Hello 2010!

Finally I'm making my first post of 2010! Hope everybody had a great time. I had an amazing Christmas and New Year with Matteo's family around! We had so much fun together that the only thing I missed was my family. But we can't have everything. 2010 is starting in a good way and I'm happy. 2009 was a better year too (I will write about it later).

As I told you last year, Christmas in Italy was always with a lot of food. Two days (25th and 26th) just to stay at home and eat! Well, this year we were in Dublin and I'd like to make things in my way too, so we had the first celebration in the night of the 24th, with a great dinner and the presents being opened. And we had the Christmas lunch and the St. Stephen lunch too.

December 24th: strogonoff

December 25th: snacks, risotto and frittata

December 26th: pasta al forno

December 26th: more frittata

Everyday: cupcakes

My sister-in-law ate my vegan cupcakes for the first time and she loved them! She stayed here until today and we had so much fun! Hope she can come back more times this year. And, of course, we kept cooking delicious vegan food all these days!

Special cupcakes for my sister-in-law, Elena. She loves blue!

Omelets (recipe from the Vegan Brunch book)

Savory and sweet pancakes

Happy 2010!
Go vegan!

Back on track!

After twenty days off in Brazil, I'm back! I had some amazing days with my family and best friends. I will write about some vegan food and places next week, I swear!

Back at home two days ago, we didn't have a lot to eat, so we decided to finish with some leftovers first before buying more food. So the lunch yesterday was strogonoff! I used the usual recipe, but with a special touch: I added small vegan cheese cubes after everything and let it cook for 2 minutes (before it starts to melt). This tip came from a Brazilian girl that I met on my flight from Belo Horizonte to São Paulo (yes, Brazilian people talk to everybody around them). Her name is Carolina and we spent 1 hour talking about food! She gave me a special recipe of a "white cheesy strogonoff" that I still have to try and post here.


So, if you have some vegan cheese around, try to add it at this strogonoff recipe and if you don't you can add some tofu!

PS. The book about coffee in the back of the picture was a gift from one of my best Brazilian girlfriends, Cinthia! She loves coffee as much as I do! ;-)