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i use the peugeot for my salt (only corse in my house!); it works fine and looks lovely, but the pain is that you have to always remember to tighten the bolt at the top, and my bf, who owns the pepper mill tells me the same is always happening to her.
other set back is that it doesn't hold that much salt/pepper, meaning filling up quite often (pepper once a week, if you use pepper every day, like I do)
for my pepper, i use the classic wooden italian huge peppermill (over 70 cm high!!) fill it once in a blue moon, looks lovely in every kitchen, rustic feel and modern, and great effect at the dinner table.

it's not nice to be envious, is it?
well then, I musn't be a very nice person!
I would love to have the nerve to sell my apt and dive into such a rewarding, if exhausting, task
sooo romantic

i guess if you're talking about portobello's you could probably run them under the tap (they have no great flavour anyway - imo - so even if they do absorb a little water, so what)
but i would never ever ever wash a porcino mushroom with water, nor with chantarelles, or other wild mushrooms.
and why does foodygirl say they grow in poo?
they might do in the states, certainly not here in italy.
portobellos are farm grown (in soil), porcini and other wild mushrooms, you might buy in the market but they have always been hand picked in woods (that, along with the fact that if the season has not been favourable, some mushrooms are simply impossible to find, makes them so expensive)
if you ever invest in fresh porcini PLEASE don't wash them in water, simply scrape di earth away with the back of a nife or a cooking brush

any time I tried backing with silicone, my cakes ended up burned at the bottom (ok, I confess it's happened with nonstick pans too, but blame the soprano's, not the cook! they distracted me!!!)

microwave, and coffee pods for my coffee machine.
and on top of my microwave I've got a bowl with coins, broken magnets, rings etc and two framed pictures.
(a piramid of sorts!!!)

when I was 6 months preg we spent 3 days on the amalfi coast and then another 7 in the 5 terre in the north of Italy.
if you can I strongly reccomend taking a break together, 'cos you can forget pleasant dinners in some nice restaurant and strolling around towns hand in hand for a very long time
soon we'll be going on a 7 day holiday together, just the two of us, after almost 3 years, and boy do we need it (exilarating and heart breaking at the same time, 7 days without our little monster!)

it's traditional here in italy to give the neo-mum a diamond ring or diamond something as a commemoration of the event.
the darling father of my son and i don't go for these things.
if you're gonna give me diamonds, do it cos you want to give me a present cos you love me, not because i gave you a child! my son is to me a mutual gift we gave one another, i did the 'labour work', but we're in this together, and i'm not an athlete who wants a medal for having given birth!
on the other hand, the day the three of us got home from hospital, i found a dozen red roses for me and a dozen blue roses for my little terror. i dried and kept one of each.

hello there, i'm kilian, and i'm two (my mummy is typing this message for me, as she won't let me play with it). she insists books are much more fun, to which, i must agree with her. but then again she's always right (ok, mummy is adding this, wishfull dreaming!!!)
so please please please pick me, because it's hard for me to find english books in Italy, and mummy won't let me have books which aren't in english!!

used to simply use a knife. since i bought myself a zester, will never do without again!
ps: have no idea what a microplane is, gonna check it out on the net, after reading all the raving reviews about it.

funny how taste differs!
i love the blue stipe, I've found exactly what my white wall at home needs, but the pineapples and the rug i just can't bring myself to like.
lovely pink sofas, and lovely ensamble overall.