Do goldfishes celebrate Saint Valentine? I am sure they do celebrate Saint Valentine, probably the don’t care much about it as everything else, but they do it. Life as a goldfish must be good, they don’t ask themselves too many… Read More ›
Morning Time Dessert,
Homely Apple Pound Cake
A nice, easy and homely cake, perfect for this time of the year. Especially if you are far from your hometown and if – for the first time ever – you are going to celebrate Christmas far from your mum…. Read More ›
Interior Pumpkin Halloween Cake
I know, I am a bit biased. Actually I am totally biased but I hate those all-about-décor cakes. Period. I know, you can find them everywhere by now, so I might be the only one thinking this way. In fact, here in… Read More ›
Chestnut Tart
Going to the hairdresser and be treated by the gayest guy in the Chelsea village is one of the thing I like the most in my ‘sciura’ style life. (see https://casamia-inlondon.com/2013/01/28/lemoncake/ for “sciura style”). Actually he is not the gayest guy… Read More ›
Light-weight Chocolate Cupcakes, Torta Margherita
3 years have gone already. Almost. And we are all focused on organising the birthday party for the twins. Planning, buying balloons, do I really need helium to make them fly?! Do you know there is a world shortage of… 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 http://casamia-blog.com/2013/02/14/heart-shaped-talian-cookies/ ) of course have kids. There… 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 ›
Lunch at Jamie Oliver’s Barbecoa – Madeleines
It’s sunday morning, it’s chilly outside and you don’t really know what to do. So Mr M, Mrs M, Miss M and Mstr M head straight to the Columbia Flower Market to have a quick – very quick, indeed – walk… Read More ›
Casa Mia in London 