Autumn cake. Pecans, pears, candied ginger and grape sauce.

Some people will disagree with me, but I admit it, I love the fall season. I love the colors and the smells, especially in Canada where the colors of the maples become outstanding.

Salty Focaccia with milk and ginger.

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In Italy we grow up eating focaccia, we enjoy it at any age, at any time of the day. You can imagine how much I miss it. In my country, maybe it would never came to my mind to prepare it, but since I’m here I wanted to try. After several disastrous attempts finally I found the texture that I was looking for.

Pea and ginger cream with ricotta and saffron

Christmas gifts always make me happy. They are even better when I‘m not expecting them. Especially when we talk about fine food surprises, that fruit and saffron jams and pure saffron. Oh what a great surprise! When my dear friend Olivia came in the bar where we had an appointment with a small paper bag in her hands, I realized immediately that in that bag there was something that I would madly love. Olivia and his companion Guido (almost future husband), like in the fairy tales, left the big city for the countryside around Siena.