This cruelsome heatwave has finally ended yesterday – one can breathe again – and start cooking again! Some days ago the postman rang twice and brought me this lovely and delicious suprise all the way from Salzburg: homemade apricot marmelade by Nonna Rosa. And in my books – apricot marmelade only meens one thing: Palatschinken! […]
“Field of Flowers” – what a picturesque name for a square. It remains from the Middle Ages when this place in Rome was still a meadow. In 1869 the daily vegetable and fish market moved from Piazza Navona to Campo de´Fiori. The ancient fountain (“La Terrina” – the soupbowl) was once used to water the […]
Even that Rome isn´t that long ago I´m missing having tons and tons of caffé. Don´t get me wrong I love the viennese Kaffeehaus and spend way too much time there but the italian way of having a caffé at the bar is something else. Lucky me I´ll be soon back in bella italia! Until […]