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Today Cristina shows you how to prepare this super typical Italian dish, perfect for the Christmas day’s lunch! A rack of lamb works well with many side dishes and goes great with polenta. Polenta originated in Northern and Central Italy as an everyday porridge. It was especially common during the winter months as it was not…
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Today Cristina shows you how to make homemade Crespelle with spinach and ricotta. Crespelle are the less known Italian equivalent of the world-famous French crepes. Although very similar to crepes, crespelle are often baked in the oven with other ingredients, in our case bechamel sauce and tomato. Ingredients For the crespelle:4 eggs40 gr melted butter250 gr…
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Today we take you to France, because Cristina will show you how to prepare the Yule Log cake (Bûche de Noël). It’s a French traditional cake that dates back to the 19th century. The cake represents the yule log that families would burn starting on Christmas Eve. Our yule log cake is filled with an…
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In Italy there’s the tradition of having fish for dinner on Christmas’ Eve and New Year’s Eve. So, here we are with the perfect recipe: a puff pastry Salmon with zucchini. Cristina shows you how to prepare this beautiful and easy-making dish. It can be a different way to serve fish, which we bet will…
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Sunday means tagliatelle! Today Cristina suggests us a very nice way to cook them, with salmon and lemon zest. If you have time, you can make your own handmade tagliatelle following our tutorial. An excellent alternative is to use the @giovanniranaita tagliatelle, as Cristina did in this case. Ingredients:-350 gr tagliatelle @giovanniranaita-200 gr fresh salmon -1/2 small onion -Salt-Pepper -Lemon zest -Extra…
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In this video-recipe, Cristina shows you how to make fragrant and scented cookies, using three wonderful autumnal ingredients: cinnamon, apples and walnuts. When you bake these cookies, your home is going to have the perfect Christmas scent ♡ Ingredients: -2 eggs -100 gr sugar-100 gr butter-350 gr flour type 00 (or 405 in Germany)-2 apples-50 gr…
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Today Chef Alice – Cristina’s second daughter – shows us how to make light cocoa muffins (no butter, no milk). This is a perfect recipe when you have some leftover egg whites from an only-yolks dish, such as a Carbonara. Ingredients:-170 gr flour-100 ml sunflower oil-3 egg whites-150 gr sugar-30 gr cocoa powder-16 g baking…
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Today Cristina shares with us her “Pizza di scarole” recipe (escaroles pizza). It’s a typical Neapolitan savoury pie, very famous all over Italy. It’s very frequently eaten on Christmas Eve, because in the Italian Christian tradition no animals other than fish can be consumed on that day. Ingredients for the pizza dough: -700 gr flour type…
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In this tutorial Cristina shows us how to make 3 types of handmade fresh “pasta all’uovo”: classic tortelli, candy-wrapped tortelli and farfalle. In this video we cook the tortelli just with butter, sage and Parmigiano cheese, but of course you can do it in many ways (tomato sauce, fresh tomato, pesto etc). Homemade pasta is…
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Today we want to show you how to make “sott’olio” vegetables. The “sott’olio” is a very famous Italian technique to preserve food in extra virgin olive oil. Sott’olio vegetables are delicious on an antipasto platter (served as a bruschetta), as well as a side dish. At the beginning of December, Cristina usually prepares a few…
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