The ultimate Chocolate Covered Oranges: tangerine and orange slices dipped in dark chocolate and sprinkled with red pepper flakes for a nice kick . It is that time of year ago, when our orange trees are so loaded the branches started breaking. Which means there are oranges and tangerines all over our kitchen. Don’t you just love the fresh smell of citrus peels all over the house ? It is the best part of winter in my humble opinion, definitely not the cold, the barren trees and not the snow, but ...
Desserts
Strawberry Tiramisu Recipe
The best ever strawberry tiramisu dessert, made with creamy mascarpone cheese and imported Italian ladyfingers cookies that are dipped in a vanilla strawberry puree. Unlike the original version, this easy, no bake dessert is made without coffee, without alcohol and If you so choose without eggs. For those of you who feel uncomfortable having raw egg yolks in your dessert, feel free to leave them out. Simple as that! I won't lie tough, It is so much fluffier and luscious with them ...
Banana Bread Cake
An easy, to die for banana bread cake filled with creamy Mascarpone cheese and covered in a silky lemon glaze! Ok, so Is it banana bread or cake ? What's the difference? Well, it is a cake like banana bread technically. Like a bread but way better. Like the best banana bread cake I’ve ever made, because on top of the moist ricotta cheese dough, it also has little pockets of Mascarpone cheese all throughout. Killer! And just because it is the holiday season, I also whipped up a ...
Best Acorn Squash Recipe with Vanilla Rum Sauce
The most decadent, best acorn squash recipe with vanilla rum sauce and smooth vanilla bean ice-cream. You need this in your life. There are so many recipes I like to share with you here, many of them that I jotted down long time ago, many of them that I have to retake photos of, because of that tragic computer death. In a way it is actually a good thing as it allows me to really see how I’ve grown over time, both as a content creator but also as an artist. Yours truly: The Foodie Picasso ! ...
Italian Tiramisu Recipe
The best authentic Italian Tiramisu recipe. A no bake cheesecake like dessert that’s brimming with espresso and vanilla, the ultimate pick me up! Authentic Italian Tiramisu One of the most popular desserts in the world originally from the Veneto, a classic Italian dessert traditionally made of lady fingers sponge cakes dipped in espresso and amaretto then topped with whipped mascarpone cheese. It’s easy to make but takes some planning. Tiramisu literally means “pick me up, cheer me ...
Berry Pizza with Whipped Ricotta Mascarpone Cheese
Goddess Dessert Berry Pizza with Whipped Ricotta, Mascarpone, Honey and Vanilla Blackberry Blueberry Sauce! | Berry Pizza food style by Florentina | food photography by MihaMatei.com | This to die for cheesecake like berry pizza is for you! Because whipped ricotta and berries you guys! Have you ever had a berry pizza before ? If you did, then you know why I’m so excited about it, and if you didn’t then i’ll just tell you that it is like a lovely piece of cheesecake. Imagine that ...
Honey Balsamic Roasted Figs Recipe
Sicilian honey roasted figs with vanilla and aged balsamic glaze. Lovely served with goat cheese, perfect as a pastry filling, pizza topping, in a salad, or have them for dessert over whipped ricotta or frozen yogurt. Roasted Figs We came home from Sicily to a loaded fig tree in the back yard, so these divine balsamic figs with honey were begging to be made. I brought a nice big jar of wild Sicilian honey, and this was just the perfect occasion to dive into ...
Granola Peach & Cherry Fruit Crisp Recipe
Peaches and cherries have swept me off my feet this week, hence the obvious fruit crisp recipe. Something I would normally make in the fall, because usually baked cranberry apple crisp happens on chilly fall and winter day; around our shack anyways. But that has changed now, thanks to an abundance of perfectly ripe succulent yellow peaches all around me. And so I feel the world needs a healthy summer fruit crisp recipe, and I’ve obliged of course. Black tart cherries and extra sweet peaches ...
Peach Sorbet Recipe
An easy peach sorbet recipe to keep us cool and refreshed during the hottest of summer days! Are you ready to have your mind blown by this peach sorbet recipe ? I’m just kidding kids, sorbets are the easiest thing to whip together in no time. I think it is funny to actually call it a peach sorbet recipe, but since this is a recipe journal i might as well add “recipe" to it. Stupidly simple, but amazingly delicious, healthy and refreshing on hot long summer days like today. Like an Italian Ice ...
Ricotta Lemon Muffins Recipe
Easy, fluffy, lemony and moist from creamy ricotta cheese, this is the only lemon muffins recipe you need! Today is a great day to crank up the oven and make the ultimate Lemon Muffins from scratch! Welcome to Muffin School dear ones! if you landed on this page, I suspect you might be really fond of muffins. Which is great, because today we are going to implement all those secrets we learned when making the ultimate blueberry muffins, and apply them to today's Lemon Muffins Recipe. We ...