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Christmas recipe: VANILLA PANETTONE

VANILLA PANETTONE is a great alternative option for the holiday season with an added ice cream surprise. Use Amaretto and Vanilla Ice Cream to give this recipe a twist. Although this is a perfect Christmas recipe, we love it all year round. Serves: 6 Prep time: 10 mins Ingredients 8 scoops of Vanilla Ice Cream (200g/400ml) 1 large panettone (14cm, 534g) 1 tbsp icing sugar 1 tsp cinnamon 1 tbsp…
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Recipe: Insalata Caprese (Tomato, Mozzarella and Basil Salad)

Italians would laugh reading this recipe. This is the simplest and yet the best looking salad ever! Insalata Caprese based on only Tomato, Mozzarella and Basil. Easy and so delicious. My favourite! This delicious recipe has been donated by the ASK Italian Cookbook out on 20th November 2012 whose sales will raise money for Great Ormond Street Hospital Children’s Charity. Serves 4-6 / Prep…
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Italian recipe: Antipasto Classico (Mixed Antipasti)

This recipe is very handy as it is useful to know what to serve guests at a home party before the main meal. Here you go the classic Italian antipasti. This delicious recipe has been donated by the ASK Italian Cookbookwhose sales raise money for Great Ormond Street Hospital Children’s Charity. Serves 4 / Prep: 10 minutes, or 1 hour 30 minutes if you make the bread dough from scratch…
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Italian recipes: Involtini di Melanzane (Aubergine rolls)

Melanzane (Aubergines) are some of my favourite vegetables. This delicious recipe has been donated by the ASK Italian Cookbook out on 20th November 2012 whose sales will raise money for Great Ormond Street Hospital Children’s Charity. Makes 8 rolls, serves 4 / Prep: 35 minutes / Cook: 20 minutes This quintessentially summer recipe was given to us by ASK Italian’s extra virgin olive oil…
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Recipe: Italian Pesto Burger with Roasted Peppers

Yummy recipe! Pesto Burger with Roasted Peppers, an Italian version of the traditional burger. If you ask me, a much better one! But I guess I am biased 🙂 Cooking Time: 15 – 30 mins Serves: 4 INGREDIENTS 5 level tblsp Sun-Dried Tomato Pesto, plus extra to serve (we used Sacla’ pesto) 4 rounded tblsp mayonnaise ÂĽ cucumber, roughly grated 4 rounded tblsp soured cream 500g minced…
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BooksCultur-Italy Ezine

Becoming bilingual: great starter books

Icklelingo has created a series of books that are ideal starter kits for all those kids who live in multilingual environments as well as the bilingual ones. We loved 100 Words / 100 Parole (Italian – English). My 6 year old son was born in London and he speaks English at school but at home we speak Italian. He has been raised bilingual and the biggest challenge for me as a parent is to…
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Cultur-Italy EzineFitness & Health

KIDS CAN ENJOY ITALIAN FOOD AND RAISE MUCH NEEDED FUNDS FOR GREAT ORMOND STREET HOSPITAL CHILDREN’S CHARITY

To help banish the back-to-school blues, children across the UK are being encouraged to savour the delights of Italian food while raising money for a good cause. This autumn, ASK Italian restaurants will raise vital funds for Great Ormond Street Hospital Children’s Charity by donating a percentage of sales from their scrumptious kids menus. The menu which includes a tasty crudité starter…
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Book review: Todo in Tuscany

Todo in Tuscany is about how a couple not only had the Dream, as many of us do, of starting an exciting new life abroad but how they actually did it (they bought a villa near the beautiful walled city of Lucca in Tuscany in 2007, while maintaining and running their UK-based business). What they hadn’t planned on was buying a house … with a dog attached. And they certainly hadn’t…
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Tuscan spelt soup

Here is a simple recipe for the Zuppa di farro – Spelt Soup – from Tuscany. Ingredients: 2 tbsp farro per person 1 onion 2 carrots Celery 1 tomato 1 courgette small amount of spinach 2 pork sausages mushrooms Method Cook farro (spelt) for 20 minutes in water and a little salt. In the other pan put a small amount of water and add onion until softened. Add all the other ingredients…
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Cultur-Italy EzineMumpreneurs & Mums at work

MUMPRENEUR'S TESTIMONIAL: RITA KOBRAK AND HER MUMMY BUSINESS IN TUSCAN HOLIDAY PARADISE

My name is RITA KOBRAK. I love travelling and I love Italy. The idea of mum and baby holidays came about while talking to other mums. Many said they did not feel brave enough to travel on their own with their babies and all the extra baggage that you need to take. This gave me the inspiration for mum and baby retreats in our lovely home in Tuscany. I went about trying to make the house child…
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