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Can I do the shopping on the weekend? The new restrictions in Lombardy – Italian Cuisine

After the first ordinance that imposes the curfew starting from Thursday 22 October from 11 pm to 5 am, new restrictions arrive signed by the president of the Lombardy Region Attilio Fontana to counter the spread of the contagion from covid-19.

In addition to travel ban from 11pm to 5am, except for proven needs to be communicated through aself-certification, i shopping centers will be closed on weekends, while bars and restaurants will have to close earlier.

Shops closed over the weekend: the new anti-coronavirus restrictions

On Saturdays and Sundays, the closure of large sales structures as well as retail businesses inside the shopping centers is arranged. The provision referred to in the previous sentence does not apply to the sale of foodstuffs, as well as pharmacies is parapharmacies and other product categories.

It is mandatory both for retail businesses and for food and beverage outlets to display a sign at the entrance to the venue stating the maximum number of people admitted simultaneously in the same room, based on the protocols and guidelines in force.

These businesses must adopt access rules, based on the characteristics of the premises, in order to avoid gatherings and ensure the maintenance of at least 1 meter of separation between customers. In particular, medium and large sales structures must ensure the provisions of the previous period, giving priority, where possible, to methods (app, internet etc.) for booking access to the business.

Curfew: early closure of activities

The activities of food and beverage outlets in both public and private areas (including, by way of example, bars, pubs, restaurants, ice cream parlors, pastry shops, rotisseries, pizzerias, kiosks, mobile bars) are permitted from 5.00 to 23.00, with consumption at the table, and with a maximum of six people per table (cohabitants and spouses are not counted in this number), and up to 18.00 in the absence of consumption at the table. With the closure of public establishments at the appointed time, any administration to the patrons present must cease and the premises must be cleared. Catering with home delivery is always allowed in compliance with the hygiene and health regulations for both packaging and transport activities, as well as, until 11.00 pm, catering with take-away or drive-through mode, with a ban on consumption on the place or adjacent.

The so-called '24-hour' vending machines that distribute drinks and packaged foods, overlooking the public street, are closed from 6.00 to 5.00; this measure does not apply to vending machines for milk, milk products and water.

The prohibitions referred to in the previous points do not apply to the food and drink administration shops present on the motorway network, on ring roads and in airports.

It is forbidden to consume food and drinks in areas open to the public from 18.00 to 5.00. The consumption of alcoholic beverages of any strength is always prohibited in public areas including parks, gardens and villas open to the public.

30 recipes for NOT cooking this weekend – Italian Cuisine

Tartare, sandwiches, carpaccio, panzanelle and cold desserts. The weekend isn't always made for cooking: here are 30 recipes to be enjoyed with the stove off

The weekend finally comes! And in summer it can mean trips to the sea, afternoons in the pool between one dive and another or walks on the shores of the nearest lake. Commitments, heat and fatigue do not help you dream of the stove when you return home, but don't worry!

Salads, tartare, sweet and savory fruit salads, friselle, sandwiches and carpaccio are the dishes that will save dozens of summer lunches and dinners. If this weekend you don't feel like cooking, you can indulge yourself in the preparation of healthy and tasty recipes based on meat, fish, vegetables and fruit. A few scoops of ice cream will delight simple desserts after maybe having an espresso with an ice cube, as was done many years ago.

To compose a menu without cooking, let yourself be inspired by the recipes: velvety pepper and peach, fresh mix of vegetables with cucumber juice, marinated cucumbers and oregano cream, tartare with cuttlefish and Port reduction, slipper with tuna, aubergines and arugula, salad reinforced with legumes, pineapple carpaccio with peach sauce, mix of vegetables and fruit with boiled egg, watermelon and raspberries with yogurt ice cream, friselle with rocket and mortadella, green bean salad and mozzarella with cream of corn, tuna tartare with mixed herbs, green salad with currant and goat cheese, Marinated anchovies, mixed peach tartare and mint yogurt, carcadè minestrone and fruit, scones with carne salada and melon, spiced fruit salad with courgettes and melon, carpaccio with raspberry sauce, tartar of cod and tomato tarragon, skewers at anchovies and basil, peach, lettuce and bacon salad, centrifuged mixed vegetables with panzanella, Arabic sandwich with swordfish and tuna, carpaccio and spicy peach sauce, avocado and mackerel salad, coconut ice cream and mango carpaccio, cucumber tartar mint and yogurt, mini sandwich with nails in oil and centrifuged fennel and cucumbers with stracciatella.

Below and in the gallery the 30 recipes for the weekend

Duffin: sweets for the weekend breakfast – Italian Cuisine

A cross between a donut and a muffin. Do you know them?

There is something more beautiful than doing family breakfast in the weekend? Wake up calmly all together, gather around a table for drink coffee and cappuccino and eating something good for many is almost a weekend ritual.

If you want to amaze yours with something good and original, but also easy and quick to prepare, the right recipe could be the one Duffin.

Don't you know them? They are treats halfway between a donut it's a muffin, because they remind the flavor of fried donuts, but they are made in the oven. Duffins can be filled, for example, with cocoa cream and hazelnuts or jam to make them even more delicious.

How to make duffins

Ingredients

For about 30 duffins you need: 100 g sugar, 1 egg, 100 g butter, 140 g flour 0, 2 teaspoons of baking powder, 80 g white yogurt, lemon peel and granulated sugar, cocoa and hazelnut cream or jam to taste.

Method

The preparation of duffins is very simple. To begin mix in a large container – with a hand whisk – the sugar and butter, then add the eggs and continue to turn vigorously to obtain a homogeneous mixture.

Then add the yogurt, flour and baking powder and lemon peel and continue mixing with the whisk. The dough must be very soft.

Turn on the oven at 180 ° and butter, flour the molds and with the help of a spoon pour the mixture into each. Let them cook for about 15 minutes.

While the treats are in the oven, heat the cream a little in a saucepan to melt it and pour it into a piping bag to better dose it into the duffins. If instead you want to use jam you can use a spoon to fill the duffins, being careful, however, not to ruin them.

Remove the desserts from the oven and fill them by making a small hole in the lower part and pass them in the granulated sugar – when they are still hot – before serving them.

The duffins are kept for a few days so you can increase the doses and prepare a sufficient amount for the week, hardly any will remain!