New here? Check out “Best Of” for some top posts, subscribe to my RSS feed - http://feeds.feedburner.com/MsAdventuresinItaly or receive email updates!Last year I some enacted some Lifetime Eggdramas with colorful chocolate eggs before heading to Berlin for Easter break. This year, I can’t not play with my food again!
If you notice in my pictures, [...]

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Some Site News: I have added a Search box to the sidebar. If you’ve ever wanted to search my site, now you can! Let me know if it’s helpful. Also, I have started sharing articles from my Feed Reader / Blogroll at the very bottom of the sidebar - this will change every day as [...]

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This past weekend (after recovering from the Girl Geek Dinner) we woke up to a sun that was blindingly bright and screamed “Springtime!” After another mild winter here in Italy, it’s a bit too much to hope that spring is already here, but for the weekend, we all believed it.
I walked around with only a [...]

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Edited to add: First read my post about Laduree Macarons and Finding the Perfect Macaron Recipe for inspiration, tips and other links about macarons - Tartelette also made Hot Tamale macarons yesterday!
Making macarons was easier and more fun than I hoped it would be, but it was perhaps the biggest mess I’ve made in the [...]

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Happy World Nutella Day!

Make sure you check Bleeding Espresso’s World Nutella Day Round-up Part 2!
And even though it wasn’t a contest, we wanted to thank everyone for participating and we each have selected a “World Nutella Day Co-Host’s Pick” that will receive 2 bars of Fair Trade Chocolate from Modica, Sicily! Scroll down to the [...]

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Tomorrow, February 5th, is World Nutella Day! You can still participate by posting something on your blog before midnight tonight and sending it to nutelladay [at] nutelladay [dot] com.
I bought a 750g jar of Nutella this weekend and vowed to experiment with some recipes until it was gone! Here are my recipes for World [...]

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Since I got back from France, I have been dreaming and obsessing over French Onion soup. I ate it quite a bit in France and put it on my list to re-create. When I sat down to make it, I decided I didn’t want to make it exactly as the French do, and adjusted it [...]

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One last and final recipe from Gina DePalma’s Dolce Italiano. When I posted the Sicilian Pistachio Cookies and the Mosaic Biscotti, I mentioned I had a third recipe already prepared in the wings when I received the pistachio paste.
Zucchini-Olive Oil Cake with Lemon Crunch Glaze.
If you’re looking for Gina’s Dolce Italiano, Amazon reminded [...]

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