Featured Community Member: Tania

Written Friday, September 25th, 2009 by Penny Hawkins

Half Hour Meals Member Tania, lives in Italy and authors an absolutely beautiful blog about her passion for cooking and her desire to share her knowledge with others. One look at Tania's blog will make your mouth water…I guarantee! Read on to learn a little more about her.

Your blog, Dulcis in Furno (Sweets in the Oven) is full of tempting recipes and beautiful food photography- what is the inspiration behind your blog? What does “Dulcis in Furno” mean? Magazines and foodblogs inspire me and allow me to learn cooking new recipes but my inspiration comes mostly from my passion for cooking. “Dulcis in Furno” is a sort of word game coming from the Latin motto Dulcis in fundo and I liked how it sounds. 

The photos in your blog are gorgeous! Do you take the photos yourself? Yes, of course..

How long have you been blogging and how has blogging changed your daily life?  My blog is 5 months old. I have to admit that now I prepare with much more attention than before the dishes that I want to show on the blog.

Do you see yourself still blogging several years from now? Yes I would like to continue blogging for the future and I would like my blog becomes more and more big.

Are you married? Do you have a family? If yes, does this (either one) change the way you blog? I am not married. I live with my parents. The blog has changed much more their daily life than mine because if I have to photograph a dish they have to wait before eating it.

 Where does your inspiration in the kitchen come from? For some recipes I am inspired by magazines but many recipes come from my family tradition and some others are invented on the  spot and they are absolutely the best.

Your Torta Meringata con Uva Fragola Bianca (Cake with meringue and white "strawberry" grapes) is so beautiful and looks so delicious! Is this your own creation? Do you create your own recipes often? Many thanks for your words of appreciation! It is for sure one of my best cakes. I have been inspired by different recipes, I modified them and mixed together according my taste. I wanted to create something special with a very particular kind of grapes as the Uva Fragola Bianca (white strawberry grapes) is and I have been very satisfied of the result. It happens often I create my own recipes and it is fun.

Will you be translating more of your recipes from Italian to English for us on Half Hour Meals? Yes, I will do it with great pleasure.

Why did you join Half Hour Meals? To find out new recipes, to let others experience mine, to visit new foodblogs and let other passionate people know my blog.

When did you join Half Hour Meals? I joined Half Hour Meals about 3 weeks ago

What's your favorite thing about the site? For sure I like at most to experience other people recipes and the possibility to exchange ideas and opinions about kitchen.

Have you tried others' recipes from Half Hour Meals? I have not yet cooked others’ recipes but I will do it very soon.

If others were to ask you about Half Hour Meals, how would you describe the site to them? Half Hour Meals is a very useful site, with many interesting recipes and visited by many interesting people which you can speak about cooking with, exchange ideas and prepare new dishes.

Thanks for sharing with us, Tania, and thanks to your friend who helped with the translations for us! Please do go and visit Tania’s page here  at Half Hour Meals, and her blog and say hello! Please note that Tania’s blog is in Italian, but Google toolbar has a translator application that does a pretty good job.

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