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Pasta with saffron, zucchini and sarrano ham, photo by Laurens de Vries of www.laurens.com

Fussili alla carbonarina

By On February 22, 2011 · Leave a Comment

As mentioned in my previous post and when we visited Milan last summer, I fell in love with a saffron, zucchini and ham pasta. The fussili alla carbonarina served at Tarantella, my (now) favorite restaurant is so different and full of flavor, that I needed to try it at home.

I wish I [...]

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Tarantella, restaurant on Viale Abruzzi, Milan, Italiy

my favorite restaurant – Tarantella

By On February 20, 2011 · 2 Comments

I don’t think I’ve ever really had a favorite restaurant before. There’ve always been a multitude of restaurants that were sure bets, with constant, good food, but a favorite, I’m not so sure about that.

But that’s changed.

Remember how Laurens and I visited Milan in June. We found this awesome restaurant on our [...]

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2010 in review

By On December 31, 2010 · Leave a Comment

Around these days people do their years in review. They tell their loved ones the highlights of the last year in their lives. Moves, changes of jobs, babies, pets, vacations come by in these stories. If I were to do a roundup like that this year, either by month or by importance, three quarters of the [...]

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Frozen pasta and a steak

By On November 10, 2010 · 1 Comment

“You defrosted this very well”, my dad joked, when he started on his ravioli. He had seen me take a bag of ravioli from the freezer. He didn’t realize I made it myself and froze it myself.

I told him and he still liked it - though he thought his joke was even funnier.

 When we made my [...]

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Decorating chocolates

By On November 2, 2010 · 20 Comments

Last Sunday we celebrated my in-laws’ 45 wedding anniversary. Some day I hope we get to celebrate our 45th anniversary (not wedding, as the chances for that are slim – not merely the  likelihood, but sheer age restrictions are present here!, but the us-being-a-couple-anniversary is hopefully doable.)
And if we get to do that, I [...]

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