WafflesYES!

Sunday is kind of a lazy day: you try to recover from Saturday evening and regain your motivation for Monday and this often involves a sofa and a movie. And usually Sunday is the "saddest" day of the week for me because I always have to say goodbye to special people I visit or who visit me... so chocolate is the right way to fuel up body, mind, and heart!

This is why I made chocolate waffles for us all on Sunday! Well "made" is a bit exaggerated, let´s say I assembled them. My boyfriend keeps promising he´ll lend me his waffle machine, but since I still haven´t seen it, I had to buy some ready made ones.

So this is what I did: I went to the supermarket, picked the chocolate ones, payed € 1,99. I went home, opened the package, turned on the oven, placed them in for a couple of minutes. In the meantime I whipped some cream, chopped a banana, took from the shelf the chocolate topping and sprinkles.

Then I just put one thing on top of the other and there you go: extremely delicious and satisfying Sunday waffles!

Enjoy ♥

Martina

P.S. I hope I´ll be able to post the real recipe soon.

Aperitivo muffins

The weekend is over . . . but it was a good one!

The weather was nice, I went riding, walking the dog, I saw friends, had hot punch, ate chestnuts in front of the fire, played monopoly, took pictures, and baked!

I want to share with you a very simple savoury muffin recipe you can do to have a little something to bite during your happy hour (or as we say in Italy: aperitivo). 

Ingredients:

250 gr. flour

250 gr. of cheese (I prefer parmesan, but you can also use cheddar, gouda or emmental)

2 eggs

250 ml. water

200 ml. milk (or water again if you want to make a lighter version)

50 ml. olive oil

basil or sage if you like

Procedure:

Beat the eggs with the water, milk and oil. In a separate bowl mix the flour, the cheese and the basil/sage. Then stir both mixtures together until smooth. 

Bake in the preheated oven at 190°C for 20 minutes; when well risen and golden brown they are ready.

Eat while still warm so the cheese will go stringy.

Don´t forget your aperitivo: I love to combine them with a spritz Aperol and Pimm´s!

Enjoy lovin´ from the oven ♥

Martina

Double trouble caldron bubble

Trick or treat? Treats, treats, treats! Lemon curd muffins, apple crumbles, chocolate brownies, cake-pops, and sweet bread. No tricks, only delicious treats this Halloween.

And by the way I want to wish a happy and spooky birthday to my brother, my little monster, and shrieking creature Egon!

Enjoy the sweets and this spell

from Macbeth

of William Shakespeare

In a dark cave. In the middle a caldron boiling. Thunder. Three witches.

Thrice the brinded cat hath mew´d.

Thrice and once, the hedge-pig whin´d.

Harpier cries: ´tis time! ´tis time!

Round about the caldron go;

In the poison´d entrails throw.

Toad, that under cold stone,

Days and nights has thirty-one;

Sweletr´d venom sleeping got,

Boil thou first i´ the charmed pot!

Double, double toil and trouble;

Fire burn, and caldron bubble.

Fillet of a fenny snake,

In the caldron coil and bake;

Eye of newt, and toe of frog,

Wool of bat, and tongue of dog,

Adder´s fork, and blind-worm´s sting,

Lizard´s leg, and owlet´s wing,

For a charm of powerful trouble,

Like a hell-broth boil and bubble.

Double, double toil and trouble;

Fire burn, and caldron bubble.

Scale of dragon; tooth of wolf;

Witches´ mummy; maw and gulf

Of the ravin´d salt-sea shark;

Root of hemlock digg´d i the dark;

Liver of blaspheming Jew;

Gall of goat, and slips of yew

Silver´d in the moon´s eclipse;

Nose of Turk, and Tartar´s lips;

Finger of birth-strangled babe

Ditch-deliver´d by a drab,

Make the gruel thick and slab:

Add thereto a tiger´s chaudron,

For the ingredients of our caldron.

Double, double toil and trouble;

Fire burn, and caldron bubble.

Cool it with a baboon´s blood,

Then the charm is firm and good.