A few years spent baking already and I still don’t have a KitchenAid! Mrs Seddy always makes fun of me because I take ages to whip the cream or to whisk the eggs and the sugar! The thing is I… Read More ›
Breakfast and Tea time Recipes
Lemon Bavarois
Reading other people’s blog I found that they really talk about their own life and personal thoughts. I discovered an entire world out there, bloggers and bloggers having discussion.. about nothing. Someone posts a recipe and someone else goes like ‘yummy,… Read More ›
La Pastiera
The story goes like this: Maria Cristina of Savoy married Ferdinand II of the Two Sicilies. Maria Cristina was described as beautiful but also timid and shy girl: modest and reserved, she was never comfortable at the royal court. Her… Read More ›
Apple, Pastry Cream and Hazelnut Tart
The life of a girl (shall I say a woman?!) in her late 30s is basically all about kids. Her life goes around her little monsters. These girls, the Sciure (find definition of ‘Sciure’ in https://casamiablog.wordpress.com/2013/02/14/heart-shaped-talian-cookies/ ) of course have kids. There… Read More ›
Chocolate Cake with No Flour
Kids grow up so quickly. They are beautiful, always funnier than the day before. When they are just born, you feel like there’s no tomorrow: you are going to die changing nappies and washing super tiny clothes. The day after,… Read More ›
Chocolate and Pears Tart
http://www.girlfriendinacoma.eu it’s a blog and it is also a film now. (The film is actually named after a song by the Smiths). It’s written and directed by two Italy lovers. Bill Emmott who also writes “Forza, Italia: Come Ripartire Dopo… Read More ›
The Italian Chocolate Roll
The Namesake, a novel by Jhumpa Lahiri. I read it when we were living in New York (2005). We had no kids back then, still I could feel the difficulties of raising a child in a country which is not… Read More ›
Marble Pound Cake, the Italian way
I love my grandma’s tea set. I loved her and I loved the way she always used to set up the little side table, by her favourite armchair, when it was tea time. She used to drink it “white”, it… Read More ›
Mini Chocolate Eclairs
Mrs Cricri. Lucky her. She has been living in London for many years, as most of us: two kids, far away from her hometown, a husband super stressed for his job, always tired and sleepless, no weekends to the beach… Read More ›
Bavarian Chocolate Mousse with Chocolate Sponge
..and then there is this bunch of guys, all ex GS and all CBS Alumni, who are very good friends, even if their lives took very different paths. They try hard to get together once in a while to share… Read More ›
Casa Mia in London 