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Suncatcher snacks! – Italian Cuisine

To quickly conquer a smooth and golden skin, better than on lamps and hours of sun without protection, it is better focus on food, choosing foods rich in beta-carotene, a natural substance that stimulates melanin: all the vegetables and fruits yellow-orange are responsible for this function, from carrots to peppers, up to yellow peaches.
For moisturize the skin, vegetables such as cucumber are almost solid drinks, while the vitamin C of the berries helps the circulation of the skin and fixes the tan.
For to protect the epidermis exposed to the sun, then serve foods rich in different types of antioxidant: ideal tomatoes, a source of lycopene, and blueberries, rich in anthocyanins, while eggs and salmon give lecithins and precious omega 3 respectively.

Moisturizing: spelled with cucumber sauce (190 calories)

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Spelled with cucumber sauce

Protective: tomato sauce and rice noodles (205 calories)

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Tomato sauce and rice noodles

tanning: mix of vegetables and fruit with boiled egg (205 calories)

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Mix of vegetables and fruit with boiled egg

Antioxidant: peach in syrup with quick granita (145 calories)

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Peach in syrup with fast granita

Homemade cat snacks: three ideas – Italian Cuisine

The food for our pets can be prepared with what we have at home, such as vegetables, fruit, fish, eggs and flour

In a time when it is complicated do the shopping, with the handouts that empty too quickly, always have the snacks for our domestic cats it can be a problem. The solution, however, could be that of get them at home, with the products we have and that they can eat even feline friends. Let's see how.

Three homemade snack recipes for cats

Carrot cat bites

To prepare this cat snack you will need: 1-2 tablespoons of honey, 1 egg, 100 g of canned tuna, 1 carrot, whole wheat flour.

The first thing to do is cut the carrot into very small cubes and, in a bowl, mix it with the egg, honey, the tuna fish and a little flour, just to help the mixture thicken. At this point you have to make some small balls, similar in all respects to the crunchy that you buy in the shops and put them in the oven at 180 degrees for about 15-20 minutes.

Paté for cats

For this homemade cat snack you will need: 500 g of fresh or frozen fish, 3 handfuls of rice, 1 courgette, 1 carrot, olive oil.

To prepare cat pate, start by washing and cleaning the courgette and carrot and then put them to boil in a large enough pot. As soon as the water reaches the boil add the fish and cook everything for about 30 minutes. At this point also add the rice and stir, continuing cooking for another 10 minutes. When the rice is ready too, let it cool and then whisk it adding, only after obtaining a pate, a drizzle of oil.

Apple morsels

There apple it is one of the best foods for the cat diet and for preparing delicious apple bites perfect for yours four-legged friends you will only need: 1 apple, 1 egg, oatmeal.

Just peel the apple and cut it into thin wedges, beat the egg and the egg in a bowl oatmeal until creating a homogeneous mixture where to "bread" the apple slices and then cook them on a plate on both sides until they are golden and crispy.

Browse the tutorial to read more tips on preparing cat food at home

Christmas snacks in the shape of a tree – Italian Cuisine

If you are looking for an idea to immediately amaze guests, these themed appetizers perfectly target the goal: they are simple to prepare and truly original and scenographic to see

Who starts well is halfway through the work, an ancient saying goes. So what to bet on if you want yours New Year's Eve dinner or the Christmas lunch succeed perfectly if you don't give them appetizers that will open on menu? To take your guests by the throat, choose some appetizing and scenographic appetizers that the guests will not be able to resist (despite numerous courses await them). A nice idea could be to bring to the table one of the most famous symbols or theChristmas tree, which can be done in different ways, all simple and rather fast, which is no small thing when you have to prepare many dishes.

Christmas tree of puff pastry

L'Christmas sapling of puff pastry it is easy to make, beautiful to look at, and even the little ones will like it. Roll out a roll of pasta puff pastry and cut strips 2 cm wide. Cut the salami in strips, arrange it on the puff pastry and sprinkle with the parmesan. If you don't like salami, you can also use other cured meats, the result will be excellent all the same. Fold the strip over itself, giving it the shape of a tree, and insert a toothpick, previously wet under water. Arrange the saplings on the baking paper, brush the surface with the milk and bake in a preheated fan oven at 220 ° for about 15 minutes. Once baked, let them cool. Cut some cubes of parmesan, which you will use as a base for the trees, and stick the toothpick inside. At the top, place aolive to decorate.

Christmas snacks: savory saplings with olives and parmesan

The savory Christmas trees made from olives and parmesan are an original and nice idea to open the party menu. Not many ingredients are needed but the result will be mouth-watering. Add 150 g of flour white and 100 g of parmesan cheese grated. Add 100 g of butter cut into pieces. Take two eggs, separate the yolks from the whites. Pour the two yolks into the mixture and keep the egg whites aside. Chop 100 g of black olives pitted and combined with the other ingredients. Knead and give the mixture the shape of a ball. Cover it with cling film and refrigerate for about 30 minutes. After half an hour, take the dough and roll it out, until it has reached a thickness of about half a cm. Cut the saplings with a special shaper. Arrange them on a baking tray lined with parchment paper, brush with egg whites and bake in a preheated oven at 200 ° for about 20 minutes. Let them cool and then serve to your guests.

Savory canapes in the shape of a Christmas tree

Perfect for the Christmas holidays, the savory canapes in the shape of a Christmas tree they are a really appetizing appetizer and go well with both meat and fish lunches, depending on the filling you decide to use. Here we propose the version with the Ham. Pour 220 g of the into the robot flour, half sachet of yeast instant, 10 g of butter or oil and 5 g of salt. Start kneading, add 1 egg and continue to mix the ingredients. Take the dough and let it rest for about 15 minutes. Spread it out and make the saplings with one shaper. The molds must be in even numbers because then you will have to overlap them. Take a mold, fill with cubes of cooked ham and cheese of your choice and close with another mold. Seal the edges with a fork to prevent the filling from coming out and decorate with pink peppercorns. Bake in a preheated oven at 200 ° for about 15 minutes.