Nonna Marcella, my grandma, oh she passed me so many recipes, either chatting lightly at the table, over a per

When I was a child mum didn't have much time to cook dinner, she would come back home late from work, she was

So, tell me, when do you call it a day and wear your most comfortable pajamas? Normal people probably would ch

It's time again to talk about my complicated relationship with my sourdough starter. It's just like the relati

Welcome September. September is the perfect time of the year, along with January, to focus on your good intent

Before mobile phones, before text messages and before Skype, when I used to go on holidays at the seaside with

I have never waited so eagerly for my holidays like this year. I will go again to the seaside, in Maremma near

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When you walk hand in hand with someone, well, it is pretty special. You trust the other person, choose a comm

A few months ago we were watching Eat, Pray, Love, hungry from the first scenes of Julia Roberts enjoying her

These tartlets are for those who are young at heart, for those who still want to play and do not take themselv

If there's one thing the Italians know how to do properly, well this is celebrating, whether it is the patron

Everyone wants to be special, let's face it. We nurture the feeling of having something inside which is unique

May has proved to be an unexpected and surprising month. I had looked at it with some anxiety, because I call

You might have already noticed from my Facebook, Twitter and Instagram, but hey, I'm back! and I am bursting w

The coffee shop was simple and cozy: a long glass counter, polished to perfection, where cakes, scones, eggs,

I am an easy to be persuaded woman, you just need a bunch of flowers and I'm sold. In this case the flowers we

Hi, my name is Giulia, I have a problem and I would love to share it with you: I lack the sense of measure. I

We wanted to give Zita a surprise, we've planned this baby shower - veg party for weeks. Oh, she will love it!

My favourite country road stretches from my house into the nearby wood, shaded by four oak trees and speckled

Well before dawn she packed her sack for a long day of mountain trekking: the proper shoes, a bottle of water,

News always scare me a little bit. Even more than a little bit to be honest. What is strange is that I also li

It was not supposed to ba a blogpost, it should not even be a studied photo. It was a careless day with friend

On Monday I had one of the first cooking classes of the new season and we made cecina, also known as torta di

Easter came and along with it came the perfect time to renew the pretty coat, or the black patent leather shoe

There is lunch and there is dinner. There are many recipes that can be made indifferently for your midday meal

Walks in the countryside are a constant in my life. I wear my walking shoes and I go out, and what is a famili

I used to imagine my life as a single woman in my new house a little bit different. I would have chosen freely

I would have never expected to talk about love on my blog, especially on St. Valentine's day. As you have prob

Being a country girl, in my eyes Florence is a city, it is great and wonderful. The view from Piazzale Michela

Lately I have often lunch with Grandma, we live so close that we enjoy the time we spend together eating and t

Disclaimer. In this post I'm talking in third person of two different me, Giulia and Juls. I'm not going nuts.

In this first month of the year I took it easy, at leisure I guess. After the move and the breath of fresh air

When I was a child every Saturday we would go to San Gimignano to visit my grandfather. We would arrive in the

You have to start somewhere. A brand new year, now almost 360 blank days to be invented and packed with new ex

Pasta Del Verde asked us which is our secret in the kitchen. I've been wondering about that for a while, too,