Brrr. We have been hit by a tremendous cold front, which has brought tons of snow (or at least, tons by lake Lugano standards) and very c...

Since apparently I didn't have enough stuff to do with my other challenge, the Indie travel challenge, I decided to embark in a health...

Happy 2012 everyone! I hope you had a great New Year's Eve and all that. As for m...

I'm soooo tired these days. Last night I had the closing shift at the newspaper and afterwards, I stayed up drinking beer and watching...

Thanksgiving weekend is over, at least for me. I work on most Sundays, so here I am, sitting at the office, already looking forward to nex...

Here I am, on Thanksgiving Eve (does that even exist?), trying to make stuff ahead so I don't lose my mind tomorrow like I did in ...

It seems like yesterday that I was thinking about Thanksgiving being two months away. And now it's here. Only two days away. Of cours...

  One thing I miss about summer the most once fall sets in is eating flavorful fresh vegetables. Fall veggies are fine, but they are ...

Acquacotta in Italian means, literally, cooked water, but as you can tell by the picture, there's much more to this Tuscan soup tha...

I've recently became a tofu eating freak. Don't get me wrong, thre's nothing wrong with eating tofu, or with being a freak fo...

Another great summer recipe. This year I'm definitely trying to hold on to summer more than last year, although I have to say that it ...

The end of summer is near. Yesterday the weather was hot and humid, the kind of day that makes you run to the nearest gelateria for a good...

If you think that I'm obsessed with savory pies, you are 100% right. I am. My obsession springs from the harsh reality that more than...

There's tomatoes and then there's Tomatoes, with a capital T. The Tomatoes one of my coworkers brought to work yesterday definite...

"Let's make Thai (or French/Chinese/Moroccan/etc.) food this weekend." You often here me announcing such things on Monday ...

Every once in a while I have a stroke of genius. I know I'm not being very modest here, but if you had tried this mock lasagna the other...

First things first. I have an announcement: I HAVE FINALLY FOUND A JOB!!! And not any job. A kick-ass journalism job here in Switzerland. I ...

I love savory pies. They are so easy to make and so versatile, but most of all they are yummy both hot and cols, so they are also perfect as...

A summer recipe. As if we needed them around here. Seriously, folks, it's raining and storming and haling pretty much every other day, i...

Again  have disappeared and haven't posted anything in what seems like an eternity. Also, I haven't been able to visit other people...