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Oil Cured Cheese

  Oil Cured Cheese is vintage and simple oil preserving cheese method to keep your cheese safe to eat for months without refrigerator. Perfect for your charcuterie board.   This easy, ancient way of curing semi hard cheese becomes soft and full of flavours after oil cured for a month.… Read more »

Amaretti Thumbprints

  Amaretti Thumbprints are Italian almond pearls, so easy to make. Simple and perfect cookie recipe for holidays !   This simple and delicious, traditional dessert recipe is quite an old one, inherited within my family and perfect for holidays. Loaded with ground almonds, some almond extract, all purpose flour,… Read more »

Vintage Blueberry Coffee Cake

Vintage Blueberry Coffee Cake: more than hundred years old, this recipe survived thanks to its simplicity and amazing flavours ! Vintage Blueberry Coffee Cake is one of the evergreens baked quite often, combined with seasonal berries. A handful of any berries added to this perfect batter makes it so comforting… Read more »

Italian Festive Cake (Bustrengo)

  Italian Festive Cake (Bustrengo) is traditional Christmas cake with dried figs, apples, lemon zest, honey, olive oil, and polenta. Bursting with festive flavours, it is beautiful dense yet moist dessert.   Traditionally, the cake was prepared in a fireplace, in a copper pot with a lid that was covered… Read more »

Isabella Grape Jam

  Isabella Grape Jam: Heard it through the grapevine …   I still remember the fragrance the Isabella grapes released after rain in my grandmother’s backyard. We used to play hide-and-seek there under the grand grapevine roof, all around the chairs, running among the Isabella vines and peonies. Is there… Read more »