Category: food and nutrition

Once upon a time…Rosolio Candy🍬😋

What’s your favorite candy?

There was, once upon a time, near my house, in Milan, the Eusebio pastry shop; sometimes on Sunday morning, with my parents I went to buy a cake and meanwhile they looked for a cake to buy, I remained enchanted by small sugar candies, closed in glass vases, which seemed  like baubles of glasses, like those it find on the beach, corroded by the sea. Promptly I went back home with, in my hands, a little paper bag, my treasure.

At home, as a ritual, the candies were putted in centre of the low table, in living room,  in one of decorated bowls of my mom and the pure gold of the bowl, stood out the delicacy of their colors.

From that moment, walking around it I took one, then another and another…putted them in mouth, was impossible don’t break those candies with the teeth, they had, a thin delicate sugar shell, and I seem to remember that flowery taste mixed the sweet of sugar in my mouth, was given from its content, the Rosolio, a liquor from the Renaissance Italy.

In a moment, the candies in my mouth, disappeared, and they were really good.🍬😋

Pizza😋

What’s your favorite thing to cook?

My Street food

I made this pizza just a week ago. Like a “pugliese” with onions.

Recipe: wheat flour + salt + fresh brewer’s yeast + mozzarella + tomato sauce+ onions + my secret ingredients which I say just for you😃… Ginger and coriander.

And to cook it 🤔, in motorhome I don’t have oven, so I used a pan with lid, naturally with over low heat.👩‍🍳

Walk & collect…laurel leaves

When I’m walking in the woods, I always observe the nature around.

In this moment we live in Santiago do Caçem, one of the most nice city in alentejo, a south region of Portugal.

Santiago, anciently called Mirobriga, from its first habitants, the Celts, is a beautiful city surrounded by greenery, ideal for who, like me, loves natural habitats. where make walking.

Serra do Conde do Aviles

After Celts, the ancient Romans arrived on the territory and with them, the green culture was strenghten.

Here there are hills, a little like Rome…🤔 It can be they chose this territory because remembered them Rome??? Boh.

However, every hill is full of trees, typical of Mediterranean bush ( even thought we’re in west Portugal, on Atlantic Ocean), and one of these is Laurel.

Laurel, Lauracee family.

Laurel is an aromatic plant, usually used for cooking fish and meat; it gives a good taste to the dishes and also has healthy properties: astringent, diuretic, digestive, antiinflammatory.

It contains vitamin C, potassium, caffeic acid which lowers bad cholesterol and rutina for the proper functioning of the capillaries.

After I collect it, let it dry in a paper bag, and then, I put it in a glass jar and I use it to make infusions too.😄

Strudel, a sweet tradition😋

Write about a few of your favorite family traditions.

My family, don’t never have had traditions passed throw generations, but for the great passion of my dad for cooking, I inherited in my memory some recipes, typical of Milan, as “casola” “tripe” and from Cremona “pumpkin tortelli” and the cake called “sbrisolona”.

A cooking tradition created directly from my dad and his curiosity, is “Strudel” a Trentino alto Adige recipe.

<<My dad loved walking on Dolomiti, famous mountains in Trentino alto Adige. Every years, on summer ,with my uncle Franco and his family, we went always to Molveno in a hotel, where there was to work, a chef, who made a very good Strudel.

<A special Strudel needs passion, better have some Tyrolean genes😄, sweet apples typical of that area, raisins, cinnamon, pine nuts, sugar and puff pastry.>

I was saying… My dad, with Franco, his best friend, every day, after the walk, went to visit the cook in the kitchen and once they became familiar, he managed to have the secret of a delicious Strudel revealed only to him and to uncle Franco!>>.

Oh, I cannot reveal the secret to you; only my dad and uncle Franco knew it. I watched him, make it, many times, I can say I learned well, making an excellent Strudel, now with my variant, but the touch of my dad is irreproducible, it will always remain in my memory of taste.

I imagine that, in this moment, the two friends, will still be preparing a delicious Strudel…I can smell it.

Oranges 🍊 healthy food

Healthy food

Che snack mangeresti in questo momento?

I’d like to eat oranges 😋

Oranges are an healthy food. Rich in vitamin C, are ideal in winter to prevent and combat the cold.

Useful also to take away the headache, articolar pains because is a natural anti-inflammatory and maintain healthy the skin.

😄You know that… In the 1700, ships loaded oranges for sailors who spent a long time at sea, to avoid getting scurvy, a disease caused from deficiency of vitamin C.

The most famous growing places, that I know are Sicily, California, Spain, Portugal.

With Oranges , with taste I stay well😉🍊.

“Veggie Grow🥬”

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“Veggie Grow🥬” the vegetables garden in a plate

It is the innovative idea to eat healthy.

For you, who love eating vegetables, from now, with Veggie Grow 🥬, you can enjoy them always fresh, growing them directly on your plate.

Veggie Grow🥬, are selected and genetically modified seeds for hydroponic culture; their growth is faster than normal. Just 5 minutes to grow in water any type of salad.

How does it work? 1°) Choose which vegetable you want to eat – Veggie Grow🥬has a wide selection of vegetables seeds, sold in single dose sachets of 60 gr ( a right vegetable dose per meal) and also larger for all your needs, of family and for collective catering- 2°) put the Veggie Grow seeds in your plate with a water, ( water must cover the seeds) and wait 5 minutes. 3°) after about 5 minutes- it depends from the vegetables chosen- the seeds, in your plate, will have transformed in edible plant…Veggies are grew up!😀 and ready to eat.

Veggie Grow🥬the purpose

– Veggie Grow🥬 promote in the world the healthy eating, giving a product always fresh, to km 0, ideal for all who want to eat well.

– Veggie Grow🥬 is a green idea, to safeguard the earth’s resources: less intensive cultivation and overcomes the problem of drought.

Veggie Grow🥬 change the vision of the natural nutrition by making you grow your own food.😉

Playtime is time to experimental cooking

Do you play in your daily life? What says “playtime” to you?

I play, not every day, but I play.

Playtime is cooking for me.

I like cooking, using my fantasy, to get experimental recipes.

I start with an idea using what I already have at home and I combine food for aroma and flavor, making always new recipes.

The magnificent five

List your top 5 grocery store items.

When I go shopping, the first product which must never miss Is the salad called Red radicchio, rich in beta carotene, and vitamin C,

2°) deactivated brewer’s yeast which contains vitamin complex B,

3°) apples with vitamin C and good for intestine containing pectin,

4°) ginger anti-inflammatory, digestive and fat burning.

5°) Avocado rich in potassium and vitamin B9.

These are among the most important grocery items for me to put everyday on my table.😄,my magnificent five!

What fruit is it?

🤔

…from the <solinacee family> is an antioxidant, contain vitamin B group and potassium.

It’s good😋

Portulaca is…alimurgic food

In Italy but also in other countries, when you walk in a public garden in a city, in mountain or in the country side it’s easy to see at your feet a small plant called “portulaca”.

It makes flowers so, it stay very well on balcony 🌺but is an excellent food…from the street😆…omelette, salad,riches in omega 3 and cheap.

Easy to cook, in internet you can find many recipes.

Portulaca is part of tradition to recognize, pick up and to eat plants not cultivated, that grow wild.

Bon appetite!😃