Italian Meatballs and spinach with carrot come together with al dente pasta in the slow cooker for an easy comfort food meal the whole family will love.
Hi Everyone! Continuing with our traditional Christmas baking, today we have made an old favourite. Crispelle were a very popular treat that Nonnina's mom made back home. Prior to coming to Canada, they could not really afford to buy the ingredients to make cookies so many of their go to treats were made from simple ingredients - mainly savoury, and fried. Crispelle can be made in whichever way you would like and that is the beauty of this simple pastry; you can make it in strips like Nonnina's mom or in circles which is how I enjoy them. They can even be paired with different ingredients. Nonnina either makes them plain, with golden raisins or traditionally with Baccala (salt water cod). Any way you choose to enjoy this dessert, it is guaranteed to be delicious! Ingredients 4 1/12 cups of water 4 tsp of yeast for bread 4 tsp of sugar 8 tbsp of extra virgin olive oil 4 tsp of salt 10 cups of flour Sugar for dusting Preparation 1. In a large bowl pour together the water, yeast and sugar and let it sit until the yeast bubbles at the top. 2. Once the yeast has bubbled to the top, pour the mix into the food processor, add the oil and pulse until combined. 3. Add the flour to the food processor once cup at a time, and pulse until all combined. 4. Grease and flower a large bowl, and place the dough inside. Cover the bowl with a tea towel and set aside for about 3 hours to rise. 5. Once risen, fill a large pan with sunflower or canola oil and stretch strips of the dough apart, laying them gently in the oil. 6. Flip them over to cook on both sides and remove them using a slotted spoon when they are golden. Put them on paper towels to drain. 7. Sprinkle them with a dusting of sugar to finish. Do this as soon as they come out of the oil so that the sugar sticks. During this holiday season make sure to visit Nonnina's Kitchen for new traditional Italian Goodies! Don't forget to follow my blog to get new recipes and see what's cooking in Nonnina's Kitchen EVERY week! Buon Apetito! With Love From, Nonnina!
Palazzo Margherita, Italy “The Coppola Family Hideaways”– sounds like a quaint retreat with an Italian mama making your life pure heaven. Well, sort of, except swap your Italian Mama with a private butler and add a whole lot of Hollywood glamour. You know Francis F. Coppola as the Oscar-winning p
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" Amidst the amazing territory of refinement defined and created by Ibride, objects are in league with each other, whisper their presence and share with us the desire for the unique and the extraordinary." The Ibride design studio was originally conceived by Rachel and Benoit Convers, and became a reality with the close collaboration of Carine Jannin. Since 1996, the trio has created several small collections that can be qualified as "author design." In its latest collection " Secrets..." Ibride teases our senses and plays with our judgements. The series of bookcases connect us to a make-believe world. Hidden beneath portraits of Dandy - Rastignac, Edmond Dantes and Bel Ami - are small shelves designed to store our favorite books. In this collection inspired by the imaginary world of Balzac, Dumas, Maupassant, de Vigny and Flaubert, Rachel and Benoit Convers, the design team pay tribute to the theme of Secrecy. The Ibride design collection infuses a secret life to its objects, thus instilling a fairy tale atmosphere to our homes. " Secrets " was previewed in January 2011 in Paris, and will also be presented at Salon Maison & Objet in September. Bel Ami Chatterton Edmond Dantes Rastignac Rodolphe Courtesy Ibride Studio, France This post is also featured on the Huffington Post
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Italians do it better! Food, dessert — enough said.
For the first year of my son’s life, he had a fairly strong preference for his father, constantly wanting to be held by him and searching for him when he wasn’t around. Now that he’s a little older, he has become much more of a mammone, which is the word for a mama’s boy (or ... Read more
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I have a collection (only images!) of paintings by past artists that show women engaging in different types of fiber art. Not that it was called fiber art in the past - more like "womanly past times." Looking at these works gives me such a feeling of connection to women who lived so long ago and, like me, used fibers to knit, crochet, weave, embroider - to make the clothing and furnishings needed for everyday life. And to not just make serviceable items, but to embellish them and make them more than just clothing and fabric. As I'm sitting with my own work, I like to think of these paintings and these women. Here are some of my favorites: circa 56 BCE This piece, showing ancient Greek women weaving, is the oldest image I've found of original artwork. You can see the types of looms they used, upright and attached to the wall. The round shapes at the bottom of the warp threads are clay weights that held the threads down. And to the far left, you can see how the fiber was kept in a bucket and spindle spun. Weaving was an important tradition for Greek women and there are many stories in Greek mythology and writings that feature weaving - among them, Penelope weaving her father-in-law's shroud and one of my favorites, the weaving competition between Arachne and Athena. In the Middle Ages, needlework was seen as an appropriate past time for "well-bred" women. The tapestries that insulated those cold stone walls were all hand woven, fabrics from coarse cloth to fine linens had to be woven, and embroidery was needed on special garments. This illustration is from Concerning Famous Women, a book by Boccacio written in 1402 and now in the Bibliotheque Nationale in Paris. Look closely and you can see all stages of weaving going on - carding, spinning, weaving. And from the clothing the women are wearing, I can see that the queen is working alongside her lady-in-waiting as well as women who are dressed in the manner of servants. Jan Vermeer is pretty well-known since the movie Girl with a Pearl Earring. He did like to paint women. He probably didn't get a chance to do more than that as he, his wife, and their thirteen some children lived in his mother-in-law's house. And some art historians believe the girl in the painting was his daughter, Maria, not a servant. See this link for a discussion of the book/movie versus historical record. Dutch lace in the mid-1600's, when this painting was done, was made by rich and poor women alike - the lace was needed for trimming and could also be relied upon for extra income. The woman in this painting is making bobbin lace - thread on bobbins is wound around pins that are arranged in patterns on a cushion. These are all depicted in the painting, as well as the special lace making table that is used. This site has more information on the process. Jan Vermeer, The Lacemaker, c. 1669 - 70. Oil on canvas transferred to panel, Musee du Louvre, Paris. I love this oil by Adolphe Bouguereau painted in the late 1800's and showing a young (and very flirty!) girl crocheting. I can hardly see the thread she's using, but it looks like it is extremely fine. I believe this is still when crochet was used for making fine lace, so that's most likely what she's doing. William-Adolphe Bourgereau, Young Girl Crocheting. Date unknown. Oil on canvas. Eugene du Blaas, The Knitting Lesson, oil on cradled panel. And this oil, also from the late 1800's, painted by Eugene de Blaas is wonderful. He completely captured the look of heavy concentration on the young child learning to knit and the careful watching, without wanting to look like she's hovering, of the woman teaching her. While I'm not sure I want to be included in this particular gathering (although if I'd lived then maybe I would have), this Jeanne-Madeleine Lemaire oil painting makes me think of how nice it would be to have an embroidery group. I can just feel the camaraderie and friendly competition (I love the woman slyly peeking at her neighbor's work) and hear the great gossip! Jeanne-Madeleine Lemaire, An Afternoon Embroidering. Oil on canvas, private collection. Diego Rivera painted the ordinary people of Mexico going about their daily business and managed to make much of it look exotic and romantic - I'm not sure this was on purpose, but had more to do with accurately capturing the colors and atmosphere without using photo realism. This women is weaving with a backstrap loom much like is still used in much of Guatemala and southern Mexico. I love her yarn holder - I've been toying with buying a swift instead of using the upside down piano bench, but now I'm going to have my husband build me one of these. Diego Rivera, The Weaver, 1936. Tempera and oil on canvas, The Art Institute of Chicago. I hope these give you inspiration for your own work! Happy Creating! Deborah
Created by the Italian yarn arts group Sul filo dell'arte, I've been watching this breathtaking project unfold for awhile now and although I'm not entirely sure where it's headed or if it's complete - ie, is the plan to recreate the full piece in yarn? - there is enough completed that I'd like to share.
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So true.
