LA CUCINA DI Pippi
As I soon as I cross the threshold of Pina’s house, I catch a whiff of freshly baked bread and cookies. “I have already prepared a few things,” she smiles. A wonderful display of cookies, pasta and bread awaits on the kitchen table. For a moment, I feel like I have entered a fairytale.
We are in Abbasanta, a small town in the Guilcer area of Sardinia, on the road between Macomer and Oristano. Born and bred here, Signora Pina Marcis, who is affectionately known as Pippi, has turned her lifelong passion for the traditional recipes of her territory into a very successful blogging activity. Her Instagram account alone, La Cucina di Pippi, counts more than fourteen thousand followers.
“I am completely self-taught,” she explains. “As a child, I helped out my mother and my grandmother in the kitchen. That’s how it all began. I had never thought of turning that into a career, until one of my daughters gave me her old smartphone. Even then, it started as a pastime. I created an Instagram account and made a few food posts. Success was instant, though. It quickly became an almost full-time job.”
Almond cookies
Amarettones
➤ MAKES 30 ➤ PREPARATION 15 minutes, plus 1 hour resting time ➤ BAKING 25 minutes
These delicious almond cookies are in that they are decorated with red and green candied fruit. In the olden times they were topped with a whole almond instead. In the Guilcer area we call them to distinguish them from regular .”
