Category: Bread
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Focaccia di Recco
It’s worth everything to eat freshly-made foccacia di Recco I tasted focaccia di Recco for the first time in the town of Recco on the Ligurian coast of Italy. I remember it well because our two boys were really young at the time. We had been to Genova for the weekend and were…
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Crescia Pasqualina (Savoury Cheese Bread)
Easter is a big deal in Italy I realize that Easter has come and gone, but the recipes linger on. I spent Easter in Italy for the first time ever (at least that I can remember). I think every year on this long weekend, we’ve gone everywhere but Italy, until this year. I…
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Hot Cross Buns For Easter
Hot cross buns, chocolate eating, and musings about the Easter Bunny Easter is nearly here. I can hear the hoppity-hop of little bunny paws as they stuff their baskets with Easter eggs…..well, there must be more than one Easter Bunny, right? Otherwise how would he get the Easter eggs to all the kids…
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Focaccia di Leonarda
Discovering the focaccia success secret I had the pleasure of watching Leonarda, a friend of mine from Puglia, make focaccia last week. I had tried over the years to make focaccia but for some reason, no matter what I tried, the focaccia always came out hard like a plank of wood. Leonarda very…
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Bruschetta (Italian Tomato and Garlic Bread)
The strawberries had a better party to go to this year Well, maybe you all actually know how to make bruschetta, but even if you do, I hope that this post will remind you of it since there are loads of wonderful tomatoes and basil coming into season right around now…..well, at least there…
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Panettone: Why I Don’t Dare To Make It At Home
Why I haven’t had the courage to make panettone at home Panettone is a wonderful, fluffy, sweet, fruit-laden cake-like bread that is eaten in Italy at Christmas time. I just had the good fortune to be able to attend a weekend course on how to make it run by a fabulous baker called Marco…
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Grissini (Homemade Breadsticks)
Home-made bread-sticks are so much tastier than store-bought ones! So, I know you’re going to say, “But, why make grissini (bread sticks) when I can buy perfectly good ones at the supermarket?”……why, indeed…..well, fresh homemade grissini are infinitely more delicious than store-bought, and anyway, it’s coming into Winter and on one of…
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Pizza Dough: Make It Like an Italian!
The dangers of eating Italian pizza When I was a kid my mother would let me choose what we were going to have for dinner each year when my birthday rolled around. I always, but ALWAYS chose pizza: every single birthday for years and years and years (if you don’t believe me,…
