I'll save the world later

As my husband says, (finally) a useful post. No, just joking. He just said it may be worth sharing this recipe with you: homemade breadsticks. Grissini in Italian. Have you ever found yourself found yourself with some friends coming for lunch, no ideas for an appetizer, no time to go foodshopping and no time to do elaborate things? If the answer is yes, you are probably the parent of a baby. Welcome to the club, just know you are not alone. Jokes apart, I often find myself getting peckish in the middle of the morning or afternoon. Or after dinner. Yes, I am often peckish. Cookies and chocolate are very attractive but not the healtiest choice and also sometimes I crave for salty snacks. But time is a precious resource these times and I need something simple to prepare. Therefore I did some experiments and invented a recipe for homemade grissini. Here you go: Ingredients: - 300 g flour - more or less 100 ml cold water - 1 tbsp olive oil (EVO) - 1 tsp salt - ground rosemar...

So, it's Halloween time...yay!!! Just kidding. I've grown up in Italy, where Halloween is not part of the culture. The first time I heard about it was probably reading Peanuts and all the comics with the big pumpkin. Until recent years, Halloween stayed where it belonged. Not in Italy or among Italian people, where superstition is rampant and celebrating death and horror was taboo. The times, they are a'changing, apparently. I am not in Italy any more, but I hear that celebrating Halloween is now very trendy, almost compulsory. There are even parties in school for this occasion as (maybe even more than) for Christmas. Anyway, the place where I live now is no exception and today in the canteen people where talking about the thematic parties of the week end. But I am old and grumpy and boring. So this post won't have much to do with Halloween. The only thing I like about Halloween are...pumpkins. I like eating very much. And luckily enough, I like cooking...