About me

“Gorgeous young lady,” says *le husband 😀. I’m convinced he means it, although he has also discovered that a well-timed compliment usually earns him an extra serving of dessert. Win-win.

I’m Loredana, a female geek and a certified introvert. After 20 years in the IT industry, I’ve come to the conclusion that I’d rather write an SQL query than scroll through clothing websites, and a night of online gaming easily beats a night out at a club. Well… maybe that’s a slight exaggeration. I’m not completely antisocial, it’s just that my social battery drains much faster than my phone’s. 😄

I still get excited when I crack a particularly weird technical problem, and every now and then I realize I’m debugging something in my head while washing dishes or kneading dough. Occupational hazard, I’m afraid. 😀

When I step outside my introvert bubble, I love travelling and discovering new places, people, food, and ideas. Every trip leaves me with something to bring home, even if that “souvenir” is simply a dish I’m determined to reverse-engineer in my kitchen. I then spend weeks reproducing it, one iteration at a time, until the final version is as close as possible to the one I tasted there.

My passion for cooking started many years ago for one very practical reason: not starving to death. 😀

Over time, it turned into a serious hobby, and desserts earned VIP status both in my heart and on my kitchen counter. I love experimenting, testing recipes, and discovering new flavor combinations, even if the end result sometimes means washing one more bowl. Or five.

After all, practice makes perfect, and every successful recipe is usually the result of a few failed iterations along the way. 😀

This blog is, in essence, a combination of all of the above: technology, cooking, and travel. A place where I gather my curiosities, genuinely tested recipes, stories from between pots and pans, culinary experiments, places I’ve discovered, and my little observations about the world, and, every now and then, a dose of humor that will probably only be fully appreciated by fellow geeks.

Welcome, and I hope you’ll find something here that you enjoy. And if not, at least have a look at the dessert photos. 😀