Sometimes, I catch myself thinking in how the world is really big and whether I’ll have the chance to know it more than I do now.

There are lots of cultures and lots of ways of preparing food. I mean there is a lot to know – and to realize that I know nothing at all!

Also, all the places I would like to visit and to see and to learn about its history.  Including, for sure, its typical food! {Oh my God, Malta and the Mediterranean Sea!  }

If it wasn’t for Homemade’s, I would never know what I was used to calling by  ”lemon” is called lime in the English-language recipes. Is that funny, isn’t it? Tons of recipes later I realized that my limão {lime} is not your lemon.

In fact, we have that yellow lemon – ours is the green one. Here in Brazil is called by “Sicilian Lemon”.

Despite of this misunderstanding, I share with you my grown-up lemonade. Better, I’m going to share my grown-up Lime-onade!

It is not caipirinha, because it doesn’t have the amount of alcohol required to be called like that. It’s more like a grown-up beverage!

The whole bite…

Living with an almost Italian man, I’m always having Italian food! My mother-in-law has taught me many Italian recipes, since her mother-in-law was Italian.

She taught my mother-in-law to cook this gnocchi. And here I am sharing this traditional family recipe with you!

It took me a very long time to get the tricks to prepare a mouthwatering gnocchi. Well, it may be simple, but there are some steps that must be taken:

- Choose nice potatoes, dry enough to not require lots of all-purpose flour

- Pick good quality ingredients, specially butter. You’ll know how it will taste better

Two steps, only?

Without those steps your gnocchi could be ruined. I had many failure occasions in which I ignored those things. Once, talking to my mother-in-law, she said I should be careful with choosing good potatoes and butter, because all the flavour relies on both ingredients.

Since I started following those tips, I realized not only the gnocchi dough got better but also the taste!

The whole bite…

Dear bloggers of the world,

I request your help. I’ve been through that place in between the lack of creativity and the limbo of ideas. Even though I’m trying to make a move out of there, I’m really stuck at that point.

I read a lot, not only food magazines or cookbooks. I’m always looking for both old fashioned and modern ways to cook and to write a good post. That’s the reason why I’ve been spending most of the nights up and having my so-called great ideas. Of course, none of them is being used to fulfill this little space of mine.

I must mention that last week I had a collection of cook failures! I did needed to push myself for something could come up and save my week.

As a food blogger, my obligation is to deliver nice recipes and posts. Even though,  this includes to tell you all that I’m stuck at a point which is really important for me as a blogger: I do not want to give up! That makes me stronger and push me for get better and better… Consequently, the lack of creativity would be vanished away.

I guess this feeling is always with us – and it will always be… Am I right? Since the very moment we start a blog, we have been through a rollercoaster of creativeness and inspiration. All of this are giving us the strenght to go on, to research and to improve.

The purpose of Homemade’s is to collect memories and to share all those moments with another people. That give me a different perspective and so that makes me alive and productive.

So, may I be like this for a while, fellas? Please, tell me it gets better with time.

I share with you my beloved pizza recipe, as a acknowledgement for helping me out!

Thanks! xoxo

The whole bite…