Whole-wheat pizza dough… it’s pizza time!

Whole-wheat pizza dough… it’s pizza time!

Some time ago I discovered a brilliant way to start the week perfectly… eating pizza!! So, today we will make a whole-wheat pizza dough. But why pizza on Monday? Well, because pizza is one of those foods that makes the day better. When you eat pizza, …

Flavoured balanced salt: un unusual seasoning

Flavoured balanced salt: un unusual seasoning

It’s commonly known that adding a bit of salt in a cake brings out its full taste. This fact induced an Italian chef to ask himself if the contrary was equally true: what about adding a bit of sugar to savory dishes? So he “created” …

Hot chilli olive oil: give a little extra to your dishes!

Hot chilli olive oil: give a little extra to your dishes!

When you are in a pizzeria, what is the first thing you ask, just after ordering pizza? I don’t know you, but I usually ask for some hot chilli olive oil!! Real Italian pizzerias make it by themselves. It gives a little extra that makes …

Durum wheat semolina sandwich bread

Durum wheat semolina sandwich bread

Which is one of the products I couldn’t live without? Bread, of course! Most of all, I enjoy making it, preparing it by myself. I think making bread is a kind of magic. You put together some flour, water, salt and yeast… and after a …

Chickpea hummus, the traditional recipe

Chickpea hummus, the traditional recipe

I wanted to prepare the tradional chickpea hummus since weeks, even months, but I never did it. Why? Because I couldn’t find a tahini sauce with just sesame and nothing else. Maybe it wasn’t the right time 🙂 Once I really decided to make it, after …

Sabbazza sauce: my first culinary invention

Sabbazza sauce: my first culinary invention

Have you ever heard about the Sabbazza sauce? No? Of corse, you haven’t! 😀 I invented it! And now I will tell you how. Parsley used to be one of the few forbidden ingredients in my kitchen! Why? Because my partner was selectively intolerant to parsley. …

Vanilla dark brown sugar homemade

Vanilla dark brown sugar homemade

Did you ever think about the vanilla flavouring when you bake a dessert? How is it made and what it contains? It’s a very common ingredient for desserts, but I never spent any time thinking about it… … until I moved abroad 😀 While in …