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Arcobaleno toast … #CiPiace! – The Italian kitchen – Italian Cuisine

Maybe the rainbow food it was a trend and it will never be again but in this period the rainbow cheers up our balconies and why not, it could also cheer up our kitchens! And his portfolio is beautifully rich: rainbow cappuccinos, sushi, rainbow pancakes, cakes and muffins, and then also therainbow toast. And since we at the editorial team have really tried them all, I decided to brush up on this trend to entertain my little girl: it was easy and fun and the rainbow toasts are good … like the others!

Arcobaleno toast how to

There is no need for great explanations, we used gods food coloring powder, of vegetable origin, which are found in all supermarkets.
In three separate saucers we have grated coarse grain of the sweet scamorza. You can also use other stringy cheeses, such as fontina, Swiss hemmental, casera, caciocavallo. I do not recommend mozzerella, a little watery for toast, if you have that, drain it and cut it into small pieces.
In the different dishes we mixed a spoonful of coloring powder with cheese, there is no need to mix them very much, the heat will melt everything and it will be easy.
On each slice of sandwich bread put several piles of cheese, close your toast and toast them!

Expectations vs Reality

On the net there are photos that can distort reality, Chinese rainbow toasts are often made with cheeses already colored during production, which are not easily found in Italy

So don't expect this result.

The result is softer but still fun, especially for the little ones and to improvise a party of rainbows and unicorns.

Gardenscape focaccia: a walk in the kitchen! – Italian Cuisine

Not being able to go out into the open air, someone has found a way (everything to taste) to bring nature into the house!

It's the last one trend in terms of food, which caught on during the lockdown: to raid yeast and flour from the supermarket shelves yes, but to create gods artistic masterpieces. They are called gardenscape buns and other are not that decorated buns with seeds, aromatic herbs, edible flowers, vegetables or what is available in the pantry to 'paint' bucolic landscapes or flowering meadows, all to eat! A way to escape into nature, while staying at home, or rather, in the kitchen!

We did it too: our stylist, Beatrice Prada, the most popular with creative decorations and increasingly good in the kitchen, has prepared it. The procedure is to make a simple one flat bread, which will then become one canvas, on which to give free rein to the imagination.

Flowers, clouds, woods, undergrowth animals: everything is reproducible, assembling the ingredients well. And it's an activity very pleasant to do at home, above all with the children: you make the dough and roll it out, they decorate it as they please … You will see that eyes full of satisfaction and amazement, when you churn out the masterpiece!

Below we provide you ingredients is method to make it at home flat bread which will serve as a basis; in the gallery instead you will find some inspiration found on Instagram those who have already tried to make them: a source of inspiration for your focaccia gardenscape!

How to make the Gardenscape focaccia

Ingredients for the dough

The basis of this recipe is precisely a focaccia. To make a pan, you need: 380 g of flour 0 or manitoba, 15 g of fresh brewer's yeast (or a sachet of dry brewer's yeast), 220 ml of warm water, 1 teaspoon of sugar, 25 g of extra virgin olive oil for the dough, plus a drizzle of oil to grease the pan and to brush the surface, salt to taste.

Method

Take a bowl and pour the water with the sugar and yeast into it. Melt it. Then add oil, flour and salt and with a spoon, create the first amalgam. Transfer the mixture to a pastry board to work it by hand and form a compact and homogeneous mixture. Place the mixture in the bowl, cover it with plastic wrap or a clean cotton cloth and leave it to rest for about an hour and a half.

After the necessary time, take out the dough and spread it in the pan lined with greased parchment paper, also greasing your hands a little to help you stick better. Prick the surface with the prongs of the fork and, if needed, season it again with a drizzle of oil.

Here is your canvas, ready to decorate. To find out how, take a look at our gallery.

Home cocktail: do we try? – The Italian kitchen – Italian Cuisine

With the premises closed, delivery is an alternative to have a good drink: here is how to order ready cocktails to which you just have to add ice. And if you are passionate about mixology, we also recommend a reading while enjoying your Americano

In these months of quarantine the delivery has become the only possible option to eat something other than the home kitchen. And, apart from the possibility now of buy take away, so it will be until June 1st or at least until restaurants, pizzerias, ice cream parlors and bars can reopen. But if many have become familiar with the orders of dishes and food at home, perhaps not everyone knows that you can get a good delivery directly at home cocktail why, let's face it, how many times in the past week have we wanted to sip a Negroni or a nice Mojito?

Home cocktail: here's how

Want to know how to order a home cocktails? Here are some ideas.

MrBubbles has always delivered home made cocktails and continues to do so even in times of COVID-19. Orders received by 11 am arrive all over Italy in 48 hours (except for overloads of couriers due at the moment). You can order a bottle or box containing different quantities of bubbles, or ready-made cocktails that you just have to shake, pour and taste: they range from the Mojito to the Moscow Mule, from the Cosmopolitan to the Blue Lagoon.

Winelivery delivery to the main cities of Italy in 30 minutes from the order ready-made cocktails (they are those of Nio can also be purchased directly from their website) or kits to create them at home with the ingredients and the recipe. And, if you need it, it also brings you cubed ice and some snacks for an aperitif like flaxseed breadsticks or dried tomatoes.

Spirit make ready-to-drink artisan cocktails that just add ice. You can choose, for example, from Negroni, Daiquiri, Vodka Sour, Margarita, each inspired by one of the cities of Italy and its artistic and cultural traditions. You can choose between single flavor boxes or with more flavors and also compose your own cocktail selection.

Ourspirits offers a selection of ready-made cocktails in glass bottles: you can choose from various collections such as that of Italian Style cocktails which includes the Americano, the Boulevardier, the Milan-Turin and the Negroni or the selection of Sours with Gin sour, Mezcal Suor, Vodka Sour, Whiskey Sour. And in this period you have a 10% discount with the #iorestoacasa code.

Meme Cocktails it is the idea of Chiara Cantini who proposes ready cocktails in a jar with screw closure to recall the concept of freshness (like the jams of the past) and practicality: once the jars are received, it is enough to shake well and pour. The ingredients are 100% Tuscan and follow the seasonality: Madame Ada is made, for example, with gin distilled with only organic Tuscan juniper berries and is balanced by the softness of Prato's white vermouth.

Cocktails are also made in Tuscany Factory 77, an idea of the bartender Alessandro Gherardi who created five recipes by studying every detail, from basic liqueurs to the maceration of herbs, fruits and spices, from oxidation techniques to the study of timing: Martini Dry Olive and lemon for example, is obtained from maceration in small stainless steel vats of gin with dried olives and lemon zest, subsequently mixed, aged and oxidized in larger stainless steel vats and then rested in glass.

Keynco It offers artisan bottled cocktails made with quality raw materials and ancient recipes infused with local herbs and spices, refined like good wines. There are proposals for an aperitif or meditation.

Stories to drink

In this period we maybe have a little more time to devote ourselves to reading and then we suggest one on the subject. Old Fashioned Cocktails written by Maria Teresa di Marco of the blog Calycanthus cuisine and by bartender Walter Bonaventura (Guido Tommasi Editore) it is a book that traces the history of mixed drinking through stories that have become legend. It contains anecdotes and curiosities about cocktails that have crossed borders and eras to reach us, but also over fifty formulas that have made the history of mixed drinking. Also included is a glossary to learn the "language" of real mixologists and useful explanations on mixing techniques. So you can also try your hand at DIY cocktails like professionals.