Tag: Featured
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Stockholm in May
A family weekend in Stockholm, Sweden in 2017. We visited Skansen, a sort of open air museum and went for a boat tour of the Stockholm Archipelago.
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Carciofi alla romana – Artichokes the Roman way
I love artichokes. In and around Rome there are many ways of cooking artichokes, like in a frittata di carciofi, fried in batter, raw in salads with olive oil and lemon juice, alla giudìa (the Jewish way, ie deep fried without batter), thinly sliced and cooked in a pan…. Unfortunately for a lot of these recipes you need…
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Flowers are beautiful, but orchids…
All flowers are beautiful. I love them all, from the humble wild flowers growing in meadows and in little patches of dirt along our busy streets to blooming rose bushes in curated gardens. My mother is very gifted with plants and flowers and since I was a little girl wherever we lived we had flower…
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Carbonara Day
Today is international Carbonara Day. What is Carbonara, and why do we have an international Carbonara day? Well, spaghetti alla carbonara is a recipe that historically has not been well understood, even in Italy itself. It calls for very few ingredients, but many amateur chefs (as well as a couple of well known ones) always…
