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New Year Dinner

29/12/2014

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As promised in our previous post we would like to give you some ideas for a tasty and fresh New Year Dinner experience! Enjoy our Menu!

Smoked Salmon canapé with salted butter and white sauce

Lemon pasta with salmon and mint

Baked Sea Bream or St Pierre in foil with tomatoes and potatoes

Chocolate cream with whipped cream

At Midnight: Cotechino and lentils

  • Salmon Canapé

Toast a few slices of bread and cut it in two parts.

Spread the butter and add the salmon on the top ( if you like squeeze 3/4 drops of lemon)

Serve with the white sauce made of white yogurt with paprika, salt, oil and parsley.

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Salmon Canapé
  • Lemon Pasta

Clean off and cut the salmon and the onion. Put these two ingredients in a pan with extra virgin olive oil, after a few minutes grate the peel of one lemon, cook for a few minutes.

Mix up with the salmon one glass of milk, one glass of double cream, 4 spoon of Parmigiano, hot pepper, half squeezed lemon and salt.

Cook all together on a low fire for 10 minutes.

During the same time put on fire a pot with salt and water for the pasta.

When the water boils cook the pasta, get it out 1-2 minute before it is ready and put it directly in the pan with the salmon with a little bit of boiling water.

Mix up all together for a few minutes and at the end, cut and add the mint.

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Lemon Pasta Ingredients
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Preparation 2
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Preparation 1
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Preparation 3
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A Very Good Result!
  • Baked Sea Bream or St Pierre in foil

Season the inner part of the fish with salt, garlic and parsley.

Put the fish in a big oven pan that you have covered with baking paper.

On the top of the fish put salt, oil, tomatoes and sliced potatoes.

Cover with baking paper and cook in oven for 30 minutes at 180 celsius degrees.

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Baked St Pierre Ingredients
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Preparation 2
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Preparation 3
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This is it!
  • Chocolate cream

Put 500ml of milk In a big pot and warm it on low heat.

During this time mix up 5 red parts of egg with 100 grams of sugar.

Add 80 grams of flour into the eggs.

When the milk is warm mix up it little by little with the eggs.

Then put all on very low fire, add the chocolate and turn with a spoon until the cream is thick.

Add some butter biscuits and whipped cream.

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Chocolate Cream Ingredients
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Preparation 1
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Preparation 2
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Preparation 3
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Our Desert Is Ready!
Last but not least, the star of the dinner is lentils, symbolizing money and good fortune for the coming year. Eat them at midnight and do not forget to wear your red underwear to ring in the new year! They say it'll bring you luck in the coming year.


  • Cotechino and lentils

Boil cotechino in a pot with hot water for 10 minutes.

In a pot mix up carrots, onions, fresh tomatoes, hot pepper and oil for a few minutes. Then add lentils and mix for 5 minutes.

Add cold water, salt and close the pot. Cook until the water evaporates.

If the lentils are still hard, put again cold water and cook again until they are soft. Be aware that some lentils need more that 3 hours of cooking.

When the lentils are ready, serve a few slices of cotechino with 3-4 spoon of lentils.

Happy New Year!!!
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Cotechino and Lentils
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Christmas & New Year In Rome

16/12/2014

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This time we would like to be brief and clear! We taught that a few tips about what to do in Rome during Christmas and New Year Holidays would be useful for you.

Let's start!

1 - One of the best ways to understand a City is to explore its most beautiful and colorful open air markets
  • VIMINALE MARKET - via Cesare Balbo - Mon to Sat, 7-14 - Metro:  Line A, stop Repubblica Line B, stop Termini
  • MACAO MARKET - via Montebello - Mon to Sat, 7 – 15 - Metro:  Line A and B, Termini
  • CAMPO DEI FIORI MARKET - Campo de' Fiori - Mon to Sat - 7 - 14 - From Termini Station, Bus Line 64
  • CAMPO MARZIO MARKET -  Largo Monte d'Oro - Mon to Sat - 7-15 - Metro: Line A stop Spagna
  • PIAZZA SAN COSIMATO MARKET -  Piazza San Cosimato - Mon to Sat, 6-13, Tram Line  8
  • TRIONFALE MARKET - Via Andrea Doria 3 - Mon to Sat, 7-14 (up to 19 on Tue and Fri), Metro: Line A, Ottaviano
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Campo De Fiori Market, Rome, Italy
2 - What do you think about buying some delicious fresh food and then try to cook some recepies of the Italian cooking tradition. These are some good ideas:

Christmas Lunch:
Mozzarella, Parmesan, Ham and Salami
Tortellini in Brodo
Mixed Boiled meat with green sauce and home made maionese
Ricotta cream with raspberry and meringue

New year dinner:

Smoked Salmon with salted butter and white sauce
Pasta with lemon, salmon and mint
White Fish baked in oven with potatoes and pachino tomatoes
Chocolate cream with whipped cream
At Midnight: Cotechino and lentils

Next week we will post some recepies for New Year dinner. Here you have a coule of preview pictures!
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Ingredients for Pasta with lemon, salmon and mint
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Ingredients fot white fish baked in oven with potatoes and pachino tomatoes
3- Do not miss the amazing museums, exhibitions and events

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00 Presepi  2014
(100 Creches)
Sale del Bramante

Address: Piazza del Popolo, 1
From 27-11-2014 to 06-01-2015

 
Bellissima, L'Italia dell'Alta Moda dal 1945 al 1968
MAXXI
Address: Via Guido Reni, 4A
From 02-12-2014 to 03-05-2015

 
Escher
Chiostro del Bramante
Address: Via Arco della Pace, 5
From 20-09-2014 to 22-02-2015


National Geographic Italia. Food, il futuro del cibo (The Future Of Food)
Palazzo delle Esposizioni
Address: Via Nazionale, 194
From 18-11-2014 to 01-03-2015

 
Wildlife. Photographer of the Year 2014
Museo Civico di Zoologia
Address: Via Ulisse Aldrovandi, 18
From 22-11-2014 to 06-01-2015




American Chronicles: The Art of Norman Rockwell 
Palazzo Sciarra Museo Fondazione Roma
Address: Via del Corso, 239
From 11-11-2014 to 08-02-2015


Enel Contemporanea
(Contemporary Art)
MACRO Testaccio
Address: Piazza Orazio Giustiniani, 4
From 08-12-2014 to 11-01-2015


Leonardo da Vinci. Il genio e le invenzioni (Leonardo da Vinci, The genius and the inventions)
Palazzo della Cancelleria
Address: Piazza della Cancelleria
From 30-04-2009 to 30-04-2016



Sergio Ceccotti: La vita enigmistica
(The enigmatic life)
Casino dei Principi a Villa Torlonia
Address: Via Nomentana 70
From 22-10-2014 to 11-01-2015


We Run Rome 2014
Via dei Fori Imperiali, Terme di Caracalla
H: 15.00 - 31/12/2014
Registration needed
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We Rune Rome 2015
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Escher Exhibition, Chiostro del Bramante, Rome, Italy
4 - Last but not least, celebrate the last night of 2014 in one of the most beautiful places of the world! Next week we will publish the exact locations for 2014 New Year's Eve.
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Colosseum New Year Party, Rome, Italy
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Dalmatia & The Stone

8/12/2014

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It is not just a case if there are so many beautiful little harbours and towns all around the Dalmatian coast and islands. Most of them are there from centuries, indestructible, thanks to the stone building culture. From the shepherd small huts, in the country where olives, fig trees and vineyards grow on a land liberated from stones, stacked in little walls, for years and centuries, by patient women hands, to the imposing roman's emperor Diocletian Palace, in Split, the former "Spalato".
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Sutivan Village, Brac Island. Old Street
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Typical Dry Stone Walls In Croatian Islands
The old town was built inside the palace's walls to be protected from barbaric invasions after the fall of the Roman Empire. And the result of that, today, is an amazing and unique mélange of different styles that cohabit perfectly well in the historical center of Split: roman columns, gothic windows, baroque balconies...And, in the back, small venetian medieval streets, very similar to the "salizada" around San Marco Place in Venice.
In fact, after the Roman Empire, a lot of invasions, the medieval Kingdom of Croatia, a struggle for Dalmatia that lasted centuries between Venice and the Kingdom of Hungary, the Dalmatian coast and the islands passed (until 1797) under the cultural influence and the power of the Republic of Venice.
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Diocletian Palace, Split Center. Croatia
"La Serenissima" used the wood and the stone of Istria (north of Dalmatia) and Dalmatia to construct some of her splendid palaces along the Canal Grande. And, at the same time, in Dalmatia, little towns as Zadar (Zara), Trogir (Trau), Sibenik  (Sebenico), Split (Spalato), Hvar (Lesina), Korcula (Kurzola) and even Dubrovnik (Ragusa) that was a rich and independent- paying for that, Venetians and Turks- little Republic, began to look like, in a much smaller edition, the magnificent Venice. With a very important advantage: the stone.
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Dubrovnik Stradun, Croatia
It is said that even the White House, in Washington, was built of this beautiful white and solar materiel that inspired so many extraordinary sculptors as Ivan Mestrovic (see the Mestrovic Gallery in Split) that still has heirs in Croatia.
On the island of Brac where are the most important quarries of the precious stone, you can visit, in Pucisca, the Stone cutter School. This institution, created at the beginning of the 20th century, keeps alive an old craft tradition that assures, as the poet says, that "a thing of beauty is a joy for ever".
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Stone Cutter School In Pucisca, Brac Island, Croatia
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Blaca Monastery, Brac Island, Croatia. Stone Houses Built In The Stone
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