Distance balances must balance the negative with the positive things, or at least try.
Obviously it is not always possible, there are things that are difficult to neutralize, and then sometimes it seems that the fate continues to rage: There has never happened to think, now what can happen to me, the worst? Better not tell, because there is no end to the worst.
However, because I want to be optimistic, and these days of sun and blossoming trees of spring and warm beats me make it absolutely positive, I booked my usual spring trip: This year is no solo, as I usually do, but Mom. For you will be the first real travel experience, so far from home, the first plane. It's never too late to start, I'm sure that after this will not stop anymore!
doubt in Hamlet between Barcelona and Berlin, in the end we decided to Barcelona: the end of May, the sun, colors, imaginative style of Gaudi, Paella and sea, that you want?
I must admit that among the European cities I visited, Barcelona is a lack vistosissima. I am well aware
northern Europe, to the icy lands of the Norwegian fjords, but are really lacking on the south of our continent ... the experience of last year in Seville has been very positive (well, Seville era il mio sogno da quando ho iniziato a studiare flamenco, alla fine degli anni Novanta, partivo già piena di sogni e aspettative), sicuramente anche Madrid mi attirava.
Invece Barcellona non so, non mi aveva mai intrigato...fino a quando ho letto il bellissimo libro di Carlos Ruiz Zafòn, che l'ha descritta in un modo talmente affascinante che mi ero ripromessa, prima o poi, di farci un pensierino.
Devo assolutamente rileggermi il libro, prima di partire, per essere totalmente immersa nel suo fascino catalano (da dimenticare invece le pubblicazioni successive dello stesso autore, davvero deludenti, praticamente uno sbiadito plagio di sè stesso). No, devo ammettere che anche il grazioso film L'appartamento spagnolo (Cedric Klapisch) apprezzarequalche I had done years before, a city as modern and colorful, Mediterranean, but the Shadow of the Wind was decisive!
more I read the guides and reportage, the more I enthusiasm. I hope that five days is enough, for a total immersion in the colors and flavors of Catalonia ...
Another thing that I have experienced lately, is the grid for pies: I had seen on Anna's blog, where we also find
precise explanation of how to use it, with the photographs.
I bought in a shop, of course, and I was very satisfied. I have not found it particularly difficult to use, once you learn the technique, the crust is really nice (I always hated doing the strips by hand). In this case, I added 100 grams of barley flour, to get a slightly more rustic texture.
doses for a dish 24 cm in diameter
300 grams of flour (I 200 grams 00 and 100 of emmer)
125 grams butter 130 grams sugar
1 egg and 1 egg yolk 1 tablespoon
Witch
Council to divide the pastry:
Cut a circle of parchment paper the exact size of the coverage of your pan, then a lie down part of the crust. Rovesciatela on the grid with the wax paper on top, and roll it out well with a rolling pin without removing the card, so that it adheres well to the grid.
Gently remove the paper, and then drop the rumble of pastry, then you will use to make the strip of closure of the tart.
Spread the rest of the pastry on parchment paper (I us design the precise form of the dimensions that must arrive, so I'm not mistaken), then put it with all the paper into the pan.
Spread the jam, then cover with the pastry Advanced (rombini and some cropping) do the strip closed.
