Category: Holidays and Events recipes

• Rack of lamb with polenta

  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…

• Crespelle

  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…

• Yule Log Cake

  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…

• Puff pastry Salmon

  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…

• Sott’olio vegetables

  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…

• Turkey Roll

  Next Thursday is Thanksgiving Day. It’s not an Italian tradition of course, but it can be a chance to say “thank you” to someone that is special to you. In this video Cristina will cook for us an Italian version of the classical turkey, usually served on Thanksgiving Day. She will make a turkey roll…