Crostata & Mini Tarts with Custard Cream and Wild Plum Jam
Listening to: Sogna Fiore Mio - Ancient Southern Italy song by L'Arpeggiata
I am a firm believer in saying your dreams out loud.
Speak up to the universe, and you will set in motion enough energy for the Universe to provide for you.
Zaira, who entered my life one quiet, foggy day in January in Venice, is proof of this.
She, too, is a firm believer that all you want you should pray for to the Universe, and have faith that what is yours will eventually be given to you - or better, given ba...
Basic Herbal Beeswax Balm Recipe for Multiple Uses + Balm Post-Mosquito Bites
It was June 24th.
I was biking back home after a late afternoon, post-work gym session. The scenery, ever changing throughout the seasons week after week, is astounding here. I bike through sunflower fields, vegetable gardens, and an overgrowth of alfalfa - so, so wonderfully perfumed if let flower - equisetum, and lemon balm. There is even a little water stream in the trench below that did not succumb to this season's blistering heat, and gargles joyful, adding its voice to that of cicadas an...
Panino with Roasted Peppers, Pesto & Arugula {Midsummer Potluck for Peace}
There are noises here.
I heard people say they hate them.
If you walk into the pathways between bushes and trees, the first sound is the almost deafening one of cicadas, orchestrating a simultaneous undertow of a two-note song. There are many birds chirping. Far, in the distance, there is the verse of an animal I cannot tell what it is. And if you listen closely enough, you can hear the waves crashing against the promontory, invisible but present.
Our clothes, rubbing against our bodies. Our ...
Chamomile Honey Muffins {GF, Vegan-izable}
The countryside is full of surprises, and many of them I disclosed over the past month.
I found new foraging places and new paths, but little did I know I would even find my new studio.
So here are three surprises that gave me happiness from these past days.
A New Studio
A month ago my family decided to finally get rid of a lot of scraps and junk that was laying around the backyard, where my great-grandparents used to keep sheep, pigs and other animals. Today, that area is mostly dedic...
A Saffron & Roasted Elderflower Apricots Semifreddo for #CucinaconZaffy
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I started developing a strong love for drawing since I was very small. I still remember my frustration when, at 3 years old, I insisted on drawing on air and out of the white sheet only to learn that pencils did not work outside of tangible surfaces.
In middle school, art class was the only beacon of hope I had to cling onto and get to my 15's with a sane mind. My drawing we...
Our ‘Chiaroscuro’ Australia Retreat with The Macadames
Australia felt like a long, vivid, almost esoteric, lucid dream.
If not for the distance traveled, and the 5-cypher number indicating the amount of kilometers on the plane’s screen, it was so for the flora and fauna. Or for the smells, or the accents. But mostly for the sky.
In the nights in that opposite hemisphere, I kept perusing the sky in search of never seen constellations. Such irony it was that most of the stars would be clearer there than I had ever seen in the North of our planet. T...
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