Chlodnik: the magenta Eastern European cold beet soup
My best Polish friend has always been giving me shelter and a bowl of Chlodnik, the most colorful soup you would ever taste in your whole life!
Kitchen
The loss of (after) taste and smell due to covid-19
We are among the many people who experienced the loss of taste and smell due to covid-19, but as food lovers this was particularly hard to handle.
Grandma’s Enza French omelette or “eggs a meletta”
My grandma's recipe (which is not even a recipe) for French omelette is irreplaceable. If she was still alive, she would challenge chef Jacques Pepin and I'm sure she would win!
The witch’s meatballs with tomato sauce
You might be asking: 'Who's the witch?'. It's my mother-in-law who doesn't like cooking but makes the best overflowing meatballs with tomato sauce.
Grandma Lina cooks priceless pasta with mussels
Whenever I go back to the place where I was born in Southern Italy, a plate of pasta with mussels is there waiting for me, freshly cooked by my grandma, Lina.