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Posted on | January 27, 2012 | No Comments

Have you read about Paula Deen, the television host famous for her recipes? a triumph of butter and sugar, fried and fatty food gushing from all sides …

Some time ago she did coming out. She has been suffering from diabetes for three years.
Why hasn’t she say anything before?
Obvious. She just had to look for sponsors to continue her television program.
And then she turned her illness into business. Everything is business. Everything for money.

Probably her son will create his own business empire on the “misfortune” of his mother by offering healthy foods.

Moral? It is not gold all that glitters …

Beware of those who have experienced sponsors. They can not be free to say and do what they know or believe to be more correct and healthier about food.
It’s the death of freedom!

We really wanted to think about that with you, our readers.
Our site does not and will never have any sponsor.
Be sure. You’ll never read we are glorifying a food or an industrial product that does not convince us or we know it is not healthy.
It’s true that our site contains advertising but it is advertising that we do not control and that doesn’t control us. On the other hand we must earn at least to recoup the costs.

We are and always will be free to communicate honestly with our readers.

Carlo & Loretta

About panettone recipe …

Posted on | December 18, 2011 | 3 Comments

Welcome to my page!

Panettone recipe according Italian tradition

Panettone with fresh yeast

I’ve just had one of the greatest satisfaction in my life and want to share it with you.

I have noticed in the last days that some visitors have come to our panettone page in Italian from an American blog.
Well, today I decided to visit this blog and my surprise was great!

First of all its name: Little Homestead in the Desert

The young writer tells she found our panettone recipe and our video last year. She also tells she has the habit to look for Italian recipes in Italian to find real recipes.

Well, her first attempt wasn’t successful. She made the mistake most people do: non to follow my steps accurately. But the second attempt was so successful that her neighbor who was pastry chef and worked for Martha was very impressed and liked it.
Read her page (homemade panettone) for more details.

This year she published her own recipe (homemade panettone, a little bit of Italy in your kitchen) whose doses and ingredients are very similar to mine. The only difference is that she has substituted candied fruit with orange extract of liquor.

This is the real sign my recipe works and works well if a woman who doesn’t speak Italian has understood well the recipe written in Italian looking at our video, in Italian too.

But if you want not to make a great effort I remember you this year we have published the real Italian panettone recipe in English. Test it and let me know your result!

I created another panettone recipe made with felt flour. All its ingredients are organic. Fantastic!

Greetings from Italy

Loretta

Category: Christmas, Our original home cooking, The art of Italian cooking
Tags: christmas menu > christmas recipes > italian Christmas leavened bread > italian lifestyle > panettone > xmas real Italian dessert

Christmas gifts. Urbani truffles.

Posted on | December 9, 2011 | 12 Comments

Someone will certainly ask why I can talk about low-cost Christmas and after few days about truffles.

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The answer is simple. The Italian society is multifaceted. At present there are those who can afford (but is it really a luxury?) to buy truffles and those who are looking for tips to spend as little as possible. I don’t know how it is the matter outside Italy.
Anyway I think it’s fair to speak of both things. And then this is exactly my photograph at this time. Suspended as I am between the impulse not to consume too much and, on the contrary, buy something special, but parsimoniously. Otherwise, what Christmas might be?

But I was talking about truffles …
Truffles can be a great Christmas gift idea.
The truffle is a unique ingredient to flavor meat or fish. So at Christmas you can buy a simple rabbit and then make it a superlative dish simply by adding a sprinkling of black truffle. You need very little black truffle.
Even a simple spaghetti dish can get into a Christmas dish simply by adding this ingredient.

Another idea? polenta slices with a quail egg on the top,

Polenta slices with quail eggs and black truffles on the top

garnished with truffle slices.
A delicious but low cost dish for your Christmas menu or a celebration menu all year round. All tricks I learnt in my long stay in Spoleto. To make these delicacies you don’t need a lot of truffles.
And then the truffle, I’m talking about the black truffle of course, has another great merit. You can choose between the summer variety, less intense but more economical and affordable, and the winter variety, very fragrant, but much less economic.
Truffles for all budgets!

And now some recommendations.
Let’s start with our page dedicated to black truffle in which you can find many curiosities and recipes, including those, very simple, to make spaghetti with black truffles as I learnt in Spoleto.
And then the site from which I usually buy truffles. Urbani Truffles. The company is well known and doesn’t need my advertising, of course. But I’m talking about it because I knew the company and used its products when I lived in Umbria and secondly because I generally buy black truffles on this website.
Besides I found very interesting the new organic line. For example the vegetable sauce with truffles. It’s a pity the company doesn’t still sell it online but it ‘s easy to find its products outside Italy. I’m going to publish a recipe with this exclusive product. Ideal for celebration menu.

Greetings from Italy

Loretta

Category: Christmas, Lorett'a corner
Tags: appetizers > black truffles > christmas menu > italian food > italian recipes > starters > truffle recipes > xmas recipes

Christmas during the crisis. If you live in USA …

Posted on | December 4, 2011 | 5 Comments

… you can rent toys on this website. Toygaroo.

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I think it’s a great idea!
In “How it works” there is the full plan.

Add toys to your wishlist
Toys are delivered to your door
Keep the toys for 30 days or more
Return the toys and get a new shipment …How does it cost? only 24.99$ every 4 toys.
What about this idea?I think the necessity sharpens the wit. I don’t know how to translate our Italian phrase “la necessità aguzza l’ingegno” …

There are a lot of opportunities around the world to save money. It’s enough to “open well our eyes and ears”.
Thanks to Internet we can plan a great Christmas despite everything
Do you agree?

Greetings from Italy

Loretta