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With the new year, I have taken up a new routine of baking a loaf of milk bread every week. It all started on Christmas day, when I used The Little Loaf recipe to make a loaf to serve during lunch. I have made bread many times before, but I never found...

Last Monday I received an email from Street Feast inviting me to take part to #BloggerSaturday, an opportunity for London's best bloggers "to cook and sell anything they wish". My first emotions were curiosity mixed with fear: no way I could do it all...

At the end of January I spent a weekend in Rome visiting family and friends. My best friend Giovanna took me out for lunch in a new restaurant in the Trastevere, called Fish Market. We arrived at noon on a Saturday; early for Roman standards, where it...

Easter is around the corner and, although weather-wise it still feels like Christmas, at least we have an excuse to eat lots of chocolate! I never buy Easter Eggs for myself, as I think they should be given and received as a gift. I am not sure if this...

I know, today is the day to write about pancakes. It is Pancake Day after all. In Italy, however, we have different traditions and today we celebrate Mardi Gras, the last day of the Carnival. We celebrate Carnival with street parades and masquerade parties,...

Walk around Maltby Street Market on a Saturday morning and you will likely bump into half of London's food bloggers. Edgier, smaller and lesser known than nearby Borough Market, Maltby Street offers high quality food groceries as well as many places to...

You may have already seen this recipe, as I shared the link on Twitter and Facebook last Friday. It's a delicious Marzipan Apple Pie which I prepared especially for the Laura Ashley blog, on which it was featured last week. This time of the year, I always...

At the beginning of the summer I joined the We Blog Design team as a contributing blogger for their Coffee & Wifi series. My first post was about Embassy East, followed a few weeks ago by an article about Prufrock Coffee in Leather Lane, Clerkenwell....

Over the summer, while working at Street Feast events, I met a lovely girl called Victoria "Plum" and discovered her website Plumdiddlyumcious, a pretty lifestyle blog about fashion, food and London. After talking about photography a few times, Plum asked...

Last Saturday we took the train out of the city to have brunch with our friends Sam and Hannah in Amersham, a village in the Chiltern district of Buckinghamshire. They always rave about the food (especially breakfast) at Seasons Deli, so it was only a...

One of the highlights of my weekend trip to Zurich last month was our visit to Bear Brothers & Cow coffee shop in trendy Kreis 4. Few things make me as happy as visiting beautiful cafés and meeting fellow coffee lovers around the world to chat about our...

First of all, I would like to wish you a very happy and joyful Christmas! I hope you are having a great day, celebrating with your family, unwrapping presents, preparing lunch and eating amazing food! This is the first Christmas I spend in London and...

It's incredible what difference a number makes, how I feel things are better now that 2013 (the unlucky year) is over. I am welcoming the new year with open arms, a big smile and a lot of hope. 2013 was a year of adjustments after a 2012 full of changes....

Hello from Melbourne, Australia! I'm travelling with my husband for our belated honeymoon, so expect things to be a bit quiet over here. Just before we left London two weeks ago we had the chance to celebrate Diwali with a few friends. Diwali is the Hindu...

Riverside Feast is the latest street food event launched by Street Feast for summer 2014. It's a bit smaller than its big brother #DalstonYard, but #RiversideFeast can pride itself of the most stunning location: on the bank of the river Thames with views...

It's finally Friday again, so it's time to talk about weekend plans and brunch! What have you got planned? If you are in London, nothing beats having brunch in the sky at Duck & Waffle. Last month I took my parents there for Sunday brunch, as it's my...

Last week I was offered the chance to sample the new summer menu at Redhook, a restaurant, cocktail and oyster bar in Farringdon that specialises in seafood and steaks. I had already eaten there last year, for the Cornish Grill sunday roast pop-up, cooked...

This year I started my birthday celebrations a few days early with breakfast at Duck & Waffle. Located at the top of the Heron Tower in Bishopsgate (a few minutes walk from Liverpool Street Station), Duck & Waffle is a cocktail bar and restaurant, serving...

Molasses Bread is one of the many recipes featured on The Recipe Wheel, an ingenious cookbook by Rosie Ramsden which "explores recipe ideas visually". Each of the ten chapters has its own recipe wheel; at the centre of each wheel lies a basic recipe and...

One of the first recipes I posted here on Mondomulia was my mum's torta di mele. It was made with a simple sponge and a layer of apples, raisins and walnuts in the centre. My mum just visited me in London and, last Sunday, baked this cake for us. I took...

As I type this blog post, I am less than an hour away from turning thirty-three years old. Ugh! I don't like the sound of it and to be honest I haven't fully enjoyed my birthday after the big 3 0. It's something to do with getting close to forty! ;) I...

Despite having a shelf full of beautiful cookbooks at home, I'm always looking for recipes online and tend to use these 99% of the time. I can never plan in advance the dishes that I will bake, so having a place to look for recipes whenever and wherever...

This Balinese Chicken recipe is one of my favourite dishes to make for my friends and family. It's an easy recipe to make and it never fails to impress my guests. I have been meaning to share it on my blog for a while, but then I usually only blog about...

Do you have a favourite TV show or chef that inspired you to cook a new and challenging recipe? When the team at Virgin Media TV asked me this question, I thought about Rachel Khoo and The Little Paris Kitchen, a show that was aired for the first time...

Smitten Kitchen doesn't need introductions. The award-winning blog by New Yorker Deb Perelman is one of the most successful food websites in the blogosphere. Her recipes are a mix of hearty dinner dishes, light pastries and sweet baking goodness, presented...