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dolci – sweets

desserts, cakes and other sweet things

Taralli al limone (lemon taralli)

A few weeks ago I picked all the lemons from the trees in mamma’s yard. They’d had a bumper year but it is spring and the season has come to an end. I have been frantically using them all up – preserving them, baking cakes with them and scattering the zest on most savoury dishes. […]Read Post ›

Il tiramisù di Gemma (Gemma’s tiramisu)

A few weeks ago I took my mother to visit my godmother Gemma. They both arrived in Australia in 1950 through the sponsored migration program, although santola Gemma (as I call her) arrived a couple of months earlier. Her husband had been friends with my father back in Pola (Istria) as well as working with […]Read Post ›

Crostata di ricotta – a new favourite 

There is a saying that goes something like this: “one can never be too thin or too rich”, but I believe there should be one about “one can never eat enough ricotta”. That version  suits me to a tee because I have been going through a bit of a ricotta phase. This means that we […]Read Post ›

Lime, olive oil and yoghurt cake

My mother in law Wendy has a prolific lime tree. She is also very sweet and generous. So when Mark comes home from his weekly visits to his mother’s, I invariably find a little gift from her on the kitchen bench – a bunch of fresh herbs from her garden, a tin full of home-baked […]Read Post ›

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