Christmas is getting closer and closer, so today we’ll conclude dinner with Winter bud: a aperitif cocktail with prosecco, lychee cream and a drop of rose essence. We kinda love lychees, do you? There must be someone else always ordering the fruit salad in Chinese restaurants! 😀 In Winter bud the bitterness of prosecco wine is tempered by the sweetness … Read More
Spaghetti nests with asparagus and eggs
Today we’re proposing a springtime first course: little spaghetti nests with asparagus, scented by a pinch of thyme and gratinated in the oven. Scenic and elegant, very tasty and easy to make 😉 . A few days ago we realized that after 8 months the blog still had not submitted a pasta recipe! A real shame! Thus, we run immediately to the … Read More
Cailletier olives and citrus salad
Every main course has to be accompanied by a worthy side dish 🙂 . And today we’re presenting a fresh salad with unusual combination of flavors: a fennel crudité enriched with cailletier olives and sweetened by orange and raisins. In this dish we wanted to revive some flavours typical of winter and of Christmas time. We approached the delicate bitterness of … Read More
Perch morsels in almond crust
Here we come with the main course for Christmas dinner. Last year we presented a veal roast with candied fruits sauce, but this year we want to propose some fish: morsels of perch in almond crust, lightly spiced with Sichuan pepper berries and Persian blue salt 🙂 . The morsels are very quick to prepare; you can safely bread them even … Read More
Soft loaves with spelt and rye
Christmas, and of course dinner, are imminent… Today we won’t be presenting a dish, but a recipe that will accompany the whole meal: loaves with spelt and rye. The loaves are very easy to do, all you need is patience to make them leaven well. They are very fragrant and tasty, and using spelt flour they’ll remain crisp 🙂 . Now, … Read More
Creamy ginger soup
We are now in December and Christmas is getting closer! So no more talk and we let’s continue with our proposals for Christmas dinner 😉 . Since you do not need to have a fat and heavy dinner to celebrate, we have chosen a first course light and sparkling: a creamy ginger soup 🙂 . Thanks to the ginger, the creamy will … Read More
Red Velvet cupcakes
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
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