The mood is deeply autumnal, and even the flavors in my kitchen are influenced by it. I am looking for chestnuts, cabbage, sweet potatoes, pumpkin … Often simply roasted. But with today’s recipe, I don’t even light a stove: let’s prepare a delicious raw marinated pumpkin.
With the heat the cente of the house it becomes the fridge. The second door that you open when you return home, looking for something fresh. And how nice when you find a tasty little sweet! Like these homemade bounty.
Back in Shanghai after a short Italian break, I found the summer exploding in all its hot humidity. And between jet lag, temperature and an empty fridge this mango and coconut soup was the first thing I prepared. That just a blender is enough and you don’t have to cook anything. And with that exotic...
When I go to the grocery store here in Shanghai I let myself go much more instinctively than I did in Italy. When I see an ingredient that smiles at me I grab it without thinking about it: maybe it was a lot that I didn’t see it or it’s likely to be there by...
I’m back to Shanghai, to my kitchen, to my gimcrackery. And after a month of absence I let you imagine the chaos and things to do to resume the rhythm, to give back a kind of cadence to everyday life. Time to play in the kitchen is reduced to the bone. But not for this...
