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Stuffed Chicken – Salt & Pepper – Italian Cuisine

1 Remove the entrails, clean them by depriving them of grease and filaments and rinse them (the stomach, in particular, it must be opened and washed well). Cut them into small pieces, fry them with a little oil and, just before turning off the heat, add 1 peeled garlic clove and minced; salt and leave flavor for a few moments.

2 Chop the almonds and the parsley well washed and mix them with the crumbled crumb, the beaten eggs, entrails and grain; knead well everything and salt if necessary. Wash the chicken inside and out, dry it with kitchen paper, salt it internally, fill it with the filling; then sew the opening with a needle and kitchen thread.

3 Clean the pepper, wash it and cut it into small pieces. Heat 4 tablespoons of oil with the remaining garlic, poached, and brown the chicken first on the breast and then on the back. Once golden, remove the chicken (without removing the garlic) and keep it aside, on a tray. Add the pepper and bay leaf to the pan, then pour the passata and season with salt. When it starts to boil add the chicken, lower the heat and cook covered for 2 hours abundant (the time depends on the size and consistency of the chicken). Serve the chicken cut into pieces with the filling and a little sauce.

involving them helps them grow better – Italian Cuisine

Cleaning and tidying the house together with the children promotes their autonomy, helps them develop a greater sense of responsibility and improves their learning. Find out here what benefits it has

Managing children at home and at the same time taking care of household chores sometimes becomes a business. Yet cleaning, tidying and taking care of household activities all together can be a great way to stay away from boredom and tantrums and at the same time keep them engaged in an engaging and constructive activity. "Imitation is the prerogative of their growth and development. In general, children love to do housework since they are very young as they try to imitate the actions of their parents ", he comments Rosanna Schiralli, psychotherapist psychologist, creator together with his colleague Ulisse Mariani of the method of emotional education. "During household chores, children see an action performed by a significant figure from an emotional point of view. They record it in an operational scheme. They reproduce it according to their neurological and motor skills and, finally, fix it in an increasingly evolved mental pattern ", continues the expert, who explains here what benefits household chores have to do together and how to involve them more at home .

Promotes growth e self-esteem

"Setting and clearing, putting clothes in the closet, tidying up the bedroom, cleaning are activities that favor the development of motor coordination and balance, as well as the ability to organize an orderly and coherent sequence of actions and small gestures", explains the psychologist Rosanna Schiralli. «All this favors an increase in the capacity and quality of movement. Furthermore, gestures organized and repeated over time improve logical thinking . But the benefits are also others. Doing household chores with children helps them develop greater self-esteem. "When you are given a task to be done, you show that you trust them," says the expert. Taking part in housework also develops their sense of responsibility and collaboration. «Children can perceive that they are part of the life of a small group, the family. Over time they also learn to follow the instructions that are given. As they become more and more skilled, they feel gratified and at the same time encouraged to improve, "says psychologist Rosanna Schiralli.

Improve learning

Through collaboration in household chores, children can experience cooperation and sharing. "Both promote learning," explains psychologist Rosanna Schiralli. "The first is a fundamental experience to feel active and involved in the relationship and not dependent or opposed. Sharing, on the other hand, is a real emotional nourishment that gives satisfaction and gratification .

What to do to involve children in household chores

«First of all we must not block them. We must also avoid scolding them or preventing them from exploring. In addition, it is important to teach them some strategy to tidy up or clean better in order to convey the feeling that their help is well-liked and appreciated. Then, they should be gratified and encouraged with phrases such as “Ma che bravo! You dusted really well "," Luckily you're there to help me, otherwise I wouldn't be able to do it at all ". They will thus be much more available to hone their "home" skills ", continues the expert.

What to avoid

«While doing household chores, it is important not to allow children to do everything or to insist on something they like, but it is not the right time to do it. It is not educational, "warns the expert. «Even in these activities, in fact, one must be able to say no in order to set borders and not be tyrannized. Hospitality and availability yes, but it is always necessary to give rules to follow .

In the gallery you will find 5 useful tips to involve children in household chores

It is on sale at Sale & Pepe in May … made in the family – Italian Cuisine

Over the years I have seen Ettore Scola's film several times The family that I've always liked for two reasons: the scrolling of the time which, through the characters, tells the social changes in 80 years of Italian history and the apartment where the narration takes place, unchanging and always ready to welcome those who arrive grown up, changed, aged or listening indoors in confession rooms, secrets and truths.

Home and family: two nouns more relevant than ever in these days of duty "seclusion”, So much so that I didn't miss the flashbacks. I don't remember being at home with my parents for so long sons, today large and, despite inevitable small tensions, I was pleased to hear them talk, discuss, joke and even play, as if time had stopped. I appreciated the thoughtful calm of Lorenzo and his discussions suspended between politics and history, as well as enthusiasm for the life of Oliviero, also manifested by the search for and tasting of good food and good wine.

I liked the little things and my cherry tree in bloom which in normal times I would not even have touched with my eyes. I considered the value of having a job that I can do remotely. Every morning, the family grows and enters my editorial staff, through a chat where to start with a good morning, then mail, telephone, skype, zoom and all the systems that allow you to see each other and those with which to paginate and send to print.

In this way, different from the usual, the May issue was born. Also different in content, because circumstances did not allow us to travel around Italy on food and wine itineraries, to host chefs and personalities and above all to let photographers, stylists and home economists work. But we opened ours virtual pantry and, as in the family, we tried to do our best with what we had: a mix of new services, timely products and others that are the result of our beautiful archive. To share, as always, the pleasure of the table with the large family of our readers.

For my opening story, something surfaced in the room of memory: a dish tasted a few kilometers from Vasto, in the small and beautiful winery of the Altieri brothers. In front of a glass of Cerasuolo d'Abruzzo I got to know the "pullastr arpijne", Ie the chicken stuffed with sauce. A dish of home, family, fruit of the peasant tradition that, in Vasto, they told me, it is typical to prepare for Ferragosto. The protagonist is a free-range chicken stuffed with eggs, cheese, breadcrumbs, almonds and its entrails ready to cook for a long time immersed in tomato sauce. The sauce tasty that derives from it, it is used to season wonderful handmade "maccherune".

The recipe is also found in Chieti, where maybe it comes from. In this city the association "Women in Campo-Cia" in collaboration with professor Francesco Stoppa, a scholar of popular traditions, has enclosed it with other 129 from the province of Chieti in the volume The heart of the swallow. Peasant wisdom for a dual-use chicken, prepared on Sundays or holidays, when you didn't go to the fields and there was more time to cook. But above all to stay indoors. With the family.

Laura Maragliano
on Sale & Pepe of May 2020