOTHING goes to waste. There is always a…
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Focaccia Genovese
Every region in Italy is known for particular cuisines and special recipes that are true to that specific area. That is what makes Italy so very unique, because of it’s diverse good culture. You can’t expect to travel to Sicilia (Sicily) and get focaccia that tastes like you would fresh from the focacceria in Genova (Genoa). That’s why it is called Focaccia Genovese – those Italians who are from Genoa know that this particular bread and it’s oily goodness is a specialty of their area – and for good reason. It’s DELICIOUS. My sister sent Roberto a recent journal entry (embarrassing) from my daily high school journal and it said,…
