Rome 2010

I've visited Rome a array of times, as good as we consider I've eventually nailed a time of year to visit. It took a couple of tries. Shoot for anytime in in between late September as good as mid-October. The continue is nice, though not hot. You competence get a occasional afternoon rain, though not much over that. As far as where to stay? we still don't have a good letter of reference for apartment rentals. Both times I've rented apartments, they've been perfectly o.k. - clean, good locations, completely livable, in accord with worth for a money. I'd recommend a apartment we rented in Testaccio if it weren't for a noise. The mind-numbing noise. Even with earplugs. This sold apartment was upon a busy, rarely trafficked street, as good as even with a dual layers of shutters closed, it was similar to vital subsequent to a freeway.

To revoke Rome to a list of places we enjoyed upon this sold revisit feels a bit strange. In partial because it's all a small moments removing from place to place which we love. To be able to pop in to a Pantheon upon your approach to a coffee date, or buy mushrooms during marketplace which has been in a same place for hundreds of years feels so opposite to me than what we experience in my regular day to day routine. And a approach very old design as good as iconography is woven in to urban life there never gets dull.

Here are a list of a places as good as experiences we enjoyed, orderly somewhat by location. If we happen to revisit Rome, try to find during slightest a couple of of them out. I've additionally enclosed a little alternative links as good as resources during a bottom of a list. -h

NEAR TESTACC! IO

< p>00100 Pizza: Pizza al taglio, a many appropriate of a kind. we couldn't get sufficient of it. Their pizza would have been sufficient of a draw, though they additionally have a fridge filled with workman beer. Grab a single as good as a slice then lay upon a single of a circuitously play ground benches. My favorites were a aged balsamic-drizzled stilton, as good as a margherita.
Via Giovanni Branca 88, Testaccio
phone: 0643419624
website

Nuovo Mondo: good Roman-style pizza
Via Amerigo Vespucci, 9-17, Testaccio

MACRO Testaccio: Rome's general festival of photography was taking place during MACRO whilst we were visiting. You can check a website for stream exhibitions.
Piazza Orazio Giustiniani 4

Bar Paticceria Lunari: Old propagandize atmosphere, good espresso, locals of all ages, as good as chocolate/hazelnut-filled Italian doughnuts.

Pizzeria Remo: More good Roman-style pizzas.
Piazza Santa Maria Liberatrice, 44

Volpetti: The idealisation Italian deli. It's where we would stock up upon sheep ricotta, pecorino, grains, beans, lentils, as good as bread. You can have rebuilt lunch only around a dilemma as good during Volpetti Pi.
Via Mormorata 47
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Canestro Natural Foods: A well-stocked healthy food store in Testaccio. They stock sum grains, sum grain flours, healthy sweeteners, tofu, seitan, as good as a operation of pastas. Much of what we would find in a U.S. healthy dishes shop.
Via Luca della Robbia 42

RGB Gallery & Cafe: It's where we'd go to get a wi-fi connection. The super-friendly immature owner additionally hosts art openings, Lomo/Holga gatherings as good as a like.
Piazza S.Maria Liberatrice 46

NEAR TRASTEVERE

American Academy in Rome: Friends of a American Academy in Rome have a ability to have lunch during a academy with up to 10 friends, by reservation. For s! ome-more information email Tina Cancemi.

Ma Che Siete Venuti a Fa: A hole in a wall drink club focused upon craft beers. we adore this place, BUT in an present it can spin in to a raging dude-packed football bar, which isn't really my thing. So we developed a bit of a strategy. we would go late in a afternoons, or early in a evenings, as good as urge there was no game being broadcast. If we lucked out, we could squeeze a single of a 5 barstools, relax, as good as speak to a bartender about what they had upon tap, as good as try a garland of stuff.
Via Benedetta 25
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Biscottificio Artigiano: The small almond macaroon cookies dunked in chocolate.
Via della Luce, 21, Trastevere

NEAR THE HISTORIC CENTER

Il Gelato di San Crispino: Consistently my a a single preferred place to sequence gelato in Rome -I kept going back for a chocolate-rum, as good as any of a ones with meringue chunks.
Piazza della Maddalena 3

Gelateria del Teatro: A tighten second for a gelato prize. we adore a nut gelatos here.
Via di San Simone 70, Navona

Open Baladin: More workman beer, much of it Italian. Huge array upon tap. And upon a food front, we had a particularly satisfying Insalata Farro for lunch here a single day. Kid-friendly.
Via degli Specchi 6
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Mia: Cute, lovable shop
Via di Ripetta 224
website
39 06 97841892

NEAR THE VATICAN

ars-imago: we took a little of my b/w movie here for development. we was a bit nervous, though it worked out great. You need a week for turn-around though, as good as have note of a emporium hours. They additionally stock hard to find drive-in theatre together with Impossible Project present film.
Via degli Scipioni 24/26
phone: 3382300648

NEAR PIAZZA DEL POPOLO

Gusto: Part of a Gusto mini-empire, this is, hands-down, my a a single preferred lunch-time b! uffet in Rome. Choose from a spread of twenty-some platters of salads, antipasti, as good as cheeses. Sit outside & people watch underneath a large awning.
Piazza Augusto Imperatore 9
phone: 39 06 3226273
website

We additionally enjoyed Gusto Osteria Formaggeria, for dinner, only around a corner.
Via della Frezza 23
phone: 39 06 32111482

Banchetti Sport: If you're in a marketplace for a good ski parka or vest, this is a place to go.
Via Campo Marzio 38
phone: 06 6871420

Vino Roma: One evening prior to dinner, we squeezed in a booze category taught by Hande Leimer. And I'm so happy we did. We tasted a wide operation of Italian wines, as good as we met a table of people all with opposite reasons for being in Rome. If you're interested in guidance about Italian wines whilst in Rome, have a look during Hande's booze tasting calendar. She gives we a option of choosing from a array of opposite formats, together with a booze & cheese lunch. The location is central, in in between a Vatican as good as a P.za del Popolo, which makes it easy to work a category in to your overall skeleton for a day.
Vino Roma blog

Museo Maxxi: The just-opened ? la mode art notable relic built by Zaha Hadid. Bought a David Hockney photography volume during a bookstore. One I've never seen before. Hop a subway during Piazza del Popola a couple stops to Appolodoro.
Via Guido Reni 4, Villa Borghese
phone: 06 3201829

PIGNETO

Birra+: Neighborhood workman drink shop. Bottles to-go for a many part, as good as nonetheless there wasn't a tasting a night we were there, assumingly they continually horde tastings.
Via del Pigneto 105
phone: 06 70613106

Tiger Tandori: we had a pretty damn good spinach dosa here a single night.
Via del Pigneto 193
phone: 06 97610172

OTHER LINKS & ARTICLES

- we visited Ro! me in 20 07, here is a list of a little of a places we visited, as good as things we saw upon which trip. Twenty things we encountered in Rome.

- Kristina Gill is a Rome-based editor of a single of my a a single preferred cooking array - a in a kitchen with territory upon Design*Sponge. Here's her round-up of Vintage Furniture Shops in Rome. Related, a Design*Sponge Rome Design Guide.

- Photographer Penny de los Santos spent time photographing neighborhoods in Rome for a April 2010 emanate of Saveur Magazine. You can see a array of her shots here.

- we ran in to Rachel a couple times whilst in Testaccio, a sum fluke. She was good sufficient to introduce herself as good as contend hi to me upon a street. Her Rome-centric food blog has lots of delectable recipes as good as poetic photos to match.

- New York Times: 36 Hours in Rome by Rachel Donadio

- Elizabeth Minchilli in Rome: a a single preferred places. we additionally instruct I'd seen this sooner: Elizabeth's Rome.

I'm sure many of we have a a single preferred places which we missed, or never got to upon this trip. Please feel free to post them in a comments. -h

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Buttercream

A while behind we gave away a cutest small clutch. Anyone remember? It was from a Petunia Pickle Bottom Line called Cake. The color was called Red Velvet. Too cute. The Cake line of purses have been actually diaper bag styles disguised as super select handbags. But dont let which keep we from descending in adore with them. You can totally use this as a unchanging purse. Its made of Italian cut velvet as well as coordinating nap tweed. It has lots of pockets, lovable Cake zipper pulls as well as comes in fun flavors.

Anyway, final time we paid for a purchase to give away since we loved a look of it as well as of course a name Red Velvet Cake purchase hard to resist.

But recently Petunia Pickle Bottom contacted me as well as offering a single of their full-size Cosmopolitan Carryallbags for a giveaway. A large one. Yay for we guys!

This time a color is Buttercream as well as its gorgeous.

Take a look

Buttercream Cake Handbag Details

Check out thisRed Velvet Clutch post for a little tighten up shots of a purse detailing.

WANT IT? Enter for a possibility to win this YELLOW Buttercream Petunia Pickle Bottom Cake Purse.

• Now, even though a prize purse is buttercream, we suspicion it would be fun to find out your a a single preferred fabric flavor. (Say which fast 3 times.)
• To enter, just pick your a a single preferred from a single of a flavors next or indicate a single which we think would be fun. Personally, Im waiting for Strawberry Cake to be an option. Please Petunia? Pink?
• Deadline to come in is Tuesday, Nov 2 at 6 pm ET.
• One winner will be chosen at pointless as well as announced sometime Tuesday even! ing.

Good Luck! And if we stumbled upon this post looking for buttercream frosting, heres a recipe for a a single we use most of a time.

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Pear and Cranberry Rustic Tart

Have we seen a pears during a marketplace lately? Gorgeous. This is a country tart, regulating Bosc or Bartlett pears (great cooking pears) that have been pre-baked with ginger, sugar, as well as butter, giving them a smashing caramelized flavor in a tart. Their buttery benevolence offsets a frail acidity of a total cranberries. we got a thought from a pear crostata recipe in The Boston Globe. That recipe, that we done as well as is fabulous, uses pear halves as well as layers a pears as well as cranberries upon tip of frangipane. we did find a Globe's recipe a bit too fussy, along with receiving a improved partial of a day to make. So, this is my easier version, still a same smashing mix of flavors, though with a little reduction effort.A note upon a crust. In my opinion, a cake is just an excuse to eat a fantastic homemade butter crust. These days we can buy solidified flat crusts, though if we haven't done a homemade crust, we strongly inspire we to try it. You can have mix rounds ahead of time as well as freeze them, making it convenient to roll-out during your convenience we want to have a pie.

Pear as well as Cranberry Rustic Tart Recipe

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You can possibly cut up a pears in to cubes, or halve them as well as core them, as well as have use of pear halves. The halves will have a prettier presentation, though a cubes will be easier to prepare.

Ingredients

• 4 pounds (about 8) Bosc or Bartlett pears, peeled, cored, cubed in to 1-inch pieces (or halved)
• 1-inch piece of uninformed ginger, peeled, chopped
• 1/2 crater granulated sugarine (do not underling brownish-red sugar, it will shift a taste too much)
• 1/4 crater (half a stick) butter, cut in to small cubes
• 1 cake membrane recipe
• ! 1 crater uninformed or solidified cranberries
• 1 teaspoon almond extract

Method

1 Make cake mix from a single recipe of a butter crust, or buy a kind of solidified cake membrane that is folded in a box as well as lays out flat.2 Preheat oven to 400F. Line a roasting vessel with aluminum foil. Toss together in a vessel a cubed pears (or pear halves if using), ginger, as well as sugar, as well as widespread out uniformly in a pan. Dot a tip with butter. Roast for 1 to 1 1/2 hours, until a pears are proposal when pierced with a fork, as well as starting to get brownish-red as well as caramelized around a edges. Remove from oven as well as let cool.3 Use a slotted spoon to lift a pears out of a roasting pan, as well as place in a vast bowl. Stir in a cranberries as well as almond extract.4 Preheat oven to 350F. Roll-out a cake mix to a 13-inch diameter. Place upon a rimmed baking sheet. Mound a pear as well as cranberry filling in a middle of a mix round, leaving a 2 to 3 in. border. Fold up a edges over a fruit, pleating a membrane around a edges, leaving many of a ripened offspring exposed in a center. Chill for half an hour prior to baking.5 Bake for 1 hour, or until a membrane is easily browned.Cool upon a rack for during slightest an hour prior to serving. Links:Roasted pear as well as cranberry crostada - from a Boston Globe
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Four Hours And Some Beer In Munich

Not been to Munich prior to so a anticipation of exploring somewhere new, even if for just a couple of hours, was immense. A moody to a airport, a U-Bahn to leave a luggage during Hauptbanhof (a sight tour to Vienna for a EWBC was later) as well as then a couple of hours to ramble a streets. For refreshment - it had after all been a tiring moody lasting a total dual hours - a drink was called for. What else do you do in Munich??

Straight out of a station, opposite Karlsplatz as well as on down a Neuhauserstrasse. On a right you will find a Augustinerbra - a shell-lined room, a Muschelsall, you missed though a table tucked down a behind laid down a ambience aplenty. Mightily tempted to eat here, you staid on a drink as well as a nearby perfect pretzel (the former we forget a price of though a pretzel was 90c) . For us an Augustiner Weissbier hit a mark.

Once consumed a ramble through Munich a single after an additional - a Viktualienmarkt, a glorious booze emporium that we stupidly neglected to write down a name (or address) of, Marienplatz as well as a Neues Rathaus, a gourmet-heaven of Alois Dallmayr (good booze preference here too) as well as pig fry as well as an additional drink during Weisses Bruhaus... a bit confused over a differences of drink styles here - a a single in a photograph is Tap 4, lighter than a progressing Weissbier though fine sufficient to wash down a fry pig as well as herby dumpling. Was we pressed after!

Augustinerbru
Neuhauser Str. 27, Munich

Weisses Bruhaus
Im Tal 10, Munich

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Duke Bistro, Darlinghurst

When Bloodwood opened progressing this year, as well as everybody rushed to declare "casual dining" as a hot new thing in Sydney, we felt a tad skeptical. Bloodwood is great, though can a trend unequivocally exist when Exhibit A usually holds a single example? Well, since March, we've seen a opening of Berta, Eathouse Diner, District Dining as well as now Duke Bistro, that proves a forecasts to be resoundingly right (and my boring, overcautious self to be wrong). Not that we unequivocally thoughts these have been all good places to eat my words.

Duke Bistro has usually been open for a week, though if you're a culinary trainspotter, you substantially would have well known about it for a while, given its impressive line-up (Mitchell Orr, 2010 Josephine Pignolet Young Chef of a Year as well as before of Sepia; Kylie Javier, who used to be front of residence during Bentley, to name a few of its A-team).



The restaurant, that is upstairs from a Flinders Hotel, has a whipsmart feel to it all from a menu to a taste is sparked by imagination, wit as well as a livewire component of fun. There's a Tomato, Strawberry, Burrata & Shiso ($15), a plate that already has netted itself an online air blower base, as well as understandably so. Pitting these odd dance partners together is excellent gamble a creamy, purify cheese, honeyed strawberry as well as jarring chopped tomatoes finish up busting a little good moves together.



Unmissable have been a Tater Tots with Edamame ($15), that have been feisty takes upon a cafeteria/frozen-food staple. At Duke Bist! ro, thes e spiky-crisp potatoes have been some-more like mini rosti, full of baked-perfect golden crunch. Usually drizzled with house-made gravy, my serve comes with yuzu as well as konbu mayonnaise a zippy as well as beyond-satisfying vego alternative.

Duke Bistro is impressively considerate about vegetarian options for instance, when serving a Egg, Seasonal Mushrooms, Almonds ($15), a staff puts a dashi in a (cute) beaker upon a side, so Will has a option of tipping a fish stock onto his portion, whilst we can steer clear of it altogether. And can we say, even though a dashi, a mushrooms have been amazing? I'm not certain what a secret arms is (loads of butter? a good long braising?), though a chefs conduct to expose so many artistic flavours from a medley of enoki, cloud ear, snow mildew as well as oyster mushrooms. (Also, a thought of profitable usually $15 for such a high-grade plate is something of a mind-spinner.)



As for Will's Lamb Belly with Cumin, Eggplant, Pearl Onions ($16), he likes it so most that he substantially set a little kind of land-speed jot down in finishing it.

Being a comfortless sugarine fiend, we actually asked to see a dessert menu right during a start, so we knew to be rebuilt for a Knickerbocker Glory ($12). This glass-full of yum had layers of mango jelly, rhubarb, beetroot meringue as well as panna cotta ice cream. As most as we favourite it (enough to regularly bother a poor staff with a details), we consider we would've preferred it with a customary strawberry instead of a student ingredient, rhubarb.



Menu aside, we additionally favourite a taste during Duke, that avoids shedding its drink hall past with a little slick, new refit and, instead, adds whimsic! al as we ll as clever flourishes of upcycling:
candle holders done of teacups, lampshades done out of all from drink bottles, bird cages as well as traditional conical Vietnamese hats (repainted in shiny, eyecatching shades of black as well as red).

The staff have been additionally genius a right turn of friendly, enthusiastic (but not salesman-like), menu-savvy, approachable as well as good-humoured.

Hell, even a cutlery (by Studio William) is cool. And when your check arrives, it is under arrest by two mini macarons. What's not to like?

Upstairs during a Flinders Hotel (you can enter without delay from a travel level), 63 Flinders Street, Darlinghurst NSW (02) 9332 3180, www.theflindershotel.com.au
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10 Fun and Weird Candy Facts [Happy Halloween!]

1. Candy became at large accessible only 130 years ago. Until then, people would have their own fudge or caramel at home.

2. Candy is the illness victim 100 years ago, doctors blamed sweets for the widespread of polio. In the mid to late 20th century it was blamed for tooth decay. Now it is blamed for obesity.

3. Candy accounts for only 6% of the combined sugarine in the American diet. Soft drinks as well as extract account for 46%.

4. Candy is the 575th many popular name for girls.

5. Candy lacks the illness halo of granola bars as well as ripened offspring juice. But, nutritionally there is much less disproportion between them than would primarily seem.

6. There are complete blogs dedicated to candy. Popular ones embody Candy Addict, Candy Blog, as well as Candy Professor.

7. Its unimaginable now, though sweets once was advertised as illness food. Eat Tootsie Rolls The Luscious Candy That Helps Beat Fatigue.

8. The worlds largest chocolate club was manufactured in Armenia final month as well as weighed in at 9,722.39 lb, setting the new Guinness World Record.

9. John Candy (1950 1994) struggled many of his adult life with obesity. Obesity associated illness complications killed him at the age of 43.

10. Candy isnt always good. Just ask Hansel as well as Gretel.

Enjoy tonight!

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I cooked: Homemade pumpkin and sweetcorn soup

Happy Halloween, dear readers!

Do you know why pumpkins have been forged every year during Halloween? This practice originated in Ireland whereby upon "All Hallow's Eve" the pumpkin was forged as well as left upon the doorstep to sentinel off evil spirits. Traditionally the face was forged upon the swede or turnip as well as often lit for arrangement though pumpkins have been right away used as they have been some-more straightforwardly available as well as simpler to carve.


Jack-o'-lantern with roasted pumpkin seeds

Did you applaud Haloween with the pumpkin this year? Struggling for an thought upon what to do with your leftover pumpkin? Why not try this recipe for homemade pumpkin as well as sweetcorn soup; this is the great vegetarian soup. The soup has the splendidly smooth as well as creamy hardness as well as the further of sweetcorn provides the little crunch to the soup. It is the robust as well as delicious recipe, as well as will have great joy food in the cold winter climates.

Even the pumpkin seeds do not go to waste. Roasted pumpkin seeds have the lovely eccentric flavour as well as have been great as the snack besides having the crowd of health benefits.

Homemade pumpkin as well as sweetcorn soupPreparation time: 20-25 minutesCooking time: 40-45 minutesServes 4

Ingredients1 kg pumpkin (You can additionally make use of butternut squash)10! 0g solid ified sweetcorn, defrosted25g butter1 middle onion, peeled as well as finely chopped1 cinnamon stick (kayu manis)1/2 tsp belligerent nutmeg (buah pala)275ml milk725ml unfeeling stock (You can additionally make use of duck stock for the non-vegetarian version)Freshly belligerent salt as well as pepper
For the roasted pumpkin seedsSeeds from the pumpkin1 tbsp olive oil Freshly belligerent salt


1. Using the sharp knife, flay the pumpkin as well as deseed it with the spoon. Keep the pumpkin seeds in reserve for later use. Then, cut the pumpkin into 1 in (2.5cm) chunks.

2. In the large non-stick pot over the low heat, warp the butter as well as supplement the onions. Cook the onions for 8-10 minutes, until they have been malleable as well as golden brown.

3. Add the chopped pumpkin, along with the sweetcorn, cinnamon as well as nutmeg as well as deteriorate to taste with salt as well as pepper. Put the lid upon as well as allow the pumpkin chunks to persperate gently as well as release their juices. This should take about 10 minutes.

4. Pour in the milk as well as stock as well as gently cook for 20-30 minutes. Put the lid upon though leave the little gap (so it's slightly ajar). Stir ocassionally.

5. For the roasted pumpkin seeds, initial separate the seeds from the pulp as well as strings as well as rinse them under cold water. Pat them dry with the cloth as well as place in the dry bowl. Add the olive oil as well as salt as well as stir to coat. Place the pumpkin seeds upon the single layer upon the baking sheet as well as fry for 15-20 minutes in the preheated oven (160C). Do keep an eye after 10 minutes as you just want to lightly fry them as overroasting destroys the little of their supplying nourishment value.

6. The soup is right away ready to be served. However, if you cite to have no bits in your soup at all, afterwards flow the soup into the blender or food processor as well as mix it to the puree. Remember to remove the cinnamon stick beforehand.
7. Serve the soup in warm bowls with pumpkin seeds sprinkled over.
Enjoy!

Good joy food

Note: This recipe was blending from Delia Smith as well as Valentine Warner's pumpkin soup recipes.
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