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💚 Here’s a storage tip@from@my kitchen to you

💚 Here’s a storage tip@from@my kitchen to yours!
My homemade Italian Wholegrain Breakfast Cookies for perfectly into 12-ounce glass jars with screw tops. They stay beautifully crisp (and beautiful to look at on your counter) and ready to dip into morning cappuccino. Get my recipe and tutorial for these healthy breakfast cookies in my previous post and on my blog (tap the link in my bio).

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☀️Buongiorno e buona colazione ~ good morning

☀️Buongiorno e buona colazione ~ good morning and good breakfast! These healthy oat cookies are my homemade dupe of the popular wholegrain Italian breakfast cookie, ‘Gran Cereale’ (meaning big cereal) biscotti by Mulino Bianco. Crunchy and barely sweet, they’re high in fiber and flavor with a satisfying texture and taste. These cookies are my go-to breakfast in Italy and I developed this recipe to replicate at home, making them gluten-free and super digestible with oat flour and plant based milk for an even healthier cookie (although you can use whole wheat flour and cow’s milk for the OG biscotti). Dip these crisp, honey-kissed cookies into a frothy cappuccino and pretend you’re in Italy!

Get my recipe on the blog by tapping on the link in my bio or visit: http://www.theartofitalianliving.com/

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I welcome the equinox and first day of Spring 🌿

I welcome the equinox and first day of Spring 🌿 with a reverent bow of gratitude to Mother Nature and offering of my asparagus risotto 💚. Amen 🙏.
Benvenuta Primavera!

@risobuono

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Crostata is Italian pie in both sweet and savory v

Crostata is Italian pie in both sweet and savory versions. Here are some of mine in the works and ready to serve (scroll to view). What’s your fave pie or crostata?
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Follow up news on the Italian Mimosa Cake I made for International Women’s Day yesterday (see previous post with video). It’s now gone and I thoroughly enjoyed every bite 😋. So light and delicate that it hardly had any calories 😂. I did make it with homemade GF sponge cake though 😇. I’ll post the recipe for next year’s #internationalwomensday ~ promise, but hold me to it🤞.

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🌼 Italian Mimosa Cake for Women’s Day🌼 To

🌼 Italian Mimosa Cake for Women’s Day🌼
To all my soul sisters out there…this cake is for you (it’s GF too)! Torta Mimosa is the traditional cake for International Women’s Day (Festa della Donna) in Italy, and I can’t think of anyone I’d rather share it with more than all my lady friends and followers who support and nurture me to do the work I love every single day.

Love you all! Happy Women’s Day 💛

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❤️Cooking tip from my kitchen to yours! Ever

❤️Cooking tip from my kitchen to yours!

Ever open a can or tube of tomato paste to use a little bit then forget it in the refrigerator too long? It goes bad after a couple months and is a shame to waste. Instead, transfer tomato paste to a freezer bag labeled with name and date. Lay it on a baking sheet and press into a flat layer about ¼ inch thick, making sure to press out all the air before sealing shut. I use a pastry scraper to smooth tomato paste and press out air. Freeze the bag of tomato paste until solid, then store it upright in the freezer to save space. It’s so thin and takes up no space at all!

Tomato paste lasts 3 to 6 months in the freezer as opposed to 2 months in the tube or container (if using canned paste, always transfer what you don’t use to another container before refrigerating). When you need tomato paste, just break off as much as you need (it’s easy to see a tablespoon amount) and toss it frozen into your pan. I always have fresh tomato paste in my freezer 🥰.

No more tomato paste waste❣️

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🎁 MY BIRTHDAY GIFT TO YOU! 🎁
It’s my birthday 🎂 but I want to give you a gift! I’m offering a $250 discount on bookings to my 2023 Taste Trentino Culinary Tours in the Dolomites. This gift is good for either of my 2023 tours—June 18-24 or September 3-9—and valid for reservations made by March 8, 2023. Just reserve your spot on my website before March 8 to get my birthday discount. Space is limited, so first come, first served cake : ).

As an official daughter of the Dolomites ⛰️⛰️, my tours are insider views of the Trentino-Alto Adige region of Italy—a hidden gem in the Italian Alps 💎that everyone’s talking about as the new must-visit travel destination.

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🎉It’s carnival time…let’s make Chiacchier

🎉It’s carnival time…let’s make Chiacchiere! These feather light Italian pastry fritters are my favorite sweet for Mardi Gras. In Italy we say anything goes during carnival…especially heavenly Chiacchiere where one is never enough!

CHIACCHIERE DI CARNEVALE ~ Makes 3 dozen

- 2½ cups/300g 00 or all-purpose flour, plus more for rolling
- Pinch of salt
- 2 large eggs, at room temperature
- 4 tablespoons/55g unsalted butter, softened at room temperature
- 1/3 cup/60g granulated sugar
- ¼ cup Grappa or brandy
- Grated zest of 1 lemon (optional)
- Vegetable oil or lard for frying
- Powdered sugar

Sift the flour and salt in a mound on a clean work surface and form a wide well in the center. Place the eggs, butter, sugar, Grappa or brandy, and lemon zest in the center. Whisk the wet ingredients together with a fork then slowly draw in flour from the inner walls of the well while stirring. Once all the flour is incorporated and a crumbly mass forms, knead the dough for about 10 minutes until soft, smooth, and elastic. Form dough into a ball then wrap in plastic or cover with an overturned bowl and let rest in a cool place for about 1 hour.

Using a rolling pin on a lightly floured work surface, roll the dough into a thin sheet between 1/8 and 1/16-inch/2-3mm thick. Using a fluted pastry wheel, cut the sheet into strips about 7 inches long by 1¼-inches wide (8 x 4cm). Cut a vertical slit in the center of each strip and pull one end of the pastry ribbon through the slit and out the other end to form a twist in the middle.

Heat 2 inches/5cm oil or lard in a wide, heavy sauté pan over medium-high heat until it reaches 350°F/180C°. Fry the pastry fritters in a single layer, without crowding, for less than a minute on each side until puffed and lightly golden.

Remove cooked fritters with tongs and drain on a wire rack. Once barely cool, arrange on a large platter and dust with powdered sugar. Enjoy the pastry fritters immediately or store in a cookie tin.

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