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I had a friend who was visiting for a few days and I found out that she had stopped eating meat since the last time I saw her.  On a whim, I told her that I too would give up meat.   If you read my blog, you’ll notice that I’ve always loved cooking/eating meat [...]

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A work colleague once asked me if I order in restaurants the same way that I order coffee.  I thought his comment was pretty funny, especially since the weekend before my husband had said I was a waiter’s worst nightmare. “What do you mean?” I asked my husband. “Well, you like to change everything in [...]

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A funny thing happened last weekend. My husband and I were having dinner at a new Italian restaurant and half way through the meal I asked him “Did you bring any money?” I can’t remember what prompted me to ask but his answer, “Of course”, was enough to appease my concerns. When the time came [...]

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This last week has made me reflect on the many happy accidents in my life.  Starting, in fact, nine months before I was born. I always thought it was cool that my sister and I were the same age for a month during the year.  I liked it when I told people we were sisters, [...]

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I first tasted pistachio cookies in Italy, about  two years ago.  My husband and I were searching for Il Gelato di San Crispino that was supposed to serve Rome’s best gelato when we chanced upon a little bakery selling these bright green chewy balls of pistachio cookies that were called Bocconcini al Pistacchio di Bronte.  The [...]

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When I was a child, I dreamt of being adopted by an Italian family.  I loved their accents, the way they sounded like they were shouting at everything when in fact they were carrying on a normal conversation, I loved how they always called me Bella and of course, their food. Fast forward to my [...]

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There are moments in our life that stand out because we make promises to ourselves and say: One day… Then there are moments in our life that also stand out because we say to ourselves: Never ever… In 2002 I was visiting my husband in New York and we decided to have dinner at a [...]

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I hated eating my veggies as a child.  I remember having dinner every night with the family and how my parents would insist that no one could  leave the table until all our vegetables were finished.  I knew of course this vendetta was solely targeted at me as my sibling never had the same aversion.   [...]

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It’s Italian week at Trissalicious! That’s right a whole week of tried and tested classic Italian recipes.  A number of these recipes I learned while attending classes at The CIRA Cooking School in Annandale. CIRA stands for the Council of Italian Restaurants in Australia and was formed by twelve restauranteurs to promote the values of Italian [...]

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