Last day in Milan, it is like 01.33 am and I am still packing, our flight will leave in few hours. It has been very very hectic these weeks, I wanted to post many things like my favourite places in Milan, the cute exhibition I saw the other day, some salad recipe, some snap shot I took when I was doing my photography project outside in the sun…but too little time.

I will be travelling for a while, but I promise to keep posting, I am sure there are zillions of things to share from other parts of the world. So, see you again soon, on the other side! Hugs!

The good thing about food in Italy is that every region really has their own specialty and character. Like now when I am just about bored with classic pasta-tomato sauce combination, the lunch today simply blew my mind. Marco’s brother who has just returned from attending wedding in Sardinia, gave us a bag of beautiful fresh Gnocchetti sardi, also called Ciciones, they are cute small Sardinian gnocchi that is made of semolina instead of potato in normal gnocchi. As the base ingredient is semolina flour, they are actually closer to pasta than gnocchi, but I don’t know why they are called gnocchi, next time I go to Sardinia, I will need to ask around about this :)

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Few days ago, I really miss my very good friend, L, and I also really miss her food, especially her tortilla :) We used to live in a cute attic apartment in Milan with two other people, with a tiny terrace where you can see Milan and the Alps. I miss our daily late breakfast (the sleepily walking in the kitchen kind of thing and the occasional coffee burning :) and saturday easy lunch and of course, her wonderful tortilla de patatas.

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Tenerumi is not my new friend, she is a new vegetable I discovered at the market this week, I think she has cute name :) It is basically the leaves of Cucuzzi, the Sicilian groud, I made a soup with it weeks ago. Finally today, I could make lunch with ease. It has been a hectic period for me, with projects pouring on me and travelling too. I was so tired, I did not even want to bring my camera with me. And if you notice, my photographs are a little different, I am using another lens now, bigger, heavier and I am still not used to it.

Back to Tenerumi, this is a typical dish from Sicily, that Pipo taught me (he and his family come from Sicily). Very simpe dish and if you don’t add the cheese in the end, it is a vegan dish. It is very simple but full of flavour (Tenerumi is very flavourful vegetable)

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