Tiramisù

Tiramisù is the one of the most famous Italian cake, and the most common dessert that Italian people eat at the restaurant after the meal. class- mate invited us in Sicily to spend the holiday.
During this holiday she celebrated her birthday
This summer our classmate invited us to spend our holiday in Sicily.
During this holiday she celebrated her birthday, so for this occasion we cooked a traditional cake for her: Tiramisù. Celebrating together that special day for our friend was really beautiful: we had a lot of fun and we talked about different traditional cakes in our countries.
When we have finished to eat the cake she told us that the peculiarity of this cake is that she used to prepare this cake with her mother, but now her mother has gone. That’s why this cake means a lot to her: when we were celebrating her birthday she was very happy and she was thinking that her mother was there to celebrate her birthday too.
She said that it was the best gift that she has ever received and she will always remember this day because we prepared Tiramisù with love and affection for her 18th birthday.

INGREDIENTS

400 g of biscuits ladyfinger
250 g mascarpone cheese
250 g fresh cream
12 cups of coffee
3 eggs yolks
2 cups of milk
3 tablespoons of sugar
Bitter cocoa

PREPARATION

 

Put the sugar and the eggs yolks in a large bowl. 

Beat well until the mixtures is light and creamy

Add mascarpone cheese and beat well

Beat the eggs white until stiff and add them in the mascarpone cream.

Mix gently. 

Quick dip each ladyfinger biscuit in the mixture until they are nicely soaked. 

Cover with the remaining biscuits and spread over the remaining cream.

Dust with the cocoa.

Chill in the fridge for 4-5 hours or better overnight.

GLOSSARY
Ladyfinger biscuits: they are low density, dry, egg-based and sweet biscuits roughly shaped like a large finger
Mascarpone cheese: it is a cream obtained from cheese by the addition of certain substances such as lemon juice
Cream: the fatty part of milk, which rises to the surface when the liquid is allowed to stand unless homogenized
Coffee: a dark brown powder with a strong flavor and smell that is made by crushing coffee beans
Eggs yolk: the yellow part of an egg
Milk: this liquid is used by humans for food or as a source for butter, cheeses, yogurt
Sugar: a sweet substance especially from the plants sugar cane and sugar beet, used to make food and drinks sweeter
Cocoa: a powder made from roasted seeds of the cacao

ALBANIAN BAKLLAVA

Albanian Team

Bakllava is the Middle Eastern dessert par excellence, but it’s also part of Balkan traditions.
We chose this sweet because it is good, it is often cooked for religious parties.One day, a Ramadam’s day, my friends Abdyl, Adrian and I went to have lunch at an Albanian’s post which makes pizzas, kebabs and other traditional things from Albania. After eating, we decided to take a slice of bakllava, and we really liked it, for this reason we decided to choose this sweet, also because it is a traditional dessert in Albania.
The Baklava is a layered sweet of thin phyllo dough, just like leaves or sheets of paper, grated and leaned in a pan: chopped nuts
together with pistachios, are scattered over the various layers, which are then rolled and baked in the oven before being soaked with a solution of sugar and lemon juice or honey and spices with water.

Ingredients

- 500 gr phyllo dough
- 200 gr chopped nuts
- 150 gr crushed pistachios

- cinnamon powder
- 180 gr melted butter

Ingredients for the syrup
- 50 gr honey
- 450 gr sugar
- 300 ml water
- 2 tablespoons lemon juice

Preparation
1-Prepare the syrup making it melt on the fire with water, honey and lemon juice. After a few minutes of cooking you will see that it becomes dense: take it out of the fire and cool it in the fridge.

2-Divide the dough into at least 12 parts and roll with the help of a rolling pin so that you get 12 thin sheets that you will lay in a rectangular.

3-Paint the first pie with melted butter and lay on top of another 5 sheets that will squeeze each with butter. On these first 6 layers sprinkle the crushed nuts and pistachios not too big; finish with powdered cinnamon powder. Cover everything with the other 6 sheets that will be scrubbed each, including the surface of the last, with the remaining butter.

4-Take a knife and cut the dough until it touches the bottom of the pan, diagonally in both directions to get rhombuses.

5-Bake at 180º for about 40 minutes until the dough is cooked well and is golden.

6-Take the baklava from the oven and pour over it the hot syrup.

GLOSSARY
phyllo dough: pasta of Greek origin made from flour, water, corn starch and sale, made of thin layers, of a consistency similar to that of a leaf, used in the kitchen for sweet and salty preparations.
syrup: a solution of sugar dissolved in water and often flavoured with fruit juice. It is used for sweetening fruit, etc.
cinnamon powder: a sweet-smelling spice made from the inner bark of Asian trees.

See you again

“See You Again” is a song by US rapper Wiz Khalifa featuring Charlie Puth, published in 2015. The song is the final soundtrack of the movie “Fast & Furious 7”.

Fast & Furious 7 was published in 2015 and is the penultimate of a series of action movies produced in USA, in which the most important elements are racing cars.

The author of the song, Cameron Jibril Thomaz (stage name Wiz Khalifa), was born on 8 September 1987 in Minot (North Dakota) and he is specialized in pop/rap songs.

The song holds the record for the highest rating, exceeding three billions views. It received some awards as the best song in 2015 at the “Hollywood Film Festival” and in 2016 at the “Golden Globe”.

It was written as a tribute to the actor Paul Walker, who died in a car accident in November 2013.

The song is played in the final scene of the film, in which the protagonists Brian (Paul Walker) and Toretto (Vin Diesel) run on two different streets on their own cars representing Brian’s farewell.

The lyrics of the song is about the death of a dear friend, and it gives strength to face the problems of life, giving hope to meet again ...

"It was a long day without you my friend, and I'll tell you everything when I see you again"

We have chosen this phrase, taken from the lyrics of the song, because it makes us realize that we need to give importance to close people because they could leave us at any time.

GLOSSARY
Featuring: collaboration between two singers
Publish: when a film or a book comes out
Soundtrack: song as background music in a film
Action Movie: movie with many thrilling scenes
Stage Name: an unreal name used by famous characters
Rap/Pop: music genre from the street, freestyle-based
Exceeding: verb synonymous to overcome
Views: number of person that see the video
Award: trophy got in a competition
Tribute: an action made in honor of a person
Car accident: car crash
Farewell: last goodbye
Split: when people take different way
Strength: quality of strong person

Mattoncini cake

Why the name “Mattoncini”? The cake we propose is made of various icing layers and biscuits: looking at this cake makes you think of the bricks that build a house and when you cuts a slice…well, the similarity stands out!
The last days of summer are over and you can see new autumn colours. It’s the best time to say goodbye to a beautiful season. We are going to propose you a great way to say goodbye to the best time of the year and to our favourite season: let’s prepare a tasty cake! You could enjoy this dessert with your friends and family. It is hard to resist the temptation of a sweet, especially if it is homemade! In fact I remember that when I came to come over my grandparents, the first thing at once I've seen at once was this beautiful cake that reminded me of my childhood.

Preparation time: 30/35 minutes

Recipe for 6 people

- a pack of biscuits.
- 125g whipping cream
- 125g cream.
- 50g cocoa powder.
- half a cup of milk.
- chocolate bar.


Step 1
For the icing, mix the whipping cream and a half cup of milk in a pan and fry so that it becomes creamy, follow the same procedure in another container by adding half a cup of cocoa powder.

Step 2
Place the biscuits in the cooking tray then spread on them one of the glaze to your liking. For the second layer of cake, dunk the cookies in the milk, then put them in the baking tray together with the glaze.

Step 3
Continue until you reach enough layers, then finish decorating the cake with some bars of chocolate.

Glossary
Among: within, amidst (eg. Their music’s popular among college students)
Clear: eg. He poured water into a clear glass
Layers: overlay, tier, coating, encrustation (eg. The chef layered the chocolate frosting of the cake)
Baking tray: tin, container for biscuits, etc.
Icing: frost, frosting, ice, icing the puck, etc (eg. to pipe icing onto a cake)
Dunk: to dip, to plunge (eg. I dunk the cookies in the milk)

Lose yourself

China Clan

“Lose yourself” is a song that speaks of Marshall Bruce Mathers III’s life, better known as Slim Shady or with his most popular name: Eminem. “Lose yourself” was published on 28 October 2002; for that song Eminem was awarded the Oscar for Best Song in 2003 and the Golden Disk in Denmark, Finland, France, Germany and Greece, while the Platinum Disk in Australia, Austria, Belgium, Italy, Japan, Norway, USA, UK, Sweden and Switzerland. This song speaks of Eminem’s life in his neighborhood and 8Mile, a disastrous street in Detroit that divides the white quarter from the black one. We have chosen this song because it is one of his most famous songs, that made Eminem known all over the world. Eminem is one of our favorite singers because he is the best rapper in the world: in spite of his difficult childhood, thanks to his music he has become someone, so we admire him for his strength and for his willfulness. In addition to this reason we have chosen “Lose yourself” because we like its meaning. The message this song gives us is: you have to take advantage of the chance of life, give the maximum for what you want to get it, if you fail you will hardly have these possibilities, as the song says

“you better never let it go, 

you only get one shot, 

do not miss your chance to blow, 

this opportunity comes once in a lifetime”.

GLOSSARY
Published: reproduction through the printing of drawings or images, intended for distribution and generally for sale.
Golden disk: is a recognition made up of a golden disk that represents a record, which is given to musicians to certify a number of copies sold.
Neighborhood: a city area known for its particular economic, functional and historical features.
Street: ground strip drawn to connect different places and paths from pedestrians and vehicles.
Childhood: it is the life period of a child who begins with birth and ends with pre-adolescence.
Willfulness: it is when a person doesn’t move from his own ideas.
Message: a communication sent or delivered in writing, speech, ecc…
Chance: a possibility or probability of anything happening.
Miss: to stay deprived of a thing or an important person.

MY IMMORTAL

Never Give Up

The Evanescence are a rock band from the United States, formed in Little Rock in 1995. The band takes its name from the word "evanescence", the state or act of vanishing.
Their music is characterized by a fusion of alternative metal elements, gothic metal (especially at the beginning).
The band was founded by vocalist Amy Lee and guitarist Ben Moody in 1995. According to various sources not always congruent, the two met in a young camp in Arkansas, where Moody listened to Lee playing the piano and singing I'd Do Anything for Love (But I Will not Do That) by Meat Loaf; later he would say: "I thought I was in paradise. Almost I was dry. In that tiny young camp there was one of the most powerful and beautiful voices I'd ever heard.

LYRICS

I'm so tired of being here 

Suppressed by all my childish fears 

And if you have to leave 

I wish that you would just leave 

'Cause your presence still lingers here

And it won't leave me alone 

These wounds won't seem to heal 

This pain is just too real 

There's just too much that 

time cannot erase 

When you cried I'd wipe away 

all of your tears 

When you'd scream I'd fight away 

all of your fears 

I held your hand through 

all of these years 

But you still have 

All of me 

You used to captivate me 

By your resonating light 

Now I'm bound by the life 

you left behind 

Your face it haunts 

My once pleasant dreams 

Your voice it chased away 

All the sanity in me 

These wounds won't seem to heal 

This pain is just too real 

There's just too much that 

time cannot erase 

When you cried I'd wipe away 

all of your tears 

When you'd scream I'd fight away 

all of your fears 

I held your hand through 

all of these years 

But you still have 

All of me 

I've tried so hard to tell myself 

that you're gone 

But though you're still with me 

I've been alone all along 

When you cried I'd wipe away 

all of your tears 

When you'd scream I'd fight away 

all of your fears 

I held your hand through 

all of these years 

But you still have 

All of me, me, me

All together, we’ve chosen this song, in memory of our dear friend Angelo who, after a fatal accident, lost his life.

Angelo was more of a classmate or a friend. Angelo was a part of us and from one day to another everyone lost him.
As the song says, it is a pain that none of us can forget because it is such a strong pain that even time can’t erase, it’s “a spirit staying with you after its death and haunting you until you actually wish that the spirit were gone because it won't leave you alone”.

GLOSSARY
Suppress: to put an end to the activities of a person to keep in or repress (a feeling, smile, groan, etc.)
Wound: an injury or hurt (also to emotions)
Heal: to repair or take care of
Tear: drop of water coming from your eyes when you’re sad, wounded, ecc…
Fear: you have fear when you’re in an impending danger
Guitarist: a performer on the guitar
Classmate: a member of the same class at a school or college
Fusion: the act or process of fusing or the state of being fused

Linkin Park

MMCEditorial

We’ve always loved rock music, we can listen to it for hours and hours. But Linkin Park's music left a mark on our hearts. We discovered the band hearing the song “What I’ve Done” from the Minutes to Midnight album and we liked it so much that we started to follow the band and the other songs later published.

This Band can satisfy all kinds of ears, because it's rock influenced by hip hop, alternative rock and electronics. The band was founded in 1996 in Los Angeles by three high school friends, Mike Shinoda, Rob Bourdon and Brad Delson. They called their band Xero and firstly recorded in Shinoda's bedroom. After recruiting Chester Bennington, they renamed the band Hybrid Theory. 

Their first concert was in Los Angeles, after which they got a contract with the Warner Bros Records, but they had to change their name one last time in Linkin Park, and changed their lineup. Their first success was the album Hybrid Theory, that sold over 30 million copies influenced by other groups like Defnotes, Nine Inch Nails, Depeche mode, and other ones. 

In 2003 the band began a small tour, the “Lp Underground Tour” reserved only for the fan club members; it started in Milano (23 February) and finished in Los Angeles (25 March). Their lineup in 2017 was: Chester Bennington, Mike Shinoda, Brad Delson, Rob Bourdon and Joe Hanh. Linkin Park's logo was initially a square with the letters L and P inside it (the letter P was reversed) but in 2007 the logo was modified to a circle with two triangles in it, indicating in a particular way the initials of the band. The last logo published was an exagon with the triangles inside, indicating the band formed by 6 members. After the death of Bennington, Shinoda posted the same logo, but with the exagon missing a side.

We wanted to leave here a tribute to Chester Bennington, who died in 2017: “You satisfied our ears with your music, now let us remember you continuosly hearing your songs".

GLOSSARY
Lineup: members composing a music band
Mark: sign, little scratch on something
Underground: below the ground level
Recruit: to look for and hire new members for a band
Influence: to cause an effect on something or someone
Found: to form a music band
Record: to put sound on a disc or a tape
Exagon: a figure having six angles and six sides

THE PASUL

 The Strangers

The pasul has Turkish origins, and its ingredients are beans, water, meat, vegetables and various spices. It's a typical Turkish-Kosovan dish that was born more than three centuries ago, and it’s still adored by all Turks and Kosovans. 

This dish was used during war time because it is easy to prepare. We chose the pasul because it’s very tasty and everybody adores it. After preparing, the pasul takes a day to rest, so that the next day the dish is ready to be eaten. 

The pasul takes from four to six hours only for cooking and boiling. The only flaw of this dish is that it causes farts. The pasul is usually matched with salad and homemade cheese, and it can be served without meat, but it’s mostly consumed with homemade dried beef.
When I think about the pasul, it occurs to me when I was a kid and it was time to have dinner with all my cousins: we ate together laughing and joking after a day full of games. It also reminds me some winter days spent out with my grandfather to help him and in the evening we ate the hot pasul, that warmed us all over the body, exposed to the cold of those days.


INGREDIENTS
Paprika
Onions
Black pepper
Spices
Pepper
Water
Beans
Dried meat


PREPARATION
It takes from four to six hours of cooking and boiling; and it’s usually matched with salad and homemade cheese. To prepare the pasul, you have to fill a pot of water and put it to boil, when the water bubbles, add the beans and let the beans cook together with the meat; then take a frying pan and fry the onions cut into tiny pieces and add black pepper, cut peppers, salt. After 2/3 hours of boiling, when the beans and the meat are ready, put the spices and cuttings in the pot and let it boil slowly for about 3 hours.

At last the pasul is served hot with homemade cheese or homemade cucumber peppers under homemade vinegar.



GLOSSARY
Dish: the dish is a particular type of food
Centuries: a century is a period of 100 years
Tasty: the word tasty it’s used to describe a dish; and it means that the dish has a good taste
Boiling: boiling is when a liquid reaches the temperature and turns into a gas
Fart: a fart is a flatus expelled through the anus
Homemade: it means that it’s prepared at home
Dried: it means that it’s characterized by absence of natural wetness
Laughing: when a person laughs it means that he is amused, pleased, happy
Warmed: it means having moderate heat
Exposed: it means vulnerable