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JJ Martin’s holiday table: elegant tips (video) – Italian cuisine reinvented by Gordon Ramsay


What does a fun board look like?
«Things have changed a lot in the last 10 years when it comes to table preparation: people have learned to have fun. You used to use your wedding dishes every 3 months or never. My table is meant to be an encouragement to play with the things you have in your cupboard; to elevate the role of mise en place”.

What is your favorite part of preparing your table?
«I love decorating the table with small colored Murano glass vases made by Salviati for my home line. I enjoy filling them with flowers and composing an informal centrepiece. This brings so much light and color to the table without prints and without overwhelming the rest. If you want to give more importance and solemnity, add an imposing vase in the center, then remove it, like a theatrical backdrop, when the guests are seated. I suggest it for a Christmas table, for example.”

Trends?
«Champagne glasses paired with colored tumblers. I chose the first ones vintage, carved and transparent, to balance the first ones. The napkins are large and white, to lighten a very important table. And embroidered with my initials. In the markets I also found small salt shakers. I used small clear glass plates with gold edges for the bread, on a very decorated tablecloth. The large plates are from the 2023/24 collection in a green, yellow and white palette with a touch of joy without being too Christmassy. I’m not a big fan of traditional Christmas services. So I chose colored carved glasses, precious but not solemn, and champagne glasses, but vintage. Finally white napkins, embroidered with my initials, to dampen all these fantasies.”

Christmas log, the holiday classic. Recipe – Italian cuisine reinvented by Gordon Ramsay

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Also called “hole of Noël“, The log of Christmas it is a Christmas dessert particularly popular in Northern European countries and considered a classic of French pastry making and now much loved in Italy too. An ever-present and constantly evolving dessert. Delicious and refined, it always welcomes new tastes thanks to the various fillings that make it a convivial dessert, so much so that it can be appreciated and enjoyed with friends and relatives in a joyful festive atmosphere. The Yule log is an easy recipe, but the preparation requires delicacy and precision. I am ready to reveal the original recipe and some fundamental secrets for the success of a Yule log with ai jam berries and dark chocolate ganache. A sweet surprise for your guests!

The recipe for the Christmas log

Ingredients

For the base

  • 6 egg yolks
  • 3 egg whites
  • 210 g of granulated sugar
  • 160 g of 00 flour

For the chocolate ganache for the filling

  • 100 g of fresh liquid cream
  • 150 g of dark chocolate
  • 6 tablespoons of berry jam

For the chocolate ganache for decoration

  • 200 g of fresh liquid cream
  • 300 g of dark chocolate

Method

For the base

  1. Separate the yolks from the whites and place them in two separate containers. Using an electric whisk, whip the egg whites until stiff.
  2. In the same way, whip the egg yolks with 160 g of sugar, poured in small doses. We will use the remaining part at the end of cooking.
  3. Using a spatula, incorporate the egg whites into the mixture, making movements from top to bottom, which are essential to avoid breaking down the dough. Add the sifted flour and mix slowly.

What is the holiday dish of your zodiac sign? – Italian Cuisine

What is the holiday dish of your zodiac sign?


In this festive atmosphere, it is fun to consult the gastronomic horoscope to find out which is the ideal dish for your zodiac sign – or who you love. And then there are 12 recipes!

From Christmas to New Year, ready to put our legs under the table knowing when we will start but not when we will be able to get up permanently for the Parties? Whether you have good intentions of containment or that you postpone them all to early January, it doesn't matter: Italian cuisine offers many traditional dishes for the Christmas holidays and they are (almost) all irresistible. Everyone has their favorite dish: the one that comes best to mum, the traditional dish of our hometown, the dish that reminds us of wonderful moments. In this post I will propose you a traditional holiday dish ideal for any zodiac sign, you are ready?

Aries

You are one who does not joke, Aries, not even at Christmas. This is why the dish I have thought for you is Stuffed capon, traditional that you really can't and edible only if then the bingo or the Christmas movie awaits you and nothing more challenging!

Bull

There is no better comfort zone than a plate of beef broth (with the pieces of meat chosen by the trusted butcher) in which tortellini swim blessed! Torone, you look great with your legs under the table and are in no hurry to wait for the broth to cool.

Twins

Since you have the minimum amount of time with your legs under the table so as not to offend anyone, you need to keep yourself light and for this reason one of your favorite dishes remains the very traditional bracing salad, disguised as vegetables but with the host of capers, olives and anchovies.

Cancer

It may be the air of tenderness that hovers in these days of celebration, Cancer, but you volunteer to brush the remaining sweets at any time of the day. From the last slice of panettone to the crumbs of Ricciarelli, from the mascarpone cream remained at the bottom of the bowl to struffoli who have tried to escape from the plate you will not really grace any.

Lion

You are the undisputed king of all vices, obviously including those at the table. This is why your favorite part of the holidays is making kilometer orders in the rotisserie of all those foods that you would never prepare yourself. Give her scallops au gratin to the pate, from prawn cocktail toRussian salad. The deli counter in the center almost attracts you more than the jewelery counter.

Virgin

If there is a party you really have no doubts: you want the gastronomic panettone. One of cured meats, one of fish and one even vegetarian, to please everyone. Tidy, composed, not even crumbling or dirty: in short, it is really perfect and you wonder why you have been waiting for the holidays to enjoy one.

Balance

To warm your little heart during the holidays, one of your favorite dishes is the lentil and chestnut soup, thick and hot just the way you like it. Given the calories it serves as an appetizer, first and second course but if proposed on a controlled feast day it also accepts to have a Roast in Crust.

Scorpio

You are the zodiac sign most linked to superstition then a cotechino with lentils who bring money, as they say, nobody really takes it away from you! Indeed, while you are there in your parties there are not even the grapes and the pomegranate, all natural lucky charms!

Sagittarius

When it comes to parties, you raise your head and volunteer to organize too, thanks to Jupiter who rules your zodiac sign. So your favorite holiday dish is great triumph of fried food, the one that overflows from the two-family serving dish and that to be digested requires at least an afternoon on the sofa drinking carbonated water.

Capricorn

With all the Saturn flowing in your Capricorn veins you have a natural predilection for the leftover dinner, the one in which the dishes on the table have no logical thread that unites them. Among these your favorite leftovers are the cannelloni warm up that, you argue, are even better than the day before.

fish tank

Since you are not really a lover of traditions I would say that you will not take great pains to cook during the holidays and if you are offered a salmon pasta you would not make a turn. Indeed, just to go against the tide you could give yourself to summer dishes like i prawns with lemon or thesea ​​Salad.

Fish

Even at the table you want to pamper yourself, Pisces, and in this period of holidays even more. You will not miss comfort food of the highest level like it honey glazed shank, the mashed potatoes engulfed in a generous grating of Parmesan cheese and all the dishes that remind you of the birthplace of when you were little. Romantic!

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