{"id":7750,"date":"2016-08-09T15:37:30","date_gmt":"2016-08-09T19:37:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.francolania.com\/?p=7750"},"modified":"2026-03-06T20:03:24","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T20:03:24","slug":"cooking-ravioli-helsinkis-blogger-residence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/demo-test-link.com\/franco\/2016\/08\/09\/cooking-ravioli-helsinkis-blogger-residence\/","title":{"rendered":"Cooking Ravioli in Helsinki&#8217;s Blogger Residence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-15233 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/demo-test-link.com\/franco\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/1-Helsinki-Harbor-Market-667x500-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"667\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/demo-test-link.com\/franco\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/1-Helsinki-Harbor-Market-667x500-1.jpg 667w, https:\/\/demo-test-link.com\/franco\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/1-Helsinki-Harbor-Market-667x500-1-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 667px) 100vw, 667px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Okay travel bloggers this one is for you! \u00a0<\/strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">As far as blogging residences go the<\/span> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.helsinkisecret.com\/\">#HelsinkiSecret<\/a> residence is one of the best, I&#8217;ve experienced thus far. \u00a0<strong>It is located in the heart of the city and steps away from the Central Railway Station, Bus Terminals, Subways (Metro), Harbor Markets and Taxi Stands. \u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">One afternoon as I was meandering around the harbor area I came across a great <strong>Italian-inspired place called<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/vaelsa.fi\/\">Taverna Vaelsa<\/a>. What a pleasant surprise! It is a quaint place that offers artisan pizzas, homemade pastas, an outdoor caf\u00e9 and a second floor restaurant (with nice harbor views). There is also a boutique food shop where you can purchase a variety of imported Italian food products, and most importantly Taverna Vaelsa&#8217;s homemade pastas. \u00a0<span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>I couldn&#8217;t resist the freshly-made pastas so I purchased their ricotta and spinach ravioli. \u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">As an Italian-American guy that lives long stretches of time in Helsinki, I am very glad to have found this place. \u00a0I&#8217;m planing to head back for their homemade &#8220;creste de gallo&#8221; (cocks comb shaped pasta) and try one of their delicious looking pizzas. \u00a0<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Places like Taverna Vaelsa offers travel bloggers a great opportunity to showcase the fabulous &#8220;foodie&#8221; venues that are sprouting up across Helsinki. \u00a0Most tourists will not know about a gem like this, and they should. \u00a0As bloggers, we can help get the word out! \u00a0I suggest seeking out places like Taverna Vaelsa, buy some local fare, and cook up a fabulous meal. <strong>Yes, it&#8217;s possible to cook at the Helsinki Secret residence! \u00a0Watch the video below and I&#8217;ll show you how.\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>Now let&#8217;s get to cooking our ravioli!\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/youtu.be\/4AjAAdsNLPc<\/p>\n\n    <div class=\"xs_social_share_widget xs_share_url after_content \t\tmain_content  wslu-style-1 wslu-share-box-shaped wslu-fill-colored wslu-none wslu-share-horizontal wslu-theme-font-no wslu-main_content\">\n\n\t\t\n        <ul>\n\t\t\t        <\/ul>\n    <\/div> \n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Okay travel bloggers! As far as blogging residences go the Helsinki Secret residence is tops.  And, you can do some nice cooking in the space as well. Watch this video and I&#8217;ll show you how I cooked up some delicious ricotta and spinach ravioli.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15234,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"postBodyCss":"","postBodyMargin":[],"postBodyPadding":[],"postBodyBackground":{"backgroundType":"classic","gradient":""},"footnotes":""},"categories":[1333,20,84,214,1330,706,274,161,1339,1340,162,1341,133,79,91,17,119],"tags":[1334,21,140,153,802,154,1273,1275,1342,342,1336],"class_list":["post-7750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-helsinkisecret","category-chef-franco-lania","category-commentary","category-cooking-demonstrations","category-countries","category-demonstrations","category-finland-2","category-finland","category-finland-countries","category-helsinki-finland-countries","category-helsinki-finland-travel","category-helsinki-harbor-market","category-media","category-news","category-travel","category-video","category-videos","tag-helsinkisecret","tag-chef-franco-lania","tag-cooking","tag-finland","tag-food","tag-helsinki","tag-helsinki-secret-residence","tag-northern-europe","tag-taverna-vaelsa","tag-travel-2","tag-travel-bloggers","post_format-post-format-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo-test-link.com\/franco\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7750","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo-test-link.com\/franco\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo-test-link.com\/franco\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo-test-link.com\/franco\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo-test-link.com\/franco\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7750"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/demo-test-link.com\/franco\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7750\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15235,"href":"https:\/\/demo-test-link.com\/franco\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7750\/revisions\/15235"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo-test-link.com\/franco\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo-test-link.com\/franco\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo-test-link.com\/franco\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo-test-link.com\/franco\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}