This is a traditional “mountain cake” recipe typical of Südtirol, the northern area of Trentino Alto Adige region, in Italy. “Schwarzplententorte” is the name used in the German speaking villages (schwarzplentenmehl means buckwheat in the local German dialects, other German names for this flour are buchweizenmehl or hadnmehl), but in the villages where people speak…
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Mákos Guba – Hungarian Poppy Seed Bread Pudding, with Vanilla Custard
This is an easy Hungarian dessert, to prepare fresh at the moment you need and to enjoy warm (but even when cooled down it’s good too) 🙂 and this time it was my wife to cook this recipe 🙂 Till I lived in Italy I never used poppy seeds, but here in Hungary is…
Kaiserschmarrn (Traditional Austrian Dessert)
Kaiserschmarrn is a quite simple dessert, that kind of dessert that makes you comfortable and that gives you a “home atmosphere”, especially if you serve it in the old way inside an iron pan, as they often do in Austria or Bavaria 🙂 Kaiserschmarrn is a sort of pancake which is then broken into smaller…
Persimmon Jam, with Quince and Ginger
Lately we went back to Italy, to my parents house, and since I saw that the persimmon tree in my father’s field was full of nice and big fruits, we decided to bring back some to Hungary and to make a nice and spicy jam, using also some quince and a little bit of ginger…
Fig Jam, my favorite :)
Autumn is not autumn without a good fig jam 🙂 This is probably my favorite jam (I often make Crostata with it!), and since always at home we had fig jam, made by my grandmother with our own figs. We still get some jam from my grandmother when I go back home, but since I’m abroad…
Crostata
It’s been a while without posting anything (in the last weeks we’ve been in Amalfi coast, Naples and Sicily, and we didn’t really want to use internet 🙂 ), so I think it’s time to do some new posts 🙂 This is one of the most typical cakes eaten for breakfast in the Italian families, and…
Polenta & Baccalá 