Ciao a tutti! Today we wanted to give a couple of ideas on making the quickest and easiest tomato sauce that you can use for practically any dish. You can use it on pasta, rice, sandwiches or just eat as-is. We make ours almost chunky and fresh. There are really 2 versions to tomato sauce. […]
Month: April 2014
Shopping at the Erboristeria in Italy
Ciao a tutti! It can be frustrating shopping at the Italian traditional supermarkets sometimes, unless they are specifically health food stores, like NaturaSi. Although most of them are starting little by little to put in special “health” food isles and offer different plant-based milks and sauces, the challenge sometimes comes from the smaller supermarkets. Also, […]
Vegan Pizza Tips
Ciao a tutti! Pizza not only is a complete meal in Italy, but also a past-time. A work of art in some areas, if you will. There are a couple of things you need to know to get it right the first time. The trick to getting the perfect pizza is not so much in […]
Vegan Toothpaste in Italy
Ciao a tutti! One usually doesn’t think of toothpaste (dentifricio) as being the top of the list…until there isn’t any left. It is a sometimes forgotten, but very important item. Anything we use 3 times a day (once after every meal!) is important! For vegans it can sometimes be challenging finding toothpaste that is cruelty-free […]
Pizza Robusta con Seitan
Ciao a tutti! We made a pizza today and didn’t have a particular name for it, so we invented one: Pizza Robusta con Seitan, which literally would be “robust pizza with Seitan”! We put everything onto this pizza, so it seemed appropriate. Here is what we did for the ingredients: 300 grams or 2-2 1/2 […]