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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.

Recipes, dessert pizza recipes

Apple Pie with Pizza Dough

9 June 2015 silviocicchi

The Apple pie with dough for pizza is very good and tasty. Halfway between sweet and savory cake made with this dough that we usually use to make pizza, It is also commonly called “apple cake”.
The apple cake, in this recipe it is made with the classic dough for homemade pizza, apples thinly sliced, two tablespoons of brown sugar to form a dough somewhere between sweet and salty. Focaccia with apples can be enriched with many other ingredients and seasoned to your liking. E’ delicious with strawberries, peaches, berries, with jam or with delicious Nutella. I have prepared for the snack, but it is also delicious served at breakfast.

Apple Pie with Pizza Dough

For ingredients and doses, see our previous post: Pizza dough.

Apple Pie with Pizza Dough

Let the mixture stand until doubled in volume, about an hour.

Peel the apples and cut into cubes or prefer disc.

Arrange the apples on the entire surface of the pizza, brush with melted butter and add brown sugar sprinkled on the surface.
Let it sit for another hour.
Bake in an oven pre-heated to 200 degrees for 20 minutes until the board will be perfectly golden. The scent of apples surrounds you and you will understand that the cake of apples ready.
You never prepared the Apple Pie with Pizza Dough? Leave your comment or your recipe in the comments.
If you want to learn more about apples, consultation wikipedia.

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Advice, preparation

Tools To Make Pizza House

6 June 2015 silviocicchi 1 comment

In recent years, home baking has taken hold in many Italian families. The homemade pizza is now available to everyone. Unlike some years ago, when it was more difficult to find good ingredients to make a good pizza at home, today you can find on the shelves of supermarkets any product, so with some simple trick we can cook at home a good pizza as that of pizzerias.

Tools To Make Pizza House

To facilitate the task of preparation of the pizza, mix seasonings and cooking, here's a list of stuff that everyone should have at home.
Baking sheet blue steel 30 x 40 cm, E’ the classic pan used to cook all the pizza for pizza, and these are the standard sizes of the furnaces of home.

Refractory stone for direct cooking of bread and pizza in the oven. It is preheated in the oven and ensures even cooking and perfect.

Wooden shovel to bake pizzas, made with a suitable timber and smooth to make the operation of bake the pizzas much simpler.

Thermometer probe. This very useful tool in the kitchen is used to measure the temperature of the dough for a careful control in the management of the dough in the refrigerator at home.

Pliers to churn out trays of pizza. Allow us to ease handling trays of pizza in the oven.

Boxes of rising pizza. Measures 60 x 40 cm, white, indispensable at home and in the pizzeria when we prepare the dough and leave it to leaven.

Chopping wood for pizza and the wheel to cut into wedges your pizzas.

Monopizza oven for cooking perfect as that of the pizzeria.

Last but not least important, are the raw materials. Always use quality flour, fresh yeast, a good tomato sauce and mozzarella pizza.
I have a feeling, however, to be able to give advice: in life and at work are essential equipment sacrifices and willingness; but they must be accompanied by passion. Leave your comment on this page.
If you want to learn more about the equipment pizzeria consults wikipedia.

Tools To Make Pizza House

Advice, Yeast, preparation

Yeast and How to Keep it how to prepare

5 June 2015 silviocicchi 2 comments

The sourdough or if you prefer to call it sourdough or if you follow the trend will call definitely sourdough, It is very simple to make at home and very satisfactory results.
It is often used for dough with long proofing, 24-48 hours, dough to be kept in the refrigerator.
If you are one of those who makes the pizza at home once a week and does not have much time to advise you not to take even consider the idea of producing your staff to use yeast to the dough for pizza.
La pizza fatta in casa, indeed, because of the short time we have available is mixed and barely leavened is leveled and fired within a few hours. To get quick results, it is advisable to use the classic yeast.
For anyone in the house often panificano, Firing sweets, croissants, donuts and panettone, It is how to prepare yourself a great sourdough.

Yeast and How to Keep it how to prepare

The dough is alive, therefore it should be treated and go “refreshed weekly with new flour and water.
Ingredients:
200 gr flour 0
100 ml water
1 teaspoon of honey
Procedure:
Mix these ingredients with a spoon until a smooth ball and homogeneous.
Let rise in a bowl covered with a cloth 48 hours
If you spend 48 take hours 200 gr of compound and mixed with:
200 gr flour 0
100 ml water
This second method is called "refreshing" which means food sourdough with new water and new flour. Once completed this second dough you can leave a few hours in a glass jar at room temperature for starts rising and then put it in the fridge.

Yeast and How to Keep it how to prepare

Once you make the dough, every 5/7 days, It is powered according to this proportion: it weighs 200g must be added 200 grams of flour and new 100 ml of new water.
After a few weeks and 4-5 refreshments will finally test your sourdough preparing at home maybe bread or similar. Nothing pizza for the moment, the yeast would not be strong enough to react quickly so sfornereste bad pizza.
Leave your comment about this article.
To explore this topic, you can consult our previous article:”sourdough or yeast dough for pizza”
If you want to know more about different types of yeast, read our post: “Types of yeast”
If you want to know more about yeast, consultation wikipedia

Actuality

Restaurant Pizzeria Casa Activities Profitable

4 June 2015 silviocicchi Leave a comment

Open a restaurant or why not? a pizzeria in their own home is a trend that is taking more and more foot in Italy, in large cities such as Rome, Milan turin or if there are more than 300 and strong growth, even on the period of crisis we are going through.
It is now 4 the 5 years from the first time I heard of this type of activity. Common people who decided to prepare dinners at home for any guests booked, that at the end of dinner regularly paid a fee for the service received. I always wondered: How strange, restaurateurs and owners of pizzerias to open a club must comply with strict rules and pay taxes cream, how is it that an individual might do so freely?

Profitable pizza restaurant Casa Activities

Finally after a few years, It received a law of the Ministry of Economic Development that puts an end to all this confusion and lack of regulation:
“The Restaurant Casa is considered ACTIVITIES’ ECONOMIC fledged!!!
The resolution says the Mise: Open a restaurant in his home is in an economic activity All checked effects. Must be subject to professional requirements, sanitary and a set of rules in matters of security, urban planning and construction. starting with Scia to be presented to the municipality of residence.
The recent resolution of the Ministry of Economic Development also clarifies how can configure activity cook at home from word of mouth that has come to emerge in a real business, that alarmed even the category of Professional caterers that looking at the phenomenon with concern, They asked that the rules.

Restaurant Pizzeria Casa Activities Profitable

The activity of preparing and serving lunches and dinners at his home , in days dedicated to paying guests, “that can not be classified as an activity of administration of foods and drinks, because even if the products are prepared and served in private premises coincide with the home cook, they are still equipped premises open to customers”, It reads the opinion of the Mise through Gianfrancesco Old, general director of the Directorate General for the Market and competition that responds to a request for a Chamber of Commerce. The provision of these services “It involves the payment of a fee and, therefore also with the innovative mode”, activity “It is expressed as economic activity in the strict sense” consequently it can not be considered, Getting a parere del, “a free activity and therefore not amenable to some provision of law from those applicable to persons who are engaged in the administration of food and beverages”. In motivating the position taken, Gianfrancesco Old refers to a footnote, always your firm, with which it has been classified as an actual administration of the public of foods and drinks that made by the owner of a villa, that “He intended to prepare food and drink in your kitchen providing this service only on specific request and booking by a client and then only for the eventual invited”.
The site Ministry of Economic Development

Advice, Dough, Ingredients

Flour Manitoba Use and Ownership

3 June 2015 silviocicchi 2 comments

Manitoba flour. Flour Manitoba comes from the regions of North America and Canada, in the lands that once belonged to the tribes of Indians. It is a strong flour, that contains a large percentage of protein (until the 18%) and it has a remarkable ability to absorb water (up to 80% of its weight). It is used to increase the strength of flour generally, especially to produce specialty breads and pizza.E’ a wheat flour (Tricia summer) semi-hard, famous for its high content of glutenin and gliadin, substances which upon contact with water, giving origin to gluten, a protein that during the leavening process traps the gas and allowing the “growth” the mixes forming the typical bubbles that are the structure of the bread, pizza and all leavened products.

Flour Manitoba Use and Ownership

Each type of flour contains gluten, and when it is mixed with the water it acquires a certain level of force (The) and it is this feature that distinguishes the different flours and ranges from <90W up to a 370W.

Flour Manitoba Use and Ownership

Flour Manitoba is perfect as a base for sweet pastry long rising high in fat as panettone, PANDORI, dove, while the weaker flours which possess a smaller amount of gluten is sgonfierebbero under the weight of the fat content.
The Manitoba flour is used exclusively in the form 00 that is a very fine grind, it favors the digestion and absorption, but everything at the expense of the glycemic and insulin.
Contrary to what you may think, then, not the Manitoba flour to make you fat, but are foods for which is used: Panettone, PANDORI, donuts, dove, growing.
Flour Manitoba Uses and properties in the dough for pizza.
The flour Manitoba, usually it is mixed to weaker flours when making dough long rising(24-48 hours) with very little yeast, which results in a pizza digestible, soft and crispy at the same time.

Radishes Delicious Vegetable by Beneficial properties

2 June 2015 silviocicchi Leave a comment

Radishes. In our country there are wide varieties of vegetables, especially during the spring and summer. The radishes are one of them, it is now possible to find it on our tables at all times of the year. Are real and valuable allies in our body.

Vegetables are low-calorie but rich in nutrients, These tubers are rich in vitamin c and b, magnesium and iron.
These vegetables have colored the outside and the inside white have a purifying effect on the whole organism, improve the digestion of fat and promote diuresis. They are also an excellent natural remedy for those with digestive problems.
They are also commonly called by the name of radishes.
Lately, They have discovered that a real cure for anxiety because they contain some B vitamins, with relaxing effects that promote sleep.

Radishes Delicious Vegetable by Beneficial properties

How are consumed
Not to alter the properties of radish, it is good to consume it raw in salads. If your taste is too bitter, you can create the pits on the bulb and leave them for a time to soak in salt water before eating.
Even the leaves are delicious steamed or boiled like spinach can be eaten seasoned with olive oil and salt and lemon.
E’ very easy to grow, and for those who follow the trend of the garden on the balcony, It is the perfect vegetable to plant, since it does not need special care.
Unlike other European countries, in Italy we are used to eat radishes raw in salads or in vinaigrette, but I invite you to taste the leaves, that they are delicious in omelets and soups hot and cold. Simply test with the potatoes.

Radishes Delicious Vegetable by Beneficial properties

The radishes and pizza. Boil the leaves of radish, rifatele in skillet with diced boiled potatoes with extra virgin olive oil , a clove of garlic and a pinch of salt and add them to a pizza with mozzarella, you will get a perfect match.
You have to propose some recipes with radishes to prepare at home? Leave it in the comments section of this page, our readers will thank you.
If you want to know more about Ravanelli, please visit wikipedia clicking this link.

Recipes

Bismark Tasty Pizza Recipe

1 June 2015 silviocicchi

Pizza Bismark. In the present day. It is called “alla Bismark” any dish, pizza or other food that provides coverage with fried eggs. But who was this Bismarck?
Bismark was the Iron Chancellor who adored eggs. I also ate 12 at a time, to him it is attributed the saying saying: “those who work a lot, It must eat well and wash it all”.

Dominated the political life of Europe for about 30 years until 1890, wine lover, beer and champagne.
Contrary to its name this dish, this type of recipe is not part of the traditional cuisine of Germany, but it dates back to the Triple Alliance (1882) between Italy, Austria and Germany.
The pizza they immediately borrowed this recipe, adapting to the various toppings on pizza.
There are many types of Bismark pizza, I mention only a few of the most famous:
Bismark pizza with asparagus and eggs, bismark pizza with bacon, onion and eggs. They are certainly not part of the class “light”, but they are also required to meet the tastes and palates and strong smoking.

Bismark Tasty Pizza Recipe

We come to the preparation of this yummy pizza:
We will use the classic dough for pizza and those less experienced, can see our previous post: Dough for homemade pizza.
After the mixing phase, dividetelo in 4 parts and formed four balls, deposit them in a container with a lid and let it rest for about an hour for the rising.

Bismark Tasty Pizza Recipe

Completed the leavening phase, roll out the balls of dough to form 4 discs of dough by the diameter of 30 centimeters.
Pour the tomato based, add a generous layer of mozzarella, a few slices of bacon and bake in your oven previously heated to a temperature of 200/250 degrees. The cooking time can vary from oven to oven, but keep in check the browning of the edge of your pizzas, when it begins to brown, add the egg to the center of your pizzas and put them back in the oven for a few more minutes. The egg will only take a few minutes to finish cooking.
A great red wine is the perfect match for this pizza.
Did you already know this pizza? how do you make pizza Bismark at your house? leave us your recipe in the comments on this page.
If you want to know more about Chancellor Otto Von Bismark, consultation wikipedia.

Recipes

Pulcinella Pizza Recipe and Traditions

31 May 2015 silviocicchi 1 comment

Pulcinella Pizza Recipe and Traditions. Pulcinella is a symbol of the masks of the carnival tradition Napoletano. From the second half of 500, and its origins are still in discussion, the assumptions are different, some say that its name comes from a small chick given the similarity of the hooked nose, others associate it with Puccio d'Aniello, buffoon of a note the company of wandering period.

A servant long-nosed, bitorzuta faced with big cheeks, prominent belly wearing a long shirt, large, white.

There is a delicious pizza in the Neapolitan tradition associated with this character, called "Pizza Pulcinella".

Pulcinella Pizza Recipe and Traditions

The pizza is prepared with Pulcinella cottage cheese and pepper, but many pizza makers who over the years have changed the original recipe by adding the cherry tomatoes and olives combined with the cottage cheese are delicious.

Pepper is one of the most common spices today, It has many properties, is an anti-inflammatory, antiseptic, diuretic, It stimulates appetite, aids digestion and is a great help for those suffering from respiratory problems, anemia and diabetes.

Pulcinella Pizza Recipe and Traditions

Very easy to prepare, This pizza is highly effective for the combination of flavors, the delicate ricotta, spicy and aggressive that of pepper.

To prepare the classic pizza, you can follow the advice of this our previous article.

After leaving to rest the dough for leavening, roll out the disks of dough, spread on a thick layer of cottage cheese, season with pepper, extra virgin olive oil, salt and a few leaves of fresh basil.

puffins pizza cheese — Preparation of pizza with cheese puffin, olives and tomatoes.

Bake in oven previously heated to a temperature of 200/250 degrees for 15 minutes and when the board will prove to be golden to perfection, baked your pizza puffins and serve piping hot.

You knew the pizza Pulcinella? Leave a comment on this page.

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Actuality

HACCP certificate

28 May 2015 silviocicchi Leave a comment

HACCP certificate. Are many professions today have to do with food. Indeed This area contains a series of activities that follow the entire production, from cultivation to the administration. We speak therefore of farmers, workers in the food industry, confectioners, bartenders, cooks. But not only, Also unexpected categories, as pharmacists and drivers.

All these workers, in one way or another come into contact with food and must therefore know the basic rules of hygiene and food safety. In this case the European regulations and therefore also the Italian, require knowledge of sistema HACCP. Born to ensure food safety for astronauts NASA has since been adopted in many countries, thanks to its proven effectiveness.
To know and apply the rules of HACCP must study them, that is why the law requires that anyone working in the food industry to take a course and obtain the HACCP certificate which proves passing the final test.

HACCP certificate

The HACCP certificate is proof that we have the necessary knowledge about the main rules of hygiene and safety, we know the rules and the application of HACCP, that we have the basics of microbiology and food preservation, and we know how to sanitize a facility and equipment. In short, the certificate serves to prove that we can protect the health of those who come into contact with food that we worked or handled.

Of course this knowledge have different degrees, the manager of the food industry must:
identify all critical points (CCP) the various activities and identify, apply and update safety procedures (based on HACCP principles). Its task is thus of responsibility, that requires a deep understanding of the issues. Instead, for example, the chap who does not manipulate foods must have general knowledge, because his contact with food is never direct, so much so that before the law did not provide even the possession of health card for this category.

Currently the law requires the possession of the mandatory HACCP, without which it is allowed to work in the food industry, so that in all cases it is required as a prerequisite when hiring.

Recipes

Pizza Mozzarella and Spinach Recipe

27 May 2015 silviocicchi Leave a comment

Spinach Pizza. Over the years "90" pizzas on the menu of pizza they had fancy names,They were often called with names of famous actors, with city names or names borrowed from comics fashionable at the time: Goldrake, Mazzinghi etc..

One of the most famous pizzas that time literally attracted all the children who were preparing to order pizza at a table, It was the pizza "Popeye". Who does not remember the sailor that whenever he was in trouble, He pulled out a can of spinach and gained strength. Parents pushing small to order pizza standoff saying ...... "if you eat it you will become strong like him!!”

Present Day, tug of war has disappeared from TV, only those who have a few more years remembers this character, then the pizza standoff has once again become a common pizza spinach.

Spinach and Mozzarella Pizza Preparation.

Spinach as a sauce for pizza, They are blanched and redone in a pan with oil, salt and a clove of garlic.

For the pizza dough spinach, We prepare the same dough standard for all our pizzas, which you can see by clicking on this link: Dough for homemade pizza.

Once the mixing phase, dividetelo in 4 balls, cover with a cloth and let it rest for an hour or until the volume will not be doubled.

Spinach and Mozzarella Pizza Preparation

The drafting of the balls. With the help of a rolling pin, or using the fingertips roll out the balls to form 4 discs of dough by the diameter of 30 centimeters.

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Let's go back to our pizza spinach, add pizza on a generous layer of mozzarella and pour the spinach previously sautéed, on the surface.

At this point, We bake our pizzas in the oven of our house. I remind you that the oven should be heated to a temperature of 200/250 degrees before baking pizzas.

The cooking time of this pizza, It may vary depending on the type of furnace used, 10 the 15 minutes maximum, not to make mistakes, check the edge of the pizza and sfornatela only when it is perfectly golden.

Serve piping hot and accompanied by a dry white.

New to tussle? Take a look at wikipedia.

We would like to know your personal pizza recipe spinach, leave your comment on this page.

Apple Pie with Pizza Dough

Apple Pie with Pizza Dough

Tools To Make Pizza House

Tools To Make Pizza House

Yeast and How to Keep it how to prepare

Yeast and How to Keep it how to prepare

Profitable pizza restaurant Casa Activities

Restaurant Pizzeria Casa Activities Profitable

Flour Manitoba Use and Ownership

Flour Manitoba Use and Ownership

Radishes Delicious Vegetable by Beneficial properties

Radishes Delicious Vegetable by Beneficial properties

Bismark Tasty Pizza Recipe

Bismark Tasty Pizza Recipe

Pulcinella Pizza Recipe and Traditions

Pulcinella Pizza Recipe and Traditions

HACCP certificate

Spinach and Mozzarella Pizza Preparation.

Spinach and Mozzarella Pizza Preparation

Executive chef pizza