Sunday’s ritual. Drive down to the nearest village, Pieve Santo Stefano, built around a very small river Tiber, the one that flows through Rome. It’s been an incredibly dry summer so the water level here is super low. Sunday Mass. which contains one of the famous ceramic works of Giovanni della Robbia . then a …
‘Meatballs’. I’ve been in a real ‘food funk’ lately. Bored of cooking the same old stuff, bored of children with unadventurous taste buds, bored of juggling different mealtimes due to various commitments.. (seriously why scheduling a cricket match for 12.00pm???? It stays light till gone nine o’clock, surely the power that be could give family …
How ‘mamma’ makes it. 500gr of mascarpone (or 250gr mascarpone and 250gr ricotta, for a lighter version) 5 eggs 5 tbs of sugar (I use caster sugar) cocoa powder 4/5 cups of coffee (with milk) Whisk the egg whites till you ‘cut them with a knife’… In another bowl mix the yolks and the …
Avocado – Persea Americana – Alligator pear… Not a huge fan. I’m ok with a guacamole dip… mainly because of the tortilla chips though… I think it’s the mushy texture. Slimy too. It’s weird, come on admit it, you avocado-philes out there. None of us in the family are huge fan… in fact it …
So… I might have sent Mr M and No 2 off to a hockey game at the wrong time today. Like an hour earlier kind of time. Yup. My bad. And the game is far away. And today is very cold. I felt the need to bake cookies to atone myself with them… although if it’s true …
Mr M arrived back from his business trip to China early this morning which is possibly the worst time to arrive in this house ever. Bed heads, grumpiness, cries of ‘I don’t have a shirt’ for school’ or ‘we need more cereals’, me telling everyone to hurry up. Not good. He sat through all this with grace …
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