UN CUCCHIAINO PER ZOOMY

welcome cucchiaino! MIRALDA COLOMBO is a curly lady, a journalist, a food blogger… She opend in 2009 the cult food blog il cucchiaino di Alice (Alice’s little spoon) dedicated to her little daughter Alice.  Amazing recipes, delicious combinations of ingredients, simple and sofisticated at the same time… waiting for all her recipes collected in Il cucchiaino, in the bookshops in September for Gallucci editore she dedicates to Zoomy one of her creations a week!

La melina nel dolcetto  - by Il cucchiaino di Alice

littles apples sunk in a light dough...

Ingredients (3 people)

little apples 3, brown sugar 50 gr, milk 120 ml, white yogurt 2 spoons,  eggs 
2, white flour 60 gr, butter 30 gr,  cinnamon half  little spoon, 
half sachet of yeast, peel of lime (or lemon)

Whisk eggs with sugar to obtain a foamy dough. Add milk, yogurt and melt butter, one little spoon of lime peel and whisk again. Add white flour mixed with cinnamon and yeast. Fill the 3 muffin baking-pans, the dough has to be rather liquid, dive the apples into them. You could put on the top other brown sugar and cinnamon. Put in the oven, 175 C° for a 30’. Enjoy them!

MELISSA HOW OLD R U?

MELISSA PANARELLO - writer

how is your bed? and your cot when you were baby? I had no cot because my mom liked sleep with me between her and my dad. Now I have a bigger salmon pink bamboo bed but I do not use it so much, I continue to go to my parent's bed to sleep with them as always!

which kind of meal you do not like? which is your favourite dish that your mom prepare to you? I like sweet-and-sour rabbit and broccoli pasta. I do not like jam croissants and fried potatos, I prefer to have for my breakfast just a carrot. My mum is very angry fro this, she would like I would eat sugars in the morning.

your favorite book to read? Gods and heroes from greek mythology. There are many pictures and all the stories abouts the gods. I like also "Jesus in the hearth", a gift from priest Pasqualino.

have you got an imaginary friend? yes, her name is Rita. She is 14 years old and she looks like S.Rita, exactly. She has a nail dug in the forehead and a black veil on the head. She is very quite, it's only me speaking.

What do you want to do when you grew up? A poet or a nun.

What did you write first? It is strange but I remember it because my haunt had preserved it until now "I do not want to sleep because there is no love to warm up my heart"

ROCIO HOW OLD R U?

ROCIO MACHO - Naif magazine, journalist  how is your bed? and your cot when you were baby? When I was a baby I used to sleep in a cot beside my parent's bed, a very old one that my brothers had used before me. Now I share a bunk bed wiht my sister.

which kind of meal you do not like? which is your favourite dish that your mom prepare to you? I hate beef and my favourite meal is fried eggs and potatos

your favorite book to read? I love Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, my older sister uses to read it to me before going to sleep (the one who sleep in the bunk bed with me!)

have you got an imaginary friend? I never need it, I've got 7 brothers and sisters! what I have is an imaginary dog!

MIRALDA HOW OLD R U?

MIRALDA COLOMBO - journalist and food blogger/il cucchiaino di alice How was your cot – and bed as a child? I had a classic rocking cradle, I think so by my baby pictures… Pastel colors wood, bedding, carousel. Since the beginning my bed has been for a bigger child with a winter blanket printed in the middle with a saint bernard dog. I love to go under it inventing imaginary tales with my torch.

Which was your favorite dish your mum used to cook for you? What meal didn’t you like at all? I has been a good eater, I eat vegetables or soups. I have to say... I do not go crazy for the cabbage's world. My mom doesn't not like coocking but she often makes hand made pasta and I love helping her. Probably that's the reason why I have started to coock with Alice very soon, making pizza and coockies. For babies is a wonderful moment, magic.

What was your favorite book? I am divided among Alice in Wonderland, Pippi Longstocking and Anna with red hair. All of them have in common incredible and quirky adventures! I am a super lively child.

Did you have an imaginary friend? Sure, her name is Anna, she lives in a wood with many nymphes able during the night to become trees. Anna is also the person to whom I dedicate my diary’s pages.

What do you want to do when you grew up? I have no precise ideas about this… I dream to be able to travel through space and time (not really a job), maybe I could become a war reporter, as Oriana Fallaci or Tiziano Terzani to change the world and help people.

MICHAELE HOW OLD R U?

MICHAELE - Kalon Studios, designer How was your cot – and bed as a child? The crib is a yellow and white crib that is a hand-me-down from my mother's sister. The sides come up and down. It is a simple, standard design for the time. All cribs look alike. The bed I have is my mom’s from when she was little. It is a dark-cherry, twin-size bed with head and foot boards. I decorate the headboard with autumn leaves stuck on with toothpaste. The leaves crumbled off sort of quickly but the blue toothpaste is there forever.

Which was your favorite dish your mum used to cook for you? What meal didn’t you like at all? The same. Apparently, my favorite is spinach and then it became my least favorite.  I have drawings from then that say NO SPINACH scrawled across them. According to my mom the change is based on a sudden awareness of color on my part. Other favorites: spicy food, vinegar, candy, brie, pate, peanut butter and jelly, and steak.

What was your favorite book? I have a lot of favorites: Madeline. Good Night Moon. The Ox Cart Man.

Did you have an imaginary friend? A ton. Joey and Smookey (he wear glasses) are my best friends. There are loads of them. I even have an imaginary enemy – Monica. She is awful.

JORDI HOW OLD R U?

JORDI FERRERO - Artist How was your cot – and bed as a child? my bed was hidden inside a closet, when i want to go to sleep i have to pull it open.

Which was your favorite dish your mum used to cook for you? What meal didn’t you like at all? in terms of food i like everything, but maybe i'm not a fan of really bloody meat. tuna fish with vegtables is my favorite food by my mom.

What was your favorite book? my favorite book is The Neverending Story

Did you have an imaginary friend? i dont have an imaginary friend but I invent a lot of stories and adventures.