Casa Mafalda

Casa
Italia
Dormelletto
Casa Mafalda

Country chic house with private pool in Dormelletto, on the hill overlooking Lake Maggiore. CIR (Co
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26/07/2024

| TAKE IT SLOW |

Rare moments when we stop being hosts and we’re guests in our own house.

08/05/2024

| CARE |

Man’s talk.

03/04/2024

| CRAFT |

Is it just me or when you see driftwood your imagination runs wild thinking about what you can create?

❤️

24/03/2024

| TRAVEL |

Just above the village of Pella, or just below our beloved Arola, you can enjoy one of the most stunning panoramic views over Lake Orta and the island of San Giulio from Alzo, a real balcony overlooking the lake.

❤️

15/03/2024

| TASTE |

I think there’s a magic in Castagnaccio. It’s a traditional Italian chestnut flour cake that is so easy to make, wholesome, nutritious, and naturally vegan, lactose-free, gluten-free and sweet without sugar!

🇬🇧Recipe card in the stories > TASTE
🇮🇹 Scheda ricetta in italiano nelle storie > TASTE

CHESTNUT CAKE
sugar free | naturally gluten free

250 g chestnut flour
50 g raisins
500 g water
Extra virgin olive oil
1 pinch salt
1 spring rosemary
1 handful bread crumbs (optional)
30 g pine nuts

1. I soak the raisins in warm water and preheat the oven to 175°C.
2. I sift the chestnut flour and salt to a bowl. I pour in the water a little at a time, stirring gently to prevent lumps.
3. I add the squeezed raisins and half of the pine nuts.
4. I grease a baking dish with plenty of extra virgin olive oil, and sprinkle with some bread crumbs.
5. I pour in the batter and sprinkle the remaining pine nuts, then add the rosemary needles.
6. I drizzle with extra virgin olive oil and bake for about 30 minutes, until the chestnut cake is dry on the top and covered with fine lines.
7. I let it cool completely before serving.

11/03/2024

| CARE |

Nice surprise today! This springlike day inspired Rita to restart her egg production and little Sol to lay her first tiny egg… so cute!

04/03/2024

| TASTE |

I’ve been making my own yogurt for many years now and after a few trials, the method I’ve adopted is very basic — no special yogurt cultures or fancy equipment required.

All I need is good quality milk, a spoonful of my favorite plain yogurt to use as a starter culture (or a spoon of my previous batch of homemade yogurt), a digital thermometer and an oven.

🇬🇧Recipe card in the stories > TASTE
🇮🇹 Scheda ricetta in italiano nelle storie > TASTE

HOMEMADE YOGURT
1 liter | sugar free | easy

1 liter fresh whole milk*
1 to 2 tablespoons plain whole milk yogurt**

* The fresher the better. I prefer organic or local/mountain milk.
** Good quality yogurt with live and active cultures. For the best results I use local or mountain dairy farm yogurt or greek yogurt.

1. I pour milk into a heavy pot and I cook over low heat until it simmers and a digital thermometer reads 85°C.
2. I let cool to 42°C in an ice water bath stirring occasionally.
3. I mix 1 glass of cooled milk and yogurt together in a bowl until incorporated and then pour the rest of the milk and stir to combine.
4. I ladle the mixture into glass jars and screw on the lids.
5. I place the filled jars into the oven set at 35°C. (If you can’t set your oven at a temperature from 30° to 40°C, turn it on beforehand at the lowest temperature for 10 minutes, then turn it off and keep door closed until it reaches 42°C. Place the yogurt jars into the oven with the light on).
6. I leave the jars inside the closed oven for 10 hours.
7. I remove the jars without shaking and place in the refrigerator until thickened, about 2 hours.

06/02/2024

| RENOVATE |

Like with every project, it all began with an idea, a vision.

An idea is all it takes to begin the journey.
Reality without dreams leads to nowhere. But dreams without reality are just dreams, though.
Sometimes we just need a sparkle to see the reality of our dreams and to transform what we envision into reality.

Our sparkle was my beloved friend Gaetano

A perfect summer night, Planta Cottage, two old friends, white wine, lots of catching up, citronella, chit chats, laughters, candle light, shared memories, new dreams...

I talk about how I am envisioning our cottage. Gaetano takes his tape measure out and starts measuring and taking notes.

A week after he came up with this project.

Who better than an artist like could light this spark?
That’s what my friend does: he’s able to transform dreams into tangible art.

That’s when Matteo and I realized that our ideas were feasible. Not only they were feasible, they were just amazing! That’s when our Planta Cottage renovation journey started.

— Elena

05/02/2024

| CARE |

Last November we found a lot of seeds in our persimmons, so we decided to try to grow persimmons from seeds. We tried with 4 of them.

Here’s what we did:

1. We rinsed well the seeds under running water.
2. We took a kitchen paper towel and placed the seeds on it. Folded the paper to enclose the seeds and sprayed some water.
3. We enclosed in a container (we used a low, wide glass container with a lid). This creates high humidity needed for seed germination.
4. We placed the container with the seeds on the kitchen counter without disturbing them too much.
5. After two weeks they sprouted: the rootlets had emerged!
6. We prepared a tall pot with holes for excess water drainage and filled it with organic universal soil mix.
7. We made four small holes with our fingers and planted the seeds into the holes with the root downwards, covered them with soil halfway, leaving the top on the outside.
8. We sprayed quite some water until all the soil was perfectly humid and placed the pot near a window, so that it received a lot of light but never direct light.
9. We ensured to keep them moist all the time.

Little by little the shoots appeared, still closed in their seed.

As they grow, the tiny leaves will push through until the seed completely falls off.

One of the four seeds didn’t seem to be able to make it, but then, in an instant, it sprinted and joined the others.

The first two pictures are from today, so two months after sowing in pot.

Nature never ceases to amaze us 🌱🪴

26/01/2024

| TRAVEL |

Looking at the white Monte Rosa and wishing for a snow day here.

23/01/2024

| CARE |

A beautiful memory of our lovely Buia with a sweet expression.

Buia was Elena’s favorite hen.

She was the most bullied, the last in hierarchical order among our first three hens, and she could handle anything with a unique grace. She was always very clean, surprisingly routinary, polite and very affectionate.

So easy to love and impossible to forget ♥

22/01/2024

| CRAFT |

is one of TERRABUCCI’s nine pillars, it’s our creative space.

Do you remember how it felt the last time you made something with your hands? Maybe a cake, a scarf or a painting?
The act of creating something from nothing and watching it come into life, even if your creation was far from perfect, probably made you feel very, very good.

When we make things with our hands, we can find our flow, we get happier without having to chase happiness.

Our modern world makes it very hard to create a space to exist free of distraction, to notice, to find a rhythm where we can just focus on the task at hand, where we can turn off our minds – and phones – and be present in the moment.

When we create things with our hands, time slows, the process becomes meditatative and we feel like we could stay in that moment forever.
By connecting to the materials, to the process, we reconnect to ourselves.

Matteo is a cook and his job already involves creating and working with his hands. But outside of work, he also enjoys gardening, building things with wood and almost any DIY project.

As for me, making things with my hands has become a big part of my work-life balance. I’m a translator and subtitler, and creating with my hands provides a major relief from the immateriality of my knowledge work, and it fulfills my need to create and share things that I have put my love and time in.

From cooking to gardening, home crafts, DIY body-care, macrame, crochet… the more I make, the more I crave making.

— Elena

✧ What do you make with your hands? Let us know in the comments below ✧

16/01/2024

| TASTE |

The galette is a French free-form rustic tart.
The filling is baked in a folded-over pie crust in this quick and easy fruit tart with an irresistibly imperfect look.

This is our healthy version.

BUCKWHEAT ALMOND GALETTE WITH CINNAMON APPLES
vegan | gluten free | sugar free

Galette:
100 g buckwheat groats
100 g almond flour
15 g oats
15 g flax seeds
40 g coconut sugar
50 g cold coconut butter
1 tsp ground cinnamon
1 pinch salt

Filling:
4 apples
180 g applesauce (recipe link in bio)
1 or 2 tsp ground cinnamon
2 tbsp maple syrup

1. I added buckwheat to a bowl with 3-4 times the amount of water and soaked the groats overnight.
2. Once they were done soaking, I gave them a good rinse under running water and dried them in a cloth.
3. In a coffee grinder, I finely blended the flax seeds.
4. In a blender I combined the buckwheat together with all the other ingredients for the galette crust.
5. I formed a disk of dough and let it rest in the refrigerator for half an hour.
6. I used two sheets of parchment paper to roll out the dough, obtaining a disc of 30 cm in diameter.
7. I cut the apples in half, removed the core and sliced them thinly.
8. I spread applesauce on the galette crust, sprinkled with cinnamon, arranged the apples and folded the edges of the galette over the apples.
9. I brushed maple syrup over the apples and the edges of the galette.
10. I baked at 180°C for 25-30 minutes, until the galette was golden brown and crunchy.
11. I served it warm for maximum pleasure.

28/12/2023

| CARE |

One year ago, those three fluffy chicks came into our lives.

They were one of the best birthday gifts ever: Matteo manages to outdo himself every time, when it comes to making gifts to Elena.

They came to fill our empty backyard coop, orphaned by our first three hens.

At first, they didn’t yet have a name, since we didn’t know if they were hens or roosters.

Four months later, it was clear that the white and the black one were hens, Rita and Tina, respectively, and the tiny little grey one, who at the beginning was always hiding and protecting himself under the other two, came out to be an handsome, fierce rooster, Pio Pepe.

24/12/2023

| CARE |

We’ve placed a lot of care, laughter, joy and love under our Christmas tree.

May yours be full of what your heart desires.

Merry Christmas eve!

21/12/2023

| CARE |

We think that caring is closely related to compassion, in its yogic sense of “shared feeling”, a deep sympathy for other beings (humans, animals, or other creatures such as plants), with a sense of commitment, responsibility, and respect towards the other that inspires action to alleviate another’s pain or sorrow.

Like mother’s love, when we care for others we support, we nourish, we embrace. It’s having another’s back.

From our loved ones to pets to house plants and gardens full of juicy tomatoes, caring for other beings has the power to uplift our mental and emotional health. It gives us a sense of purpose, it can elevate our mood and well-being, and it teaches us how to take care of ourselves too.

In particular, caring for pets and plants is a lesson of uncomplex and unconditional love.

At , we love taking care of our three cats Mario, Nina and Dario, our four chickens Pepe, Rita, Tina and Sol, our tortoise Guendalino, our many houseplants, our orchard and vegetable garden... and, of course, we take care of our family and of each other.

What creatures do you take care of?

03/11/2023

| TASTE |

Persimmon is one of our favorite fruit.

(By the way, it's a phrase you'll hear a lot from us, regarding many fruits, we love fruits ☺️)

The persimmons on our tree aren't ripe yet, and sometimes few unripened fruits may fall to the ground.

When this happens, we make them ripen out on the kitchen countertop. The ripening process is slow, so we place them next to apples to speed it up.

An underripe persimmon is quite astringent and causes a “puckering” sensation in your mouth.

To avoid this, you’ll want the persimmons to be a deep reddish orange color and incredibly squishy to the touch: this is the perfect moment to taste Autumn's sweetest treat.

Anyway, we'll have to wait a little before we can eat them, because we are still on Purvakarma cleanse.

31/10/2023

| RENOVATE |

Respecting our home’s history — while injecting it with our personality — is being a balancing act.

Indirizzo

Dormelletto
28040

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http://www.terrabucci.com/

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| CARE | Witnessing this was just incredible. We’re proud of mum Sol who’s brooding since April, and finally she’s got her little nugget. So, if Sol is our granddaughter, we’re great grandparents now! . #terrabucci #plantacottage #cottagecore #slowlife #homesteadlife #backyardchicken #happyhens #ilovemychickens #chickensaspets #chickenlife #pethens #chickenladylife #hatching

| CASA MAFALDA | Everything ready for the first check in of season 2024, even the sun. Check out our latest availabilities for this summer 📩 [email protected] . #terrabucci #casamafalda #rentalhome #vacationrental #superhosts #jugalowstyle #lagomaggiore #bohointeriors #myplantaesthetic #inmydomaine #jungalowstyle #bohoinspiration #airbnbwithpool #casavacanza Music: Sun & Plastic by Philip E Morris

| SUSTAIN | On our eco-conscious journey, we’ve been working hard on a big project: get closer to zero waste and plastic-free living, and we hope we could inspire Casa Mafalda’s guests too. We have made some small changes to meet our goal, and one of them was introducing plastic-free amenities. Our guests will have at their disposal 4 solid cosmetics packaged by us: • hand soap • shower gel • shampoo • conditioner And, as we go to zero waste, we hope our guests will take all of them back home to continue to pamper their skin and hair till the bars disappear completely, without producing any kind of waste. If you’re thinking it, forget the horrible soap bars or tiny plastic bottles filled with cheap products. We use @sapone.antichi.ricordi soaps, that we chose for the quality of their natural and organic products and because they’re an environmentally conscious local small business. . #terrabucci #casamafalda #rentalhome #vacationrental #superhosts #diylove #slowlifestyle #plantbasedlife #homesteadlife #chemicalfreehome #retroaesthetic #simpleliving Music: Barefoot by Summer Soul

| RENOVATE | One year ago we started this crazy journey of remodeling our Planta Cottage. It all started with a simple idea, and since our budget was tiny, we had to make the most effective design choices possible and dive into DIY projects as much as we could. Little we knew that our simple ideas were not so simple, especially when you have to do it by yourself and with a little budget. Obviously, it’s taking longer than normal and expected, but more importantly it became so much more than just a remodel, it became a journey of discovery, a journey of deepening our love and passion for creating something beautiful together. . #terrabucci #plantacottage #diyhome #hometakestime #slowhandmadehome #makehomematter #nestandthrive #mytinyhouse #livetiny #countrycottage #rustichome

| TASTE | If you want your house to smell like a cozy winter dream, make applesauce. Applesauce is one of the healthy food staples we always have handy. We use it to sweeten recipes, as a topping for porridge or yoghurt, or we just spread it on a slice of bread and even eat it by the spoonful! APPLESAUCE healthy | sugar free • 6 apples • 250 ml water • 2 tbsp lemon juice I combine peeled and diced apples, water and lemon in a saucepan. I cook over medium heat until apples are soft, about 30 minutes. I blend apples into a puree with a hand blender. I immediately put it in a jar to create a vacuum and store it in the fridge for a week, or I divide it in portions and freeze it. . #terrabucci #applesauce #nosugar #plantbasedrecipes #deliciousandhealthy #wholefoodplantbased #eatclean #healthytastesgood #easyrecipeideas

Meet Dino the swift, one of Casa Mafalda's most loyal returning guests! Swifts spend their life largely in the skies and they never settle voluntarily on the ground, unless they're injured or too tired because maybe they've spent up to ten months in continuous flight! Once they land they will inevitably die without help, because their wings are too long and their legs are too short to take off from a flat surface. Since the first time 5 years ago, every summer a swift lands in Casa Mafalda's garden and each and every time we've helped him to fly again. We called him Dino and we like to believe that he and his heirs return every summer to visit us. Bye bye, Dino! Till the next time ❤️ #dinotheswift #swiftflight #savinganimals #returningguests #loyalguest #casamafalda #vacationhome #holidayhomes #vacationhouse #airbnbitaly #airbnbplus #airbnbsuperhost #superhost #italianlakes #lakemaggiore #lagomaggiore❤️ #dormelletto