How to make pasta di mandorle: the recipe

While in Italy, I widely meditated on the food to make during Christmas time. My husband has kindly indicated that he doesn’t wish the traditional home-baked panettone (he came home with a pack of an industrial one, which has cost him some money though :P). Despite that, we agreed I will bake pandoro by following the wonderful Simili’s recipe (not too bad as a solution given that pandoro takes “only” a day and a half…nothing compared to the three days needed for panettone!).

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Why the no-carb diet ended up on this blog

It’s a type of diet, iso or hypocaloric, that strictly minimizes the carbohydrate intake (below 10% the recommended requirements). Among the banned food we find: pasta, rice, cereals in general, bread, legumes, simple sugars (sucrose, honey, syrups…), veggies with relatively high content of carbs (potatoes, pumpkin…), fruits, yogurt etc…Among the allowed food we have: meat, fish, avocado, coconut, three nuts (almonds, walnuts…), eggs, cheese, butter, olive oil…

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