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SILVIO CICCHI:Male Age:54 A restaurant-trained Executive Pizza Chef, he is the author of upcoming book of pizza recepy: “PIZZA e FANTASIA“, you can download it for free registering on this site. He currently resides in Spinetoli (ITALY) with his cats and dogs. Specialized in Business start up – Pizza dove – Pizza courses – Art of pizza.
Focaccia With Tomatoes Momo Onion Savoy
Recipes

Focaccia With Tomatoes Momo Onion Savoy

Focaccia With Tomatoes Momo Onion Savoy. In recent weeks I have had a boy from Nepal enrolled in one of my "Professional Practical Courses ”here in my school. You can imagine the cultural difference compared to our Italy.

I learned with immense pleasure the preparation of a typical Nepalese dish, it is a large tortellino called Momo. For those interested, can access more information on the dedicated link on the Wikipedia portal following this link.

Focaccia With Tomatoes Momo Onion Savoy
Focaccia With Tomatoes Momo Onion Savoy

Focaccia With Tomatoes Momo Onion Savoy

On his next return to Nepal he will open a pizzeria, since Katmandu is frequented by many tourists during the year, curious and climbers seen the great peaks offered by the Himalayan chain and neighboring Tibet.

During the week of the course we decided to prepare one of the most popular pizzas in his country of origin. It is a focaccia with the addition of fresh sliced ​​tomato, the filling of the tortellino called Momo, onions and savoy cabbage cut into thin strips.

Focaccia With Tomatoes Momo Onion Savoy

Tomatoes Momo Onion Cabbage for a super focaccia

Below is the video of the preparation of this excellent focaccia.

VIDEO

Tomatoes Momo Onion Cabbage

We briefly summarize the useful links that are available here on my site:

All information on our practical professional courses in our pizza school.

The timing of our courses scheduled

The fantastic “Course Pizzaiolo ONLINE”That you can follow comfortably from your PC or mobile phone during your free time.

Finally my latest recipe book called is available for download: NOT ONLY PIZZA - What should have all the pizzerias in your menu. It is an excellent illustrated book that contains delicacies of Italian cuisine. You can find it here.

Nepalese focaccia

I also end today by reminding you to make a pleasant visit to my youtube channel, you will find yourself further 300 video pizza recipes from which you can take inspiration the next time you prepare pizza at home.

 

See you soon

Silvio Cicchi

 

 

Pizza After Lockdown
Actuality

Pizza After Lockdown

Pizza After Lockdown. It seems that everything is returning to normal. With due precautions masks, social distancing, disinfectant gel, slowly all or almost all the pizzerias are reopening their doors.

Not many international tourists are seen, but we know that pizza is not given up. Even in ours School of Italian pizza professional practical courses are resumed at full capacity.

Pizza After Lockdown
Pizza After Lockdown

Pizza After Lockdown

All those who love pizza and baking know how important it is to attend a course to learnart to prepare pizza.

It seems that after this standstill, requests for professional pizza chefs have also started.

Pizza After Lockdown
Pizza After Lockdown

After the Lockdown the restart

Don't let yourself be unprepared, attend one of ours professional courses, you will receive a certificate valid all over the world.

At this link you'll find information about our professional workshops. Below instead you will find the course calendar scheduled in the coming months.

Pizza and Lockdown

If you missed it, don't miss this opportunity, my latest book called is already available for download: NOT ONLY PIZZA - What should have all the pizzerias in your menu. You will find all the information at this link.

Save our site as a favorite, on our youtube channel you will find further 300 Video recipes of pizza. It will be useful for you next weekend when you decide to prepare pizza for the whole family.

 

Lockdown finished for pizza

We hope to have left this bad period behind, and I wish you to return to normal very soon.

Before leaving, I remind you that if you do not have the resources to come to our school to attend one of our practical professional courses, Here on our site there is a great "ONLINE Pizza Maker Course" You can follow him comfortably seated on the sofa of your home. You will find all the information at this link.

Best regards

Silvio Cicchi

 

A great oven for cooking pizza at home
Advice, Cooking

A great oven for cooking pizza at home

A great oven for cooking pizza at home. Every time we prepare pizza at home we notice that our kitchen oven is not suitable for cooking pizza.

The pizza must be cooked in a very short time, maybe 4 the 5 minutes would be the perfect time for cooking, to prevent it from drying out.

A great oven for cooking pizza at home
A great oven for cooking pizza at home

A great oven for cooking pizza at home

Technology in recent years has come to our aid, in shopping centers and on shop online we often see machines like this. But have you ever wondered if they are suitable for pizza?

A great oven for cooking pizza at home
A great oven for cooking pizza at home

Cook Pizza at Home

And, they are absolutely perfect. They turn out a soft and crunchy product just like that of a wood oven. They arrive at a temperature of approx 400 degrees. Your pizza will be ready in 4 minutes.

A very good oven

If you don't find them in the mall near your home, you can always order them on amazon:

An excellent oven for cooking pizza

If you want to improve your pizza preparation instead, I suggest you to enroll in one of our professional practical courses that take place weekly in our pizza chef school. You will find all the information here.

If you no longer have the resources or precious time to come to our school, I remind you that here on our site a fantastic "Pizzaiolo Online Course" is available for everyone, which you can download to your PC or mobile phone and follow it comfortably seated from the sofa of your home in your spare time. All information on our Online Course will be found at this link.

One last thing before saying goodbye that will surely be useful: my latest book called is already available for download: NOT ONLY PIZZA - What should have all the pizzerias in your menu. Follow this download link.

Follow or subscribe to our youtube channel, there are over 300 pizza recipes, all prepared by the pizza chef students who weekly attend our courses.

 

See you soon

Silvio Cicchi

 

Prepare the potato croquettes
preparation, Recipes, Street Food

Prepare the potato croquettes

Prepare the potato croquettes. One of the classic appetizers that accompany pizza all over the world. It has always been part of the Italian tradition. As tradition wants, the filling must be compact.

The secret lies in choosing a good potato that is floury, so that it can absorb all the other ingredients well.

Prepare the potato croquettes
Prepare the potato croquettes

How to prepare croquettes

Particular attention must be paid during the breading, it is not enough to pass them in the egg and in the breadcrumbs, but it is necessary to pass them in the flour, then in the egg and then in the breadcrumbs.

In this way, once fried they will not open and the filling will not absorb too much oil.

Prepare the potato croquettes
Prepare the potato croquettes

Preparation of the croquettes

Ingredients for 20 croquettes approx

900 grams of potatoes

2 whole eggs

2 yolks

5 spoons of parmesan

Sale

Pepe

nutmeg

Flour

Bread crumbs

Fry oil

Prepare the potato croquettes
Prepare the potato croquettes

Croquettes preparation

Boil the peeled potatoes, scolatele, let them cool down a bit then peel them and mash them with a potato masher.

Let them cool well, add 2 yolks, salt pepper and nutmeg and mix well. Helping you with your hands, take a little dough and shape it into a cylinder shape.

After the preparation, pass the croquettes in the flour, then in the egg and finally in the breadcrumbs. Heat the oil for frying a 180 degrees and fry them. When they are golden, drain them on paper towels.

Prepare the potato croquettes
Prepare the potato croquettes

Prepare the potato croquettes

I recommend ... cooked and eat before the crunchiness vanishes.

If you are a pizza lover, I suggest you to enroll in one of my practical professional courses in my pizza school. You will find all the information at this link.

If, on the other hand, you do not have the time or resources to attend one of our practical professional courses, I remind you that here on my site a fantastic "Pizzaiolo Online Course" is available for everyone that you can follow from the comfort of your home sofa.

If you have not already done, download my latest book called: NOT ONLY PIZZA - What should have all the pizzerias in your menu. You'll find it here.

I will end by giving you an appointment in a few days for other news on the world of pizza and catering, and I invite you to visit my youtube channel where you will find hundreds of video pizza recipes.

 

Ciao

Silvio Cicchi

 

 

How to Prepare the Best Limoncello
Culture, preparation

How to Prepare the Best Limoncello

How to Prepare the Best Limoncello. Here is a very simple recipe tested by me to prepare an excellent one Limoncello. Let's start immediately with the list of ingredients:

Dose to get 2 liters of limoncello.

10 Untreated lemons

1 liter of pure alcohol at 95 °

Sugar 600 grams

Water 1 liter

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How to Prepare the Best Limoncello

As you well know, limoncello is a liqueur of Campania origin, prepared with lemon zest, the alcoholic strength of this liqueur varies between 20% and the 32% vol. Yellow and sweet, obtained by letting the rinds of lemons soak in alcohol. At the end of maceration, the syrup prepared with water and sugar is added.

Once the preparation is finished, it is advisable to let it rest for a month in the bottle. In addition to being drunk as a digestive, it is excellent for the preparation of desserts.

How to Prepare the Best Limoncello
How to Prepare the Best Limoncello

Prepare the Limoncello

Preparation: After washing the lemons thoroughly, peel them with a potato peeler removing only the yellow part of the peel, leaving the white attached to the lemon. Place the lemon zest in a glass jar, cover them with alcohol and let them steep for a week in a dark place.

Take care every day to shake the jar to mix the aromas well. After a week with the help of a strainer, filter the mixture and then prepare the syrup by placing the water and sugar in a saucepan and bring it to a boil. When the sugar has completely melted, let it cool and add it to the liquid flavored with lemon zest.

How to Prepare the Best Limoncello
How to Prepare the Best Limoncello

Limoncello Easy Recipe

At this point fill your bottles and keep them a month before drinking it.

Seen how easy it is? Now let's move on to other equally important things. If you like pizza and want to learn this ancient art, enroll in one of our practical pizza chef courses we organize weekly in our Italian pizza school. You'll find all the information at this link.

How to Prepare the Best Limoncello
How to Prepare the Best Limoncello

How to Prepare the Limoncello Recipe

I remind you that if you do not have time or resources to come to our pizza school to personally attend our professional practical course, here on our website you will find a fantastic "Course of Pizzaiolo Online" that you can follow from the comfort of your home. You'll find it here.

You are lovers of good Italian cuisine? Very well, you can already download my latest book called: NOT ONLY PIZZA - What should have all the pizzerias in your menu. All information at this link.

Have you ever visited my youtube channel? They are available beyond 300 Video recipes of pizza. You'll find it here.

 

See you soon

Silvio Cicchi

 

 

Eggs In The Refrigerator Or Not
Advice

Eggs In The Refrigerator Or Not

Eggs In The Refrigerator Or Not. Anyone who has taken a vacation to the United States will have noticed that eggs in supermarkets are strictly kept in the fridge. Have you ever wondered why? They are perhaps different from European eggs which are always kept out of the fridge?

The differences in how they are preserved is actually a different approach to combat the risk of infection salmonella.

Eggs In The Refrigerator Or Not
Eggs In The Refrigerator Or Not

Eggs In The Refrigerator Or Not

We are all aware that eggs are at a high risk of salmonella for consumers, the bacterium may be present on the surface of the egg and sometimes even inside as a result of contamination with the infected feces of laying hens.

In the USA, eggs are subjected to a cleaning and disinfection procedure before being put on the market. This process is very effective in reducing possible surface contamination of the shell, but nothing can against any pathogens present inside the egg.

Eggs In The Refrigerator Or Not
Eggs In The Refrigerator Or Not

Why Eggs In The Refrigerator

This process causes problems with the permeability of the egg shell, and to avoid bacteria proliferation, immediate refrigeration is required.

After the egg is refrigerated, the cold chain must never be interrupted. And in Europe? On the contrary, eggs are marketed without any treatment, giving priority to good hygiene practices during the harvest.

Eggs In The Refrigerator Or Not
Eggs In The Refrigerator Or Not

Correct Eggs In The Refrigerator

In Europe we follow the logic that leaving the shell intact, contributes to reducing the risk of any pathogens entering it. That's why it is expected to be marketed at room temperature.

Not being sterile, at home it is good to put them in the fridge to keep bacteria under control. In addition, it is always advisable to keep the eggs in their sales carton at the top of the fridge shelves, here the temperature is not subject to changes, which happens frequently if we put them on the fridge door, right where we find the egg holder, it is known that by opening and closing the fridge door many times a day the temperature could vary causing humidity on the shell and therefore a proliferation of bacteria.

Eggs In The Fridge Not To Risk

Even today we arrived to greetings, but before I left you I wanted to remind you of some of the useful links that you can find here on my site:

The practical professional courses that you will find weekly in our pizza school.

The calendar of the next practical courses programming

For all those who do not have the time or resources to come personally to our school, remember that on our site there is an Excellent Online Pizza Maker Course. You will find all the information following this link.

Finally you can download my latest book is called: NOT ONLY PIZZA _ What all pizzerias should have on their menu. You'll find it here.

If you are a pizza lover, I invite you to visit my Youtube channel, you will find hundreds of video recipes for pizza, all prepared by the students who attend our pizza chef courses.

 

See you soon

Silvio Cicchi

 

 

Actuality

Pizza Hut The End Of American Pizza

Pizza Hut The End Of American Pizza. Sixty years of history e 18 thousand restaurants in more than one hundred countries in the world had to close due to the corona virus.

It is the end of an American dream that begins in 1958 when two brothers Dan and Frank Carney asked on loan 600 dollars to his mother to open a small pizza shop in Wichita in the state of Kansas

Pizza Hut The End Of The American Colossus

They are the inventors of "home deliveries". Already in 1977 possessed 4 thousand restaurants, then they sold everything to the big brand PEPSI & Co.

The last advertising leap dates back to two years ago, when they sponsored the NFL championship, which turns out to be the most popular football championship in America.

Pizza Hut The End Of American Pizza Eaten By Covid

Then the end, he amassed over a billion dollars in debt until the covid took the coup de grace.

And to think that in Italy, the country of pizza, Pizza Hut has never had a large market share. We are a traditionalist people, especially with regards to food, then the high and spongy pizza does not like the Italians.

Pizza Hut The End Of American Pizza Full Of Debts

How will I do now? Without any malice towards this group, that to tell the truth I've always been nice, I have always used Pizza Hut as an example in my "School of Pizza Makers" to explain to my pupils how they shouldn't have made pizza to survive in our country.

Pizza Hut The End Of American Pizza Unfortunately Has Closed

So we end this parenthesis. Before saying goodbye, I wanted to remind you of some of the utility links that you can find here on my site:

Our professional practical courses that we do weekly in our school.

The calendar of upcoming courses in programming.

For all those who do not have the necessary time or resources, remember that an excellent "Online Pizza Maker Course" is available on our website. You will find all the information at this link.

I end by reminding you that it is already possible to download my latest book called: NOT ONLY PIZZA - What should have all the pizzerias in your menu. You will find it at this link.

If you are a pizza lover I invite you to visit my Youtube channel where you will find hundreds of pizza recipes.

 

See you soon

Silvio Cicchi

 

 

Culture, Recipes

Carbonara Pizza How To Prepare It

Carbonara Pizza How To Prepare It. When we talk about Carbonara in Italy it is obvious that we are talking about spaghetti carbonara. This is not the case in the whole world. I'm going back right now from a holiday in Spain, in addition to being a beautiful historic country, boasts of a wonderful tradition culinary.

Among the many very original things that I found in the various menu proposals, there is one that impressed me in particular: The Pizza Carbonara. I found it in all the menus of the pizzerias I visited.

Carbonara Pizza How To Prepare It

Carbonara Pizza Here's How To Prepare It

I could not resist and I immediately wanted to taste it. Excellent, my judgment absolutely deserves a 5 stars. We shouldn't expect the classic carbonara taste, but even if combined with a pizza base with tomato and mozzarella, it is not not bad.

The bacon cut into thin slices and with the addition of a raw egg in the center cooked totally in the oven makes it a not bad combination. Try to prepare it yourself at your home next weekend.

Carbonara Pizza How To Prepare It

Carbonara Pizza How to prepare it at home

Below is the video of the simple preparation of this delicious pizza.

VIDEO

Carbonara Pizza How To Prepare It Quickly

You like it the art of pizza? Subscribe to one of our Professional workshops which we hold weekly in our school. You will find all the information about ours practical courses at this link.

You will find below the calendar of our weekly courses. Follow this link.

It is already possible to download my latest book called: NOT ONLY PIZZA - What should have all the pizzerias in your menu. You'll find it here.

If, on the other hand, you don't currently have the resources to come personally to our pizza school, there is a valid solution to solve your problem: On our website a fantastic "Pizzaiolo Online Course”. You can download it to your PC or mobile phone and access it comfortably seated from the sofa of your home. You will find it at this link.

If you are a pizza lover, you might like to visit and sign up for my Youtube channel. You will find many pizza recipes to prepare at home.

 

I just have to say goodbye and give you an appointment for the next pizza recipe.

Ciao

Silvio Cicchi

 

Recipes, Street Food

Savory Stuffed Rustic Pizza Muffins

Savory Stuffed Rustic Pizza Muffins. It is an excellent alternative in a pizzeria for parties and birthdays to the classics rustic prepared with puff pastry. They don't have sugar among their ingredients.

With Ham and Mushrooms, Boscaiola, with vegetables, zucchini and provola, peas and ham, Ham and cheese, and in a thousand other ways.

Savory Stuffed Rustic Pizza Muffins

Stuffed Rustic Pizza Muffins

During our Practical Professional Courses in our school pizza, I always explain to my students all the useful preparations for buffets, aperitifs and birthdays. Muffins prepared with pizza dough are part of the program among many other things.

Try to prepare them at home too, they are very simple, it is sufficient to have the appropriate mold, the same one used for sweet muffins.

Savory Rustic Pizza Muffins

You would like to learn the art of pizza? Subscribe to one of our professional practical courses. Find all the information at this link.

Here instead you will find the calendar of our practical courses in programming for the coming months. You can find it at this link.

Savory Stuffed Rustic Pizza Muffins

Salty Stuffed Pizza Muffin

If you don't have the resources or time to come to our school, I remind you that here on our website there is a super fantastic "Pizzaiolo Online Course", is very simple, complete and suitable for everyone, you can follow him from your home comfortably sitting on the sofa when you have free time. You'll find it here.

If, on the other hand, you are already an expert pizza chef, you will definitely like my latest book called: NOT ONLY PIZZA - What should have all the pizzerias in your menu. Lots of recipes and photos of real monuments of Italian cuisine. For more information follow this link.

Savory Stuffed Rustic Pizza Muffins

Savory Stuffed Rustic Muffins

You have already enrolled in our Free Online Pizza Maker Course? Why not, it's free. For more information and registration follow this link.

I also end today by reminding you to visit our Youtube channel where you will find hundreds of video pizza recipes all prepared by the students who weekly attend our courses.

 

See you soon

Silvio Cicchi

 

 

Recipes

A Focaccia With Pumpkin Flour

A Focaccia With Pumpkin Flour. To celebrate Halloween today we prepared a focaccia with pumpkin flour. We prepared a dough with a flour base type "0" to which we added a 20% of pumpkin flour.

A Focaccia With Pumpkin Flour

A Focaccia With Pumpkin Flour

 

A Focaccia With Pumpkin Flour

A Focaccia With Pumpkin Flour

 

 

VIDEO

Margherita with pumpkin flour

VIDEO

Focaccia with Pumpkin Flour

In the practical professional courses we do in our pizza school, every day we prepare dough with different flours. Find out more about ours professional courses click here.

Discover the "Professional Online Course" You will find it at this link.

My latest book called is available for download: NOT ONLY PIZZA - What should have all the pizzerias in your menu. Get it here.

Visit our Youtube channel, you'll find hundreds of video recipes for pizza.

 

See you soon

Silvio Cicchi