I’m doing better than I thought here in my Shanghai kitchen. Before leaving I had no idea what tools I would find, ingredients, if I wanted and could mess up. But after some initial defaillance I am more or less organized. And when I’m not at home because of travel, returning home or for bureaucratic...
The carrot cakes make me the effect of apple cakes, you have just to take them out of the oven to recreate that beautiful and comfortable feeling of home. And everybody will enjoy it. I’ve tried endless versions, but my favorite for the hot season is this one, the carrot and coconut cake, with a...
I love jams and marmalades. I eat them every morning on bread, with my cup (ok, two) of tea. Except when there’s a cake. Or I decide to combine the two things and bake a cake like this, a soft cake variegated with jam. Lots of jam, of cherries, beautiful red that stands out in...
I could not wait. I couldn’t wait to have them on my hands again! Yes, I’m talking about strawberries. Because despite all the magnificent exotic fruit I have every day here in Shanghai, I anyway expected them so much!. And after eating a kilo of them “nature”, my satisfied neurons started thinking about what else...
These cookies with cranberries are just the latest in a long series. Oh yes, I’m back to the biscuit period: every time I think about what I could bake, they come to my mind, new recipes invented at the moment, or old warhorses. The fact is that I’m always kneading them. Fortunately, here too, on...
