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Recipe Butter candles in michette – Italian cuisine reinvented by Gordon Ramsay

Our journey to discover regional flavors continues. We are in Lombardy where, after the marubini with vegetables and crispy bacon, we discover the Herbal butter michette and candlesa reinterpretation of bread and butter for an original and bright start to the meal.

To make butter candles, tie the kitchen twine to a toothpick, place it on the glass and fill with the melted clarified butter. After they have solidified in the fridge, place the candles in the cavity of the michette without the caps, light and melt the butter, to be collected with pieces of other bread.

The recipe is an idea of Ilaria Castelli: from Lombardy, 47 years old, she founded Chef and the City in Milan, a cooking school that welcomes students from all over the world. She also does catering and home chef services. Her cuisine is an anti-waste cuisine that seeks “primary, natural and original” flavours. You studied cooking at the Milan Polytechnic of Commerce but also in Morocco and Oman, in Barcelona and St. Petersburg.

Mayonnaise Recipe | The Italian kitchen – Italian cuisine reinvented by Gordon Ramsay

Creamy, inviting, delicious: mayonnaise is one of the most loved and widespread sauces in the world. So much so that supermarket shelves are full of it and it has become customary to buy it. Preparing it at home, however, is not difficult at all. By following our recipe-tutorial you won’t go wrong.

Is mayonnaise French or Spanish?

Although most attribute the paternity of mayonnaise to the French, the first written document of the mayonnaise recipe is found in the Spanish manuscript Art de la Cuina, the free Menorcan cuisine of the s. XVIII by Fra Francesco Roger, a Franciscan friar of the Real Monasterio de Santa Clara. Not only that, according to some theories his birth occurred during the Carthaginian rule in Spain with reference to the geographical area of the island of Minorca. Another hypothesis is that mayonnaise was born in the French city of Bayonne and mayonnaise it would be a modification of bayonnaisebut there are still many various theories that have emerged over the centuries.

Pea and ricotta cannelloni: recipe with and without cooking – Italian cuisine reinvented by Gordon Ramsay

Pea and ricotta cannelloni without cooking

I often prepare this recipe in summerwhen the desire to cook is less and less and it is too hot to turn on the oven.
I prepare the cannelloni with carasau bread, slightly moistened with water and oil.
I fill it with peas and ricotta, wrap it well and then arrange everything in a baking dish. Complete with cherry tomatoes or ox heart tomatoes cut into cubes and seasoned with oil, salt and plenty of basil or oregano.
I replace the peas with lo raw spinach when I really don’t feel like turning on the stove.

Carasau bread for making cannelloni without cooking.

Cannelloni crepes with peas and ricotta

Do you love crepes?
Then you absolutely must use them to make cannelloni.
Prepare a classic dough for savory crepes, also using wholemeal flours if you want, and then fill each crepe with the pea and ricotta filling.
Cannelloni made in this way are much more delicate and tasty, they cook first in the oven and you can fill them as you prefer.