This year the Christmas or New Year's lunch table is decorated with fruit!
He is about to end up run over, his mother saves himThe smell of mandarin is inevitably reminiscent of the Christmas and the peel the bingo. But the little bits of citrus aren't just used to blacken the boxes. Martine Camilleri, thought well of give fruit and vegetables a second life transforming them into objects with a new use. Simple ideas but of sure usefulness that can be an extra novelty for set the table on Christmas day or the New Year's Eve.
Here then is that the cabbage leaves they become dishes to spread out dishes, or the peels of clementines become egg cups and the radicchio leaves they turn into spoons for winter soups.
Everything is seen in a perspective of reuse e once dinner is over, you can choose two ways: if you are still not full enough, eat plates and glasses, otherwise, before throwing the "utensils" into the dustbin (obviously in the Organic waste), transform them into imaginative centerpieces.
Tomato peels, artichoke or leek leaves and a wilted pineapple head can become an original and colorful decoration. While a courgette can be the tip of a small one Christmas tree, radishes turned into stars for decorate the tree, a red pepper, a poinsettia and the orange and lemon peels of the flames that warm the festive atmosphere. Advice not only to follow but also to carry out provided by Claudio Meniconi, decorator chef who transforms vegetables in the direction of the dustbin into real innovative sculptures.
But Christmas is not Christmas if there aren't any in the center of the table Candles natural, star-shaped, tree, red, golden or recycled (read the article about do-it-yourself candles by recycling the used ones). Little ideas to make our table special and ecological. Because this year at Christmas we are not only broke but we are also green.
Silvia Napoli
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