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WATERMELON ITALIAN ICE

Watermelon Italian Ice. A fresh idea to differently taste watermelon: cold watermelon, with cream, mint and chocolate chips. Ingredients Recipe: Dessert Cuisine: Italian Serving: 5 glasses 750 g watermelon chocolate chips 1 vanilla bean 2 ts agar agar 100 g sugar fresh mint fresh cream powdered sugar pistachios (optional) cinnamon (optional) Directions [...]

By |Jun 24, 2014|Categories: Dessert, Food, Recipe, Vegetarian|Tags: , , , |

HUGO COCKTAIL: THE PERFECT SUBSTITUTE OF THE SPRITZ

It's the white version of the Spritz and if you love bubbles and happy hours you'll love it! It's Hugo cocktail, a slightly alcoholic cocktails born in South Tyrol in 2005. Roland Gruber was looking for an alternative to the Spritz and Hugo was created. Such kind of cocktail has rapidly spread in Triveneto and [...]

By |Jun 19, 2014|Categories: Food, Recipe, to drink|Tags: , , , , , , |

Milk Thistle: frightful but good!

There are herbs so thorny and threatening that you'd never know you could eat them.  Such as milk thistle, appreciated in cuisine as in herbal medicine. Also called "saint" thistle  for his extraordinary therapeutic qualities. Since ancient times it was used by doctors and herbalists to treat a wide range of diseases. Plants can grow [...]

Tell me about your local market and I’ll tell you who you are, the MAHANE YEHUDA MARKET

To understand a place you have to go to the local market. That's where you can find faces, bits of history, traditions and ways of doing, products and knick-knacks. Aromas and flavors, strengths and weaknesses of the place and its inhabitants. In Jerusalem, where everything has (at least) two versions, even the typical markets are [...]