Tomorrow I have to go Christmas shopping, I tell you: pasta for lasagne, cream butter, red wines, sparkling wines which in our country are like champagne, chocolates, especially Ferrero and Lindor, panettone and pandoro. What Italian sweets brands do you know?
Laudable initiative, at Christmas I prefer to give than receive, I like to see the satisfied smile of those who receive something they would like but cannot. When I was on Facebook, I met a lady of Northern Ireland. We wrote to each other on WhatsApp even though I was no longer on Facebook. Then in 2018 she and her husband…
Here, due to the energy crisis, cooking in the oven is a luxury, we use the gas stove. I'm sorry you're alone, but you shouldn't take Christmas too seriously, the proverb says "better alone who are badly accompanied" If you can, cook for people who can't get a meal a day, for the poor, for the last, God will appreciate it
Hi Elsa, what you describe to me is a regional tradition, in Italy on Christmas Eve someone used to eat 13 courses of e (the number 13 comes from the Catholic tradition) fish . This is done in southern Italy where there is an abundance of fish. . I live in the north, only plains and mountains, we don't have fish and we use…
In Italy they make many types of Christmas desserts, depending on the region you live in, personally I make butter biscuits, similar to English shortbread. My mother-in-law made typical sweets from southern Italy, purcidruzzi, she kneaded water and flour, like making bread but without yeast or sugar or salt, then she…