Here we come for the dessert for Easter dinner, a fresh cupcake in the guise of Red Velvet, topped by a delicate cheese cream 🙂 . The Red Velvet is a cake from US, popular in the old World too especially in recent years. The cake is characterised by its vermilion colour and a creamy white frosting, creating a spectacular colour … Read More
All Saints salad
The time has come to present another traditional recipe from our valley: a salad made with endive traditionally eaten during Halloween, flavoured with chilli and anchovies and topped with walnut oil and apple vinegar. In every family from Valle d’Aosta they used to enjoy the eve all together consuming this salad remembering the dead: a convivial meal to gather the … Read More
Pumpkin meringue tart
One last week until Halloween… You have carved your pumpkin yet? We are preparing it right now 🙂 . By decorating the pumpkin, we ended up with a lot of pulp, we could not have better excuse to prepare the irresistible pumpkin meringue tart: a delicate pumpkin custard, enclosed in a box of pastry and topped with a lightly golden roasted … Read More
Lunar Eclipse
After the dessert, we could not forget a cocktail to celebrate Halloween in the company. So here Lunar Eclipses, a terrifying bloody molecular cocktail 🙂 . A base of blood orange and white rum, in which a purple moon with cherry flavour floats, enriched with a hint of ginger. Just before sipping cocktails, break the molecular cherry, spreading the “blood” … Read More
Cannoli filled with tuna mousse
Since Christmas is nearly here, today we’re going to start our proposals for Christmas dinner! 🙂 And we’re starting with an appetizer, fast to prepare, delicious and quite scenic: small cannoli stuffed with a delicate tuna and Philadelphia mousse and flavored with a pinch of white pepper and a few leaves of fresh parsley. This year there is a surprise, … Read More
Mini Dobos with white chocolate
We reached the endind of the recipes for Christmas dinner, but of course we can not forget the dessert. Do you remember the Hungarian Dobos cake? Go now to review the recipe 😉 . Inspired by the whiteness of the snow (or perhaps by nostalgia of the absence this winter), we propose a variant with white chocolate: here are the … Read More
Dobos torta – Hungarian chocolate layered cake
As promised, we have prepared the dessert you voted the most votes and thank you for all the comments and private messages 🙂 . For this first survey the Dobos cake is the winner, but soon we will also present the chestnut dessert! The Dobos cake was created in 1885 by the Hungarian patissier József C. Dobos in honour of the National … Read More
Snow White toffee apples
On the occasion of Halloween we’ll prepare some good toffee apples Snow White would surely appreciate 🙂 . Crisp and shiny on the outside, soft juicy inside… The queen went in haste to a secret room where no one could enter and prepared the most poisonous apple that the world ever saw. Outside the apple was so beautiful, red and white, … Read More
Trio of rolls with dates
Christmas is coming… And we still have got plenty of things to do: we have to think of gifts, decorations and, most importantly, to Christmas dinner 🙂 ! Have you chosen the menu yet? In case you had not, we hope to inspire you with our proposals. Beginning from the first course of the meal, we’re presenting a starter that … Read More
Boston Clam Chowder
We continue our culinary journey in the United States, presenting the Boston Clam Chowder 🙂 . This soup, typical of the state of New England, is both tasty, thanks to bacon and clams, and delicate because the potatoes and milk dissolve the taste of the shellfish. The Clam Chowder is often served in a loaf of bread to be consumed with the … Read More