dessert

I hope all of you is spending a Happy Easter wherever you are! Each year I prepare a traditional cake for Easter; last year it was the "treccia pasquale", this year I found the recipe (on this month's issue of Sale e Pepe) for the "pastiera", a gorgeous cake from Naples, which is anyway largely appreciated in all Italy. It's actually less long to make than I thought, so give it a try!

Back to the oven... a quiet Saturday morning, slightly rainy and chilly, blueberries and a few apricots gave me the inspiration for an easy tart, ready for tea-time, waiting for tomorrow's Regata Storica.

Here are the ingredients you will need:

Happy New Year everybody! Hope you all spent some nice holidays! Are you filled up with sweets, meat, tortellini, cotechino and so on? Here is a nice way to use pandoro leftover (if you have, but after Christmas pandoro and panettoni are on sale and they're cheaper than bread!), 5 minutes to prepare, 10 minutes to cook, 5 minutes to eat. Here we go!

For 12 mini-tatins

Hi everybody! High season has indeed started and time to cook is not so much, but this dessert is so easy, quick and most of all delicious that I couldn't resist sharing it...

Hi Everybody, I hope you spent a nice Summer! I'm just back to Venice and one of the first things I did was to go back to Rialto Market... I don't have a recipe today, but simply a "shopping suggestion" for all of you who is currently in Venice: buy the white-flesh donut peaches, sold in most of the stalls these day at the Market, you don't even have to peel them, they're small, white-fleshed and sooooo sweet... ideal as a snack for these sunny days. I thought about preparing a tart with them, but they're so good I think the best way to consume them is... just eat them!