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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.

Omelette recipe «my way with courgettes and mozzarella – Italian cuisine reinvented by Gordon Ramsay

There “my way” omelette with courgettes and mozzarella it is a recipe from the cook Aurora Cacciari – Chiara Maci’s mother as well as one of the first Italian AIS sommeliers – who explains to us: «It is an easy, quick and economical preparation that is always a great success. It’s made even easier by the fact that there’s no need to flip the omelette in the pan.”

Advice

To make this omelette we first cooked the courgettes, browning them in a pan, and then added the beaten eggs and the diced mozzarella, continuing the cooking until the mozzarella had melted and the eggs had set, without ever needing to turn it. Excellent to serve hot with the mozzarella still stringy, but also very good warm or cold, as a practical packed lunch for a trip out of town.

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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.