10/02/2006
Manuale d'amore

This is one of the Italian films which arrives to Spain. The story is simple but interesting,as it shows 4 different phases of love:
- Tommaso falls desperately in love with Giulia and spends the rest of the episode trying to get her
- Marco and Barbara are a married couple in the middle of a crisis
- Ornella finds out that her husband is unfaithful and swears revenge
- Goffredo is suddenly left by his wife and tries to go on with his life,which won't be easy
So,if you want to watch a good Italian comedy,Manuale d'Amore is recommended.
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07/02/2006
Panna cotta

Panna cotta translates as "cooked cream". It's another tipical Italian dessert. Some people enjoy the panna cotta on its own, but it is usually served with a sauce which adds some sweetness (in the foto with strawberries sauce): the cream itself is supposed to be only subtly sweet.
Ingredients
- 1l of cream
- 100gr of sugar
- 4 eggs
- 2 packets of vainilla extract
- 1 cup of "amaretto" (liquor); you can change it by cognac
- some caramel
Preparation
- Beat the eggs and mix them up with the sugar and vainilla.
- Add the amaretto liquor and the cream.
- Cook it in a double boiler at the oven (90').
- Place into a container and cool to room temperature before refrigerating.
- Add some caramel on the top when is going to be eaten.
You can change the caramel and put on some fruit sauce (raspberries, strawberries...)
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05/02/2006
Tiramisu
As I have said you Moonlight. There's my TiramisĂș recipe!!!
This is a tipical dessert from Treviso. Stories are told about how Tiramisu was the favorite of Venice's courtesans, who needed a "pick me up" (the literal translation of "tirami-su") to fortify themselves.
Ingredients
The basic ingredients are 3 eggs, 250gr of mascarpone cheese, savoiardi, espresso coffee, liquor (marsala, brandy, rum), 3 spoons of sugar, and shaved chocolate.
Mascarpone is a triple-creme cheese. It's made from the milk of cows.
Savoiardi are sweet, little, fairly dry, finger-shaped sponge cakes. They are similar to "melindros" but harder.
Directions
- Beat until stiff the 3 egg whites.
- Mix up: the egg yolks, mascarpone and sugar.
- Add the 3 egg whites. You have to mix up until it's a cream.
- You have to add some of the liquor to the black coffee (it'd be cold).
- Dip the savoiardi with the coffee and liquor mixture.
- Put them in a container.
- Cover them with the whipped cream.
- Repeat the layers, finishing with the cream.
- Put some shaved chocolate on the top of it.
- Refrigerate for several hours before serving.
If you like chocolate, you'd put some of them between the different layers.
Enjoy it!!!
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