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Christmas and stress-free shopping – Italian Cuisine

Christmas and stress-free shopping


Don't panic! Christmas is around the corner, but there is still time to do everything. Here are the tips for those who have to cook during the holidays, but also to stock up for the following days

You are already going crazy with the endless shopping list for the next few days? Don't worry, take a break, think and then act!

Shopping list for those who will cook during the holidays

Making a shopping list for those who cook Christmas menus is a bit more complicated than usual because you have to get exactly everything you need without forgetting anything.
We suggest you or to make one recipe list that you will prepare e next to it a list of ingredients necessary.
Always take something extra in case of possible failure in the kitchen. A pack of eggs 12 is better than a six also because if the eggs are left over you can use them later as they have a fairly long storage.
Don't overdo it with easily perishable products.
In addition to this, don't forget what you need for the family breakfast, any snacks even if you must not underestimate the amount of things you will have to dispose of between sweets and other delicacies of all kinds.
Don't forget the bread which is always needed and maybe buy a little more to freeze.
And don't forget either tea and herbal teas that will accompany the slow afternoons at home and help to better digest the holidays.

Shopping list for those who won't cook during the holidays

Those who do not cook, on the other hand, are certainly more fortunate because they will be able to enjoy the holidays pampered and in total relaxation, but watch out because, if you are among them, you could find without stocks at home for days if you don't get organized in time.
Grocery stores and supermarkets will be closed for the holidays, so make sure you have everything you need for the next few days. Those who cook will always have something to put in their teeth because leftovers they never end. Those who are guests, on the other hand, usually have nothing at home.
Take a good one stock up on vegetables and fruit for the stage detox after party and buy the necessary to prepare meals with minimum effort and maximum yield.
Salads of legumes and cereals for example, or baking pans and flans of baked vegetables, always pasta for a quick first and meat and fish to be frozen already portioned.
A nice amount of eggs also should never fail to prepare omelettes, Pancake for breakfast and cakes and biscuits for a snack or to give to your hosts during the holidays.
You make a nice one too stock up on bread or flour and yeast if you have time and desire to prepare pizzas and homemade focaccia.

Supermarket, but also small shops

Don't crowd supermarkets these days, remember there are also shops that never as in this period need a little support.
For meat, fish, fruit and vegetables, and also for bread, stock up on food small trusted shops and for everything else go to supermarket, trying to choose, if you can, a suitable time.
Very early in the morning there is less confusion, there is less queue and there is more choice.
Buy online what you can choose without looking, smelling and touching, i.e. packaged products, but not fresh products, and make sure you do it in time because deliveries will also be delayed in the coming days.

Stress-free holidays

Enjoy your holidays as much as you can, in this difficult year we all deserve it!
Cook with a little advance what you just need to heat or defrost. Mostly, cook less.
Do not prepare lucullian lunches and dinners because you will be few at the table and it is never worth it waste on food.
If you really can't regulate yourself with quantities, get yourself some trays for freezingand or give away what is left over.
The Christmas it is not only dinner and lunch, but also an important moment of sharing, not only of the table.
Greetings to you all!

Sweet arancine: Alessandro Enriquez's greedy idea for Christmas! – Italian Cuisine


From the genius of Alessandro Enriquez in collaboration with chef Favaloro, here is a delicious recipe for your Christmas!

Loving good food and traditions, revisiting them with creativity and passion: this is the magic formula of Alessandro Enriquez. And don't be misled by his great dedication to Italian cuisine, he is neither a chef nor a restaurateur, but an explosive visionary creator who loves to mix his Sicilian origins with the aesthetics of beauty – and good!

Alessandro Enriquez is a stylist with a journalistic past in love with his Sicily, but not only. He took us to the States for Thanksgiving and to Argentina for the day of Tango through special menus designed with great professionals in the sector to which he added all his effervescent artistic exuberance. And also for the holiday season, Alessandro Enriquez has done one of the things he does best: find a prepared partner and create a new idea!

Like a gourmet Santa Claus, the irreverent designer has taken up the tradition of the cuccìa together with that of the arancina, letting himself be guided by the skilled hands of chef Vincenzo Favaloro from Palermo. Together they thought of an exclusive dessert washed down with Pop Caffè and Marsala. What a gift, thank you!

Cuccia Arancine and Modica Chocolate PGI with Pop Coffee and Marsala reduction

Recipe by Alessandro Enriquez and chef Vincenzo Favaloro from Palermo

Boil the rice and wheat, lightly salting the water and once drained, mix it still hot with the fine sugar, so that the starches give the rice and sugar a compact consistency.

Roll out the rice to cool and compact it, in the meantime add abundant Ciomod Modica PGI chocolate chips to the classic cuccià (ricotta and wheat).

Take the cooled rice and wheat back and proceed by creating a hollow in the palm of your hand to be stuffed with a spoonful of cream and close with a commensurate amount of rice to form a ball the size of an average orange. (does not have to be as big as salty arancini)

Pass the arancine in a mixture of water, flour and eggs and then in the breadcrumbs. Fry in hot seed oil.

Once fried, serve them on a plate open in half, decorating them with ricotta cream and some candied fruit. Last but not least insert a pump in which you have inserted a correct Pop coffee with some Marsala to dose as desired.

Christmas Star Recipe – Italian Cuisine – Italian Cuisine

Christmas Star Recipe - Italian Cuisine


Let yourself be conquered by the magic of the holidays and prepare these delicious frosted Christmas stars

  • 360 g powdered sugar
  • 150 g almond flour
  • 125 g flour
  • 70 g egg whites (about 2)
  • 50 g hazelnut flour
  • 50 g granulated sugar
  • cinnamon powder
  • salt

Jumbled up flour with granulated sugar, 80 g of powdered sugar, a pinch of salt and a generous amount of cinnamon; then add the egg whites and mix.
Place the dough between two sheets of baking paper sprinkled with icing sugar and roll it out to 1 cm thick.
Cut it out with star molds and bake the biscuits at 150 ° C for 10 minutes. Remove from the oven and let them cool.
Jumbled up 280 g of powdered sugar with 6 tablespoons of cold water forming a smooth and shiny glaze. Transfer it to a disposable pastry bag, cutting a very small hole to draw a precise outline of the icing on the cookies; then widen the cut and cover the stars with the icing with the help of a toothpick to distribute it evenly; alternatively, dip the cookies in the icing or brush them.
Storage: closed in an airtight box, placed in a cool place, they keep for 10 days.

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