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Si era studenti…
March 8, 2011 // Posted in friends | No Comments
Twenty years ago the male component of sacchielli’s family was a young student at Faculty of Engineering of the University of Pavia. Although it seems not realistic that this happened 20 years ago, it was a nice period where we built solid friendships. It is not easy to meet often those old friends, but yesterday, at Zap’s place, I met again Matteo (from Contafamily) and Zap, and it was a really nice dinner. Thanks, and let’s hope that next time we wil be more than three…
Crostata alla marmellata di limone
March 6, 2011 // Posted in food | No Comments
- 200 g farina 00
- 100 g burro
- 80 g zucchero a velo
- 2 tuorli
- un pizzico di sale
e l’utilizzo del robot da cucina la rende quasi banale. Avevamo poi un’ottima marmellata di limone che abbiamo deciso di usare per questa torta. E il risultato e’ riprodotto nella foto. Ah, dimenticavo, una peculiarita’ di questa torta rispetto a tutti i dolci e piatti qui raccontati in questo blog, e’ che e’ stata interamente preparata dalla componente maschile di casa sacchibelli…
The cake you see in the picture is a jam tart prepared by the male component of sacchibelli family. The recipe is inspired by Pane e roba dolce, a book of the famous Simili sisters. We made the shortbread before and then we used a very good jam marmalade on the top of it. The recipe of the shortbread is quite easy
- 200 g white flour
- 100 g butter
- 80 g icing sugar
- 2 yolks
- a little of salt
and we had the help from the Kenwood robot too. Probably this is the only reason why the male component of sacchibelli’s family was able to prepare this cake without any help from Silvia…
Il chinotto
March 5, 2011 // Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments
We love chinotto, a special dark non-alcholic drink, that here in Italy is sometimes preferred to Coca-Cola. Obviously, while Coca-Cola is a very massive drink, chinotto is more a niche product. We knew that is popular mainly among italian persons, but we didn’t know that the “Vero Chinotto” is the one that comes from Savona. So when Luca and Chiara offered us a pack of “Vero chinotto” di Savona, we were surprised at the beginning, and then very happy when we tasted it. It is really good. Thanks a lot Luca and Chiara.
Mondanita’
March 2, 2011 // Posted in friends | No Comments
As we already mentioned many times, in these months we really appreciated the fact that many friends were very close to us. This helped us to get through this bad period and we really thank all of them. This week too we experienced a very intensive social life, and we liked it. On Monday we invited Alice and Filippo for a dinner at our place. They just came back from London and are now ready to fly to Florida, and together with them we spent, as usual, a lovely evening. Yesterday on the other hand we went at Luca’s and Chiara’s place for a great dinner, and for share with them another lovely evening. Thanks to you for your friendship. We really like it.
Il discorso del re
February 27, 2011 // Posted in free time | 1 Comment
Capita di rado che si vada al cinema, un po’ per pigrizia, un po’ perche’ i cinema in centro a Pavia, per sciaguarate scelte, sono in progressiva via d’estinzione. I pochi film che pero’ scegliamo di vedere al cinema sono tipicamente di ottima qualita’: i piu’ recenti sono stati Milk” ( qui raccontato), “Invictus” e “Into the wild“. Cosi’ ieri sera, notando la locandina de “Il discorso del re“, pluricandidato agli Oscar 2011 che si terranno proprio stanotte, abbiamo deciso di andare a vederlo. Che dire, non conosciamo gli altri candidati agli Oscar, ma sicuramente il film e’ ben fatto, interessante e coinvolgente. E il fatto che sia tratto da una storia vera lo rende ancora piu’ speciale. Insomma, i Sacchibelli lo consigliano caldamente, indipendentemente da quello che decidera’ la giuria degli Oscar questa notte….
We rarely go to the movie theater (here in Pavia it starts to be hard to find a movie-theater still open, by the way), but usually, when we decide to go, we choose some very good movie. It happened, in the last years, for “Milk” ( here our impressions), “Invictus” and “Into the wild“. Yesterday we noted that the multiple Oscars candidate “Il discorso del re” was scheduled in one of the last movie theater still open here, and we decided to watch it. We don’t know if it will win all the Oscars it is candidated too, but for sure we liked it a lot, and we suggest to watch it.
A cena da Beppe, Ariella & children
February 21, 2011 // Posted in food, friends | No Comments
Yesterday we went at Beppe’s and Ariella’s place for a dinner. It was a nice opportunity to spend some time together with true friends, sharing some nice history, discussing about almost everything and eating really good food. In particular the leek pie and the guinea-fowl with vegetables and basmati rice were delicious. We also enjoyed the warm kindness of Stefano, Lucia, Giulio and Giovanni, Beppe’s and Ariella’s sons, but unfortunately we missed both Giulio and Giovanni for the photo… We really apologize with them…
Matteo turns 40
February 13, 2011 // Posted in friends | 1 Comment
This year (2011) is quite critical for those that, as the male component of sacchibelli’s family, were born in 1971. They turn 40. Personally speaking, I would have preferred to maintain 3 as the first number of my age, but it is not possible to avoid this event… Hopefully I will turn 40 next May, so it is possible to assist to the 40th birthday of some friends still being 39 y.o. Today, for example, we went at Matteo’s place bringing a cake, made by SIlvia, for his 40th birthday. It has not been easy to find him, but at the end we were able to wish happy birthday to our dear friend…
Cena libanese
February 11, 2011 // Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments
Yesterday we went, together with our friends Ivan and Gabriella, at Biblos Caffe, a Lebanese restaurant in the center of Pavia. We like a lot Lebanese foot, and the restaurant too is really nice. We spent a very pleasant evening, made special by the news and images from Egypt, with the excitation for the ending of a dictatorship, and the special involvement of Lebanese people working at the restaurant.
Degli splendidi (quasi) quarantenni
February 9, 2011 // Posted in friends | No Comments
Che dire, gli anni sono trascorsi e dei ragazzini che nell’85 si ritrovarono in quella classe al primo piano, vicino al ponte, del Copernico, e’ rimasto solo il ricordo. Ma come (quasi) quarantenni direi che ci difendiamo ancora piuttosto bene. Grazie a tutti per la piacevolissima serata e, ovviamente, alla prossima, sperando di essere ancora piu’ numerosi.
Yesterday we went out for a pizza togther with some old school mate of the sacchibelli’s male component. Although someone missed the appointement, the group was large enough and we spent, al together, a very nice evening. It often happens that we meet many of them in normal life, but others, like Alberto, was missing since many years. It is strange to remember that 26 years ago we met at “Liceo Copernico”; we just were boys and girls, while now we are (almost) 40 years old, but it is always nice to spend some event togheter, so let’s wait for next meeting, hopefully soon and with a larger partecipation.
Incontro fra bloggers
February 6, 2011 // Posted in friends | No Comments
Il blog del kiwi is one of the blog listed in the blogroll here on the right. Enrico (who is called kiwi) is a true friend of Silvia and he moved from Pavia after he got married with his Silvia (evidently it is typical for an Enrico to get married with a Silvia…). Today they came back to Pavia during the afternoon, and this was the occasion to meet their lovely baby (Marta), and also some other friends (Fede, Agnese, Stefano). We then met also Paolo and Luisa and all together we spent a really nice afternoon. Thanks for coming Enrico, Silvia and Marta. And obviously we hope to see you soon again.









