Caramelized Kumquats with Ginger
June 3, 2010, 11:32 p.m. | by Adriano Petrich | Categories: 5 ingredients or less dessert easy ice cream | comments
Kumquats at the market
There are only three seasons(although some people argue that’s only two) in Sao Paulo: spring, summer and fallwinter (pronounced as a single word outonoinverno)
Spring is when it is sunny, hot and rains every week; Summer is when it is unbearable hot, sunny and it rains every day (not all day long, but once ...
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Italian Cantucci
Feb. 8, 2010, 1:50 p.m. | by Adriano Petrich | Categories: coffee dessert Italian sweet | comments
The Italian biscotti
Italians again. They are a very important influence in Sao Paulo, but not all Italians are created equal.
Every region has it’s special food and we have it plenty: pizza from Naples, panettone from Milan, last but not least pasta and cantucci from everywhere.
Slightly dry, sweet and filled with almonds with a crunch.
They were ...
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Apple, cherries and rhubarb crostata
Jan. 27, 2010, 12:52 p.m. | by Adriano Petrich | Categories: dessert Italian pie | comments
The water
I have some pet peeves with pie fillings.
Fruits have plenty of water and cooking them releases all that water making the crust soggy.
One branch of though thinks that the solution is precooking. As expected I don’t think that that is the best solution (except in very specific dishes like tarte tartin).
Precooking fruits tends to ...
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