Ribana's Flavour

Finally I managed to do it! Is quite a long time now that I'm fancying at doing the red velvet cake. But you know, when you're renting and you move every 2-3 years is difficult to have all the things in the kitchen but even with the simplest utensils, you still can make it.  Every recipe I've looked at, it mentioned the difficulty level high, so I was not very confident that I could make it. But never say never :) My inspiration comes from the recipe of Ernst Knam, the Italian Chocolate King. Original recipe here . Ingredients (3 layers cake): 150g butter, softened 375g granulated sugar 120g eggs (2 eggs) 5g salt 1 vanilla bean 30g red food colouring 50g unsweetened cocoa powder 300g plain yogurt 375g all purpose flower 10g baking powder 30g white vinegar For the frosting: 525g cream cheese, softened 150g butter, softened 300g powdered sugar 1 lemon zest  How to do it: Preheat oven at 175 degrees. Butter the cake round. Dust with flou

Are you a wine lover?  Today we have tried Nero d'Avola, one of the most important red wine grape in Sicily, Italy. It is named after Avola, a small town in south east Sicily where several hundred years ago, "the black grape of Avola" appears to have been selected by growers.  It has a very strong fruity perfume and has a warm and full-bodied flavour.  Nero d'Avola grapes give floral ripe black cherry and plum fruit flavours with a hint of spice.  A perfectly balanced wine to complete a host of food, in our case a delicious carbonara :) You need to try it!

Oh wow, my last post was in December 2013...Shame on me... Incredible how fast time flies...and unfortunately it will never come back. So, in between this crazy work life, I'll better try to find out a little time for me too...for my old sweet hobbies... a little bit of cooking, a little bit of eating, a little bit of photographing and a little bit of blogging... The life is not always easy but important is that we try to make it easier and always look ahead with optimism. My husband likes very much the rhubarb and I was looking for some recipes to make something sweet. Once I found the recipe, I went shopping. Most of the time I see at the supermarket the rhubarb imported from Australia, but of course the day I wanted to buy it, no rhubarb at the supermarket....this is always my luck. Anyway, since I wanted to make something sweet I have replaced the rhubarb with blueberries and voitla' the cake was exquisite. It is a very simple cake and you need only 15 to 20 m