Chilled classic rice pudding

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I’ve been obsessing over rice pudding lately. It all started when a friend told me about a rice dessert that can send him straight to heaven. The bad news is that he’s not really good at relaying details, and even worse, the lady who makes this divine concoction guards the recipe pretty closely. The only [...]

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Welcome to the New and Improved Conviviando!

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Welcome to the new home of Conviviando! I had barely set up shop over at “conviviando.wordpress.com” that my techie brother shot it down from every p.o.v. Imagine the hearbreak I felt over the countless hours spent polishing my very first blog..However, he had a point and I rushed to fix things. This is the result. [...]

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A gift of spices

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Yay! It’s like Christmas came early this year. A visitor from a land FAR FAR AWAY has stopped over in Dubai and presented me with the gift of spices from an authenthic souk. OK, granted I can readily recognize almost every single one, it still feels like I was given something precious that has travelled [...]

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Venus Black Rice with Prawns and Calamari

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The first time I had black Venus rice was at a posh Italian restaurant a few years back. I remember that it was paired off with scallops and calamari and veeery good.  Exceptional aroma and flavour aside, I was fascinated by its choreographic quality. Fast forward a few years.. I was browsing the aisles of [...]

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Gizzi Erskine’s Creamy Smoked Salmon & Peas Spaghetti

I read of this recipe via [The Good Mood Food blog] (http://www.thegoodmoodfoodblog.com)  by Donal Skehan.  Have to say that I’m crazy about this new wave of cooks/stylist and all around creative people who are such an inspiration to young people everywhere. When I first saw the picture on Donal’s blog I decided to try it right [...]

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Nocino

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Nocino is a dark, spicy liquor made with unripe walnuts, green skin and all. I decided to give it a try as the first experiment featured in this blog due to the simplicity of the procedure and the almost magical rituals involved in making it. There are so many recipes and variations across international borders, [...]

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Cucumber sandwiches

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My obsession with cucumber sandwiches started a few years back while reading “Seeing a large cat” by Elizabeth Peters, a historical novel centering on a formidable turn-of-the-century archeaologist getting in trouble while digging around for Egyptian mummies and the sort..Amelia Peabody, that’s her name, was very particular about her afternoon tea AND her cucumber sandwiches. [...]

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Even French ONIONS are pretty! 

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I have a paper bag full of my latest booty from the fruttivendolo: french onions from France..Call me shallow but I just couldn’t resist taking home these picture perfect specimens and treat them with the reverence they inspired.  I’m making French onion soup to warm up this dreary-cloudy-raining morning. Slowly stewed and carefully caramelized, these [...]

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