Very Good Recipes of Food from Alessandra Zecchini
There are 36 Food recipes on the blog Alessandra Zecchini. (1419 on all the blogs)
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Fashion Food
By Alessandra Zecchini
05/18/13 06:53
I am thrilled to feature in the Autumn-Winter edition of New Zealand Fashion Quarterly Entertaining with ten pages of Italian vegetarian recipes. Thank you to fashionable Fiona, FQ editor, and art director Marcel (he found some beautiful props too!). It...
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Food market in Cusco (Mercado de Wanchaq), Peru
By Alessandra Zecchini
05/02/13 21:12
If you go to Cusco look out for this place, the name is Mercado de Wanchaq, it is mostly a food market and there are hardly any tourists here (they are all in the craft markets in the touristic part of the city), but plenty of locals selling and buying...
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Postcard from Santiago, and meeting a food blogger from Chile
By Alessandra Zecchini
04/07/13 03:58
We only had one day in Santiago, so the sightseeing was a bit rushed (and it is a big city!), but we still managed a stroll in the city centre in the afternoon, a museum the morning after, and a special dinner with a Chilean Food Blogger (scroll down for...
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Raw Food Pastry Class with Slow Food Waitakere
By Alessandra Zecchini
03/26/13 10:52
Unfortunately I won't be in New Zealand for this class, yes, I am off traveling again, will keep you posted... see if you can guess where I am going! But I really need to share this because I had other classes and dinners with Eri and she is really talented....
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Ethiopian food: Slow Food dinner at Cafe Abyssinia
By Alessandra Zecchini
03/20/13 05:10
Last night I went whit the Slow Food Waitakere group to Cafe Abyssinia for dinner. What a great evening, I even got a chance to wear my Abyssinian skirt! Do you like Ethiopian food? For more photos click here. Photos by Alessandra Zecchini ©
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Eating horses and Lies on the Plate, a must read from Slow Food International
By Alessandra Zecchini
02/24/13 01:18
Being a vegetarian has many advantages, and one is that I don't eat horse simply because I don't eat beef either (or lamb, or pork, or chicken, or... you name it). Of course you never know these days! I never buy ready made food as I tend to cook from scratch,...
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Mountain pawpaw with lemon and sugar, and a Slow Food visit to the Grey Lynn Community Gardens
By Alessandra Zecchini
11/19/12 05:47
Yesterday around 20 members and friends of Slow Food Waitakere visited the Grey Lynn Community Gerdens, an inspiring place. Our hosts were gardeners Fionna Hill and Lynne Walker and I would like to thank them for welcoming us. If you like to see more photos...
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On the Slow Food Waitakere blog
By Alessandra Zecchini
10/06/12 17:00
We have a new writer on the Slow Food Waitakere blog, Clinton George, I love his post about the latest event: Modern Japanese Cooking Class. Check it out by clicking here, Clinton wrote the recipes too (so efficient!) and I love the way he manages to use...
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New Zealand Food Bloggers Conference 2012, Wellington
By Alessandra Zecchini
08/30/12 06:44
Last week I attended the second New Zealand Food Bloggers Association Conference (in Wellington) and it was .... AWESOME! (And I am sure that all the bloggers who where there with me will agree with me) I need to add that this is only our second conference,...
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Food styling and props for a photo shoot
By Alessandra Zecchini
07/30/12 04:20
Usually I don't like to 'over-style' or use too many props. Like for ingredients often less is best (unless you are making lasagne!) and when I can I want to ingredients to be 'the props', especially when they are beautiful fruit and veggies! Where did...
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1020 views, and Party Food for Girls as a giveaway to celebrate
By Alessandra Zecchini
05/22/12 12:26
I got close a few times, the closest was 959 in October, and sometimes I thought that I would never reach 1000 page views in a day, and then yesterday.... Pageviews yesterday 1,020 (copied and pasted from Blogger statistics) Yuppy!!!! Well, it may be an...
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Apple Spiral with a "Deco-Pin" from Visual Food
By Alessandra Zecchini
05/17/12 12:07
Photo by Alessandra Zecchini © Today I received a present from Italy, from the talented Rita at Visual Food, the Blog (aka A Mouse on the Table): this little gadget! So super cute!!! I tried it straight away on an apple, and I am already thinking about...
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Slow Food, Fair Trade, and Oxfam, for the ethical Mum on Mother Day
By Alessandra Zecchini
05/14/12 12:08
On Sunday Slow Food Waitakere hosted Oxfam Biggest Coffee Break in West Auckland. It was also Mother's Day, and my kids learned to make coffee for me :-). Then I spent the morning cooking for the event, I made a banana flowers and potato salad with the...
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Slow Food, Fair Trade, and Oxfam, for the ethical Mum on Mother Day
By Alessandra Zecchini
05/14/12 01:48
On Sunday Slow Food Waitakere hosted Oxfam Biggest Coffee Break in West Auckland. It was also Mother's Day, and my kids learned to make coffee for me :-). Then I spent the morning cooking for the event, I made a banana flowers and potato salad with the...
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Percy Jackson likes blue food
By Alessandra Zecchini
04/21/12 12:31
Blue beans from my garden Just in case you don't know, this is Percy Jackson. I love reading kids' books and Max, Arantxa and I are all waiting impatiently for the release of the next Percy Jackson book (Autumn 2012, unfortunately it must be the Northern...
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Vegan Nashi Tart, and going to a party where most of the food was vegetarian
By Alessandra Zecchini
04/20/12 09:57
I love nashi pears, pity that the season is short... mostly I eat them raw, cut into thin slices, but since I had quite a few I wanted to make a quick tart. This is too easy! I just used one sheet of ready rolled vegetarian puff pastry, then I peeled and...
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Slow Food Waitakere Bush Walk
By Alessandra Zecchini
03/24/12 08:46
Slow Food Waitakere Walk Today a few members of Slow Food Waitakere meet for a 2 hours bush walk to Upper Nihotupu, and beyond! Thank you Laurel for leading the walk. Next appointment tomorrow for Indian food! Photos by Alessandra Zecchini ©
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Chocolate and peanut butter cookie-brownies, and are food bloggers proper food writers
By Alessandra Zecchini
03/08/12 23:44
Recipe first. I felt it coming when my husband asked me three times if I was going to the supermarket (no, no, and no) and then moved around the kitchen saying that there wasn't anything bad to eat. Our American wwoofer lifted his eyes in surprise, but...
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More vegetarian (and vegan) food in Singapore
By Alessandra Zecchini
12/22/11 09:59
One of the best places to eat for vegetarians in Singapore is Waterloo St.: this area is full of temples, Buddhist shops and vegetarian restaurants and grocery stores. All of the food I tried here is also suitable for vegans, since there are no dairy products...
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Beans and flowers, and a morning with the Slow Food ladies
By Alessandra Zecchini
11/24/11 02:58
This salad is really simple: I just chopped half red onion and marinated it for 30 minutes in white balsamic condiment of Modena (FYI, white balsamic vinegar of Modena doesn't exist, it can only be called 'condiment') and then I added one can of Italian...
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