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Crusty Italian almond cookies!

I published an almond cookie recipe here before, but I couldn’t leave you out of this one! These cookies are heavenly and delicious! They take a little bit more time to make, but it’s worth the effort.

Ingredients:

• 100 gram (3.5 oz.) grounded almonds
• 50 gram (1.7 oz.) grated almonds
• 4 egg whites
• 100 gram (3.5 oz.) fine sugar
• 25 gram (0.9 oz.) flour
• baking paper

Hot and spicy pizza recipe, the Italian way!

We all now the hot & spicy pizza’s you can order at the big fast food pizza chains all over the USA and in lots of places in the rest of the world. As you can imagine I prefer a more Italian style pizza, but my senses can hunger for hot & spice too. That’s why I share this pizza recipe from Italy with you. Based on our original pizza dough recipe, so you get the enormously tasty and crusty pizza bottom you’re used to if you are a frequent visitor of this blog.  Read the rest of this entry »

New pizza dough recipe!

Yes, after many years of using the pizza recipe I found in Puglia (southern Italy), I dared to change it. And it’s great! The dough can be rolled out much thinner and gets crusty, even in a normal electric oven. Here we use this pizza dough recipe every time. It’s still easy and fast, and you can make it in advance and store it in the freezer. The big difference is we not only use tipo 00 flour, but Read the rest of this entry »