Monthly Archives: November 2011
Photo Friday (#2)
| November 25, 2011 | Posted by ameliaps under photography, photos |
Last Friday I started a series…and said no promises on whether I would keep it up, but I have been thinking about it all week. The thought has been an extra help to watch for the magic and surreal, the unusual and the minimally quotidian, the changing world around me. So here are some visual… more
Two autumnal soups: sweet-potato-parsnip (with roasted root chips) and butternut-squash-persimmon
| November 22, 2011 | Posted by ameliaps under autumn, fall, soup |
Thanksgiving is just a few days away and a nice chill in the air is whisking away the last leaves from the trees. I like the views that the bare naked trees open up to… In an autumnal mood, I have been experimenting with orange-colored ingredients: squash, pumpkin, persimmons, sweet potatoes, oranges… Here are two… more
Tiny journeys in my kitchen: a gift from Autumn (& clementine martini)
| November 21, 2011 | Posted by ameliaps under Drinks and cocktails, winter |
Autumn brought this gift in my kitchen: I peeled the minuscule clementine (bright orange but unassuming) the scent from the zest’s oils hit my nose, the sugary tart juice hit my taste buds, and there he was… right inside the citruses segments: my father, with his sigarette-stained hands his black mustache and sideburns in a… more
Photo Friday
| November 18, 2011 | Posted by ameliaps under photography, photos |
Today’s post is not about food and cooking: I think Z Tasty Life should be more than that. After all, it’s a place to share pieces of my life -and all things creative- with you. You see, I find stuff… every day, all around me, and then I take a photo of what I see.… more
Torta di mele con olio, salvia e limone (Apple-lemon-olive oil-sage cake)
| November 12, 2011 | Posted by ameliaps under apples, autumn, dessert |
October was a month of apples and pumpkins. I say that as in “apples and oranges”: different things showing up on my doorstep, none of them related. But Nature (and life) has its ways of making sense out of randomness. It serves you new surprises at each season and whispers in your ear what to… more






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