Chicken Roll
Last Saturday I got an oral surgery so now I have 2 stitches in my mouth and I can slowly eat only soft food. At...
Frittata with Potatoes
This is one of those plate I’ve been eating since I was a little kid. It was a common dish when my grandma was alive...
Mushroom Lasagna with Bechamel Sauce
Lasagna is one of those dish to which I can’t resist, it is just too good for saying no to nice and warm serving of...
SF style Clam Chowder
The first time in my life I had this delicious soup was back in 2008 when I was on vacation in San Francisco (California). I remember...
The Lentils cookies
I’ve found this recipe on a cooking magazine and I thought it was a cool recipe for an original finger food or as an alternative...
Scallop shell pasta in Ricotta Cream
Last Thursday I went to my first Photography class hold by ViviShanghai (teacher David Slavich) so I got back home pretty late (after 9) and...
Homemade Ravioli
Ravioli are a type of filled pasta composed of a filling sealed between two layers of thin pasta dough. Home making the dough is really...
Stuffed Chicken
I got this recipe from my mom’s cooking notebook, a little, old memo pad where she has been hand writing all her recipes since I...
Sorrento Style Gnocchi
The word gnocchi means “lumps”, and may derive from nocchio, a knot in the wood,or from nocca (knuckle).It has been a traditional Italian pasta type...
Green Peas Risotto
Risotto is a very tasty way of cooking rice. It is an Italian traditional dish, cooked with broth and flavored with Parmesan cheese and other...
Olive and tomato Pork Chop
This is a recipe I’ve learned from my mom. It is easy, pretty quick and really tasty. It is an ideal solution for a quick...
Nutella Croissant
Croissant with Nutella is one of my favorite breakfast. It’s easy to find croissant here in Shanghai, there are plenty of patisserie and bakery place,...
Puff Pastry
Puff pastry is a light, flaky, unleavened pastry containing several layers of fat. It is used for preparing sweet and salty recipes. The production of...
Chocolate Syrup
Last night I was (as always) craving sweets. I had some vanilla ice-cream in the freezer but I was feeling like adding some more flavor...
Japanese vegetable rolls
After the recipe for making Japanese sushi rice, let’s now see how to prepare some sushi rolls. The vegetable sushi rolls are the easiest therefore...
Peanut butter Chocolate chips Cookies
This is not an Italian recipe, but I just LOVE cookies and I think American cookies are really tasty. After the Chocolate chips cookies and...
Stracchino and Ham Quiche
This recipe is a little invention of mine. I bought 3 packages of Stracchino cheese from Bottega, with the help of the nice and friendly...
Chocolate Salami
The chocolate salami is an old recipe my mom used to prepare for me and my sister when we were having house parties with our...
Sushi Rice
How many of you that are reading this don’t like sushi? I am sure most of you do, like me. Yesterday night I had dinner...
Butterfly cookies
Butterfly cookie is a recipe that I’ve seen my grandma made a thousands times when I was a little kid. On a Sunday morning she...