Little pies with bacon and omelette Today I'd like to share with you one of my favorite recipes. It's very quick and simple and so I find it very useful and I use it often. With it you'll be able to prepare small little pies with bacon and omelette. I usually prepare them as an appetizer when we have some guests (one for each) or as a second course for we three alone (two or three for each as one's wish). First things first, the ingredients. To prepare 12 pies you'll need: - 24 thin slices of bacon - 5 eggs - grated cheese: 3/4 spoonful (I usually make them 5/6 or even more because I like them with lots of cheese but the original recipe say 3/4) - 200 ml fresh cream - 1 sprig of basil - salt and pepper to taste Warm your oven to 180°C before all. In a bowl mix eggs, cream, grated cheese, salt and pepper. When you're done, add some hand-torn Basil leaves to flavor your omelette and mix some more. It would be better to have a muffins/cupcakes baking tin. If you don't have it, you can also use aluminium or ceramic baking cups. Line each cup with two slices of bacon placed cross-like. Folding up the excess, try to cover as much of the cup surface as you can. You won't need to grease the cup because the bacon own grease will suffice to prevent the pie from sticking to it. Divide the omelette mix in the twelve cups and place your pies in the oven for 12/15 minutes. When the surface of the omelettes will be golden brown take them out. I suggest to serve them when they are still warm but in the summer you may want to try them cooled down. For a lighter version of the pies you can use speck instead of bacon but, please, remember to oil the cup a little in this case. Enjoy!

Stuttgart - September 2014 My husband and I love Germany. We try to go visit his aunt, who lives in the northern part of Germany, at least once every two years but we usually also spend a few days in Stuttgart, with some of our friends, around the last weekend of September. We usually take part in the Cannstatter Volksfest, a traditional beer festival and funfair whose foundation dates back to the beginning of nineteenth century. For truth my husband started going to Monaco's beer festival, instead of Stuttart's. He went there alone with his friends for years until we decided to go together also bringing our son of, then, three years with us. We thought Monaco Oktoberfest wast too big of a festival for a child and decided to try Stuttgart's one instead. That is our third year there and we still don't regret our choice. Stuttgart is a wonderful, cosmopolitan and open minded city. This year we three went there alone and took advantage of that to also visit the city at our leisure. We first went to Wilhelma, a very big zoo and botanical garden. The buildings and parks of Wilhelma were originally used as living quarters for king Wilhelm the First, from whom it takes its name, so there is a great deal of historical moorish architecture to behold there too. On our second day we went to the Cannstatter Volksfest. It really is a big fair. We spent almost one hundred euro and had a great time tryng different attractions and eating cotton candy, candy apple, curry wurst and craps the like. After going to the festival we went to the Mercedes-Benz Arena to see a football match because my husband is a Vfb Stuttgart fan. We won over Hannover 96, thanks to a goal of Daniel Schwaab, and as it was our first victory this year my husband was so very pleased with himself for having being present. I would also recommend to visit, as we did on our last day there, Rosensteinpark. I don't know the exact dimensions of it but it really is big! Our first intention was to take a little stroll before living for Italy, maybe allow our son to play for a bit so that he would have been tired once in the car and therefore would have slept during the trip back home. We staied for 4 hours. The playground are nothig as you can find in Italy. They are so very amazing you really, really want to be a child once again! Or at least to have one who still want your help because our five years old boy is unfortunately "big enough to go up there alone" (his words). But, go figure, he really slept once in the car! Bye!