It’s monday, outside the sky is grey, it’s also quite cold and this year I’m feeling the coming of autumn more than ever. I want to cook, to preserve food in fancy jars, to experiment things on the stove (I’m…
Experiment muffin – almost a family tale
The women in my family often has the peculiar habit of taking 25 minutes to tell you something that could be said in 5 minutes tops. This is because they tell you all the prequels. And since I’m 50% just…
Home made hot cocoa – recipe
This Christmas too I’ve decided to handmake my gifts, something edible and pretty. I’ve chosen a hot cocoa powder, and even though some of those who received one of my GORGEOUS jars thought I simply bought the store version, opened…
Granny Natalina’s recipe for béchamel
This past saturday Anna drove me to the House of the Polishman, we went to visi Lanterna: we had an early Christmas lunch in our books. What we wanted to do was retrieve some tradition, aka being home (it’s so…
Zucchini and thyme velvet soup
Here at the Nook, from october to march, monday is soup night. To get better from the weekend, to be warm, to console ourselves from “the monday”, and because we like ’em. Up untill now we had the habit of…