How to make gelato at home: 3 tricks for professional results

May 15, 2018 by Lucia D'Ulivo

Would you like to impress your guest with a home-made gelato, reminding the one you buy in your favorite gelato shop? Or maybe you just moved and you can’t find a place for a decent gelato? Or, simply, you want to become a master with the most beloved summery dessert? No matter what your scope is, there are three points that you can’t ignore. Preparing a good gelato is not too tricky if you just follow a few fundamental rules.

Stracciatella gelato: the recipe and the first Proustian memoir

May 10, 2018 by Lucia D'Ulivo in Dessert

My favorite flavor when I was a child was coconut. I had a fixation with any food containing coconut: coconut cookies, coconut cakes, not to mention fresh coconut. I found it reassuring. Coconut was so exotic to make me dream about foreign oceans, white beaches and blue lagoons.

Artisan gelato: how to make it

May 08, 2018 by Lucia D'Ulivo

I don’t know you, guys, but for me a summer without ice cream is as a sky without stars (all right, very poetic today). OK, I know, Tuesday supposes to be the day of the nerdy/ scientific explanations, therefore, I will spare you memoir today :P Let’s talk how gelato is made, instead. Or better, let’s talk how experts make it. In the next posts, then, I will explain how you can make it home.