FLOWERS TO EAT… PANCAKES WITH ACACIA FLOWERS

Do you know how many species of acacia exist in the world? 1,300 ... In Italy the most common (after the mimosa) is the Robinia pseudoacacia. In this period it is in bloom everywhere, if you travel around Italy you can see these trees turned into white clouds by clouds of creamy-white flowers that fill [...]

Sweet Hearts, Pancakes and mixed berries

I don't like the "national" holidays. I do not mean national holidays such as Christmas and Easter, but the others... those calendar dates such as Valentine's Day or Women's Day, that consumerism has made a little kitsch and emptied of meaning. But I can not resist to celebrate Mother's Day. It's a celebration day (as [...]

PIOPPINI MUSHROOMS IN OIL!

My father is passionate of mushrooms. He studies mushrooms and collect them all over the year, so in our house we have always a lot of mushrooms. If someone ask me what is my favorite one, I would say with no doubt pioppini mushrooms (agrocybe aegerita). Indeed, perhaps I could thing about it for a [...]

TAMARO RISOTTO AND STAFFORELLA

Do you remember Tamaro? I've talked about that plant few posts ago. These are the last days to collect them. Why not take advantage and make a good tamaro (tamaro communis) risotto with stafforella cheese? This recipe takes only 30 minutes and is very easy to do... Enjoy! Ingredients Recipe: Risotto Cuisine: Italian [...]

Flowers to eat: salad with salmon, orange, almond and calendula

Flowers in the pot? Well yes! In addition to being colorful, fragrant, beautiful to look at and to give a decorative touch to our original dishes, many flowers are also good to eat and very useful to enrich our diet with many important active ingredients. Several scientific studies prove that in fact some of the [...]

Don’t call it waste: the Kefir serum

Many of those who produce homemade kefir does not filter the grains, other people (including me) filter kefir to get a more dense creamy. Given that with one liter of whole milk you get a little more than 400 g of kefir, and that part of milk goes to feed our colony of granules, we [...]