Extra Virgin Chef

This is my friend's lovely, cosy, very lived-in and fully utilised kitchen in the heart of Munich. I didn't get her permission ...

Farfalle, a type of pasta, originated from northern Italy as far back as the 16th Century. Also known as "bow-tie" pasta, Farfa...

It's been more than 2 months since I started curing this piece of pork belly. I open it up to peep at this baby whenever my curiosity...

A creative basker we met on the street. How does he do it? I love the Italianos! Please also see my other posts on Italy: - an authent...

Today, we visited Luciano's working farm just 10 minutes drive from our farmhouse at Cretaiole. He had just slaughtered 2 pigs yest...

We are spending 6 nights here in our farmstay in Tuscany . As the temperatures are consistently sub-zero every night, one of the things w...

Was excited to be cooking in a Tuscan kitchen in a 14th Century stone villa. Last night, we took an overnight train from Munich to T...

Do I really need these? What an irrelevant question. Use these to love people! I went berserk over everything-truffle, truffle oil, t...

Taken on the iPhone  Medjool dates wrapped in Danish bacon streaks - an appetiser we ate in Germany and I said I would be making soon. ...

We had this for afternoon tea. One very pretty pie. With one very large portion. This portion below fed our entire family for tea. The ...

Germany is the best place in the world to go to a Christmas market and Nuremberg, where we are today, has the most famous Christmas marke...