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Christmas is that time of the year where feelings run high, where best wishes travel through cell phone messages and we have to scratch our heads to find the perfect gift we want to give.

In addition, it is the perfect month of the year to get together with friends and/or family and enjoy a good evening around a good lunch or a magnificent dinner. And although food is the most important product in these dates, an original decoration of the house and especially the space where you will enjoy the feast is essential to make the date a success.

Here are some tips to make your guests’ jaws drop.

1. Turn to nature. We are in winter, a time when a simple walk in the countryside can bring you many surprises. There are dry leaves, pine or fir branches and even seasonal fruit that you can use to decorate the table or nearby spaces. Plants such as rosemary or lavender can also impregnate your home with the special aroma of this season.
2. Wood decorates by itself. If you have a natural wood table in your dining room you can choose not to dress it with a tablecloth. It is a risky option because of the stains that may occur afterwards, but with a natural decoration showing the wood can complement it perfectly.
3. Best dish on a plate. It is a resource that is used for big occasions, and this is one of them. The under plate gives a great air of elegance and you can also play with different colors and styles within a variety that combines with the other elements.
4. Light tones are better than dark. The three wise men were chasing a star, so light is also a symbol of this season. Light-toned table linen is ideal for Christmas lunches and dinners and is a perfect background to then let our imagination run wild with the colors of the rest of the objects we have to add.
5. If it shines, it’s good. Glasses, under plates, cutlery, candlesticks. In a house we can find several shiny objects that, placed in harmony, enhance and decorate any space.
6. The hypnotic play of candles. In addition to candelabras, playing with different types of candles creates a warm and friendly atmosphere with which to spend a good day. You can place them alone or in a group, inside centers prepared for this purpose or distribute them around a specific room.

And if you’re in the hospitality industry, you’re in luck. Becauseat Yelow we have dozens of discounted products to celebrate Christmas with you. Tableware, glassware, champagne coolers or different cutlery items are part of the catalog that you can consult here.

What is more Granada than a tapa? This June 18 is World Tapas Day, a symbol of Spanish gastronomy that in Granada is an icon. The tapas of the province of Granada are as famous as they are varied, thanks to the great work of the innkeepers, who offer their most prized recipes in a concise way. In other provinces and cities such as Almería, Bilbao, Logroño or León, tapas are also a sign of identity of their own gastronomy, which increases their importance.

In fact, the Spanish Ministry of Culture has initiated the process for ‘Las Tapas’ to be considered a Representative Manifestation of Intangible Cultural Heritage. Undoubtedly, a title that would be an accolade to the good work of so many restaurateurs and suppliers that every day offer their best products to the public.

In Yelow we share the illusion and effort of the catering industry, so we have always made available the best products with which they can work. From kitchenware to the most imaginative and innovative solutions, including all the machinery to ensure that the end customer is always satisfied. Whether you are a catering professional or a cooking enthusiast, Yelow is always with you.

In addition, this June 18 we also celebrate Sustainable Gastronomy Day, because we believe in gastronomy and we are also in favor of a fair system that takes care of everyone and the planet we inhabit. In 2016 the UN decided that this day would be dedicated to Sustainable Gastronomy to raise awareness about the protection and preservation of natural resources and thus contribute to living on a more sustainable planet.

True to our commitment to the environment, we have recently launched a new line of ecological products for take away and delivery businesses, so that caterers can offer their products in sustainable and environmentally friendly containers. You can consult the catalog here.

In this way, we take care of our customers at the same time we take care of our planet.

With Yelow everything is easier. Contact us at 958122543 or e-mail us at info@yelow.es.

Today there is no excuse, or rather, we have two great excuses to go out for tapas, see you in the bars!

Christmas is the time of reunions, of good will, of movies and blankets, of going out with friends … but it is also the month when you have to think about making several gifts. And it is not worth forgetting or remembering at the last minute, because everything good, nice and cheap flies when good buyers smell a good opportunity.

We’re going to do you a favor, as we have a gift that is sure to please longtime cooking fans and those who have joined after watching the latest season of MasterChef. We even have the perfect gift for your brother-in-law, the one who won’t settle for just anything and is hard to please. And the gift can be for you, you deserve it too, right?

Below you have a selection of the offers we have prepared for Christmas, to make your life easier. And if you are still undecided here you can find more.

With the new regulations already in place in the restaurant sector, give your terrace a twist without sacrificing glamour.

We are already counting the days until we can go out to enjoy the outdoors and the good weather. Although what we are really going to enjoy is the reunion with friends, family, and even brothers and sisters-in-law that we haven’t enjoyed for a long time.

With the good weather, we will have to protect ourselves from the sun, so from Yelow we offer you a wide range of parasols with which you can enjoy those spring and summer days that you like so much. You can choose from four different sizes.

In addition, in Yelow we also have partition screens, they are made of PVC so their handling is very easy because it does not weigh as much as methacrylate or glass. The screens guarantee the minimum separation between tables to be able to have lunch, dinner or a drink on a terrace with all the security. There are double, triple and individual ones with a nice planter.

In Yelow, to make the return to “normality” easier and aware of the costs involved in adapting to the new measures we have lowered our prices, choose the one that best suits you and your business:

Whether you have a bar, a restaurant or you are looking for a parasol for your terrace, this is your chance. Thanks to its width, our parasols reach where others do not, getting more shade space for less money. In addition, we offer you the best quality/price ratio in the market. Don’t worry about the sun and go out to the terrace. And do it with the hygienic guarantees that give you our PVC screens.

For more information, please contact us at info@yelow.com.

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Who said pizza is not healthy food? Enjoy a classic of Italian cuisine with these recommendations from our chef Carlos Caballero.

Make your own dough. It’s much easier than you think.

1. Making homemade dough

The first and most basic tip of all is to lose your fear and start making pizza dough at home. It is very simple and once you make it two or three times you will realize that it can be done almost without staining. Each master has his own recipe, I will give you the one I like the most:

• Ingredients for the dough:
  -0,5 l. of water
  -800 gr. of flour for bread. White but not too refined.
  -22 gr. of salt
  -5 gr. of brewer’s yeast.
• Ingredients for baking:
  – 50 gr. of 12 months old Grana Padano cream cheese.
  -30 gr. of smoked scamorza (a semi-hard cheese typical of Italian cuisine made with cow’s milk. It is a cheese very similar to mozzarella).
  -24 months Grana Padano grated on the edges for gratin.
• Preparation:
  Pour the water into a bowl and mix it little by little with the flour and salt. Then add the brewer’s yeast and continue kneading for 20 minutes, making sure that the dough is not too compact. Once ready, let it rest for 4 hours covered with a cloth. After this time, cut the dough into round portions of between 100 and 200 grams each, according to the taste of the diner, and let it rest for another 2 hours. Bake the disk of dough with a base of 12 months Grana Padano cream and scamorza. Halfway through baking, spread the Grana Padano au gratin on the edges.
  After cooking:
  -30 gr. pasteurized egg yolks
  -30 gr. 24-month Grana Padano chips
  -60 gr. crispy smoked bacon
  -Pepper powder.
  -Lime skin.
  Once cooked, pour the yolks over the pizza and add the bacon, lime peel and pepper powder.
  

  2. Set the oven to maximum temperature

  One of the main keys to the success of a good pizza is the oven in which it is made. In the wood-fired ovens of restaurants, temperatures of 400-500ºC can be reached. In our case, we are not lucky enough to have a professional pizza oven, so we are going to have to make do with our kitchen oven. In principle, the two ovens most commonly found in homes are electric and convection ovens.

  The cooking times of the pizza will be different in each case:
  1. Convection: In this case we will put the oven at almost the maximum 240-250ºC with the fan function on putting the pizza in the central tray. At this temperature we will have the pizza ready in 4-5 minutes.
  2. Electric: these ovens transfer the temperature to the pizza worse and therefore we have to have the pizza between 10-12 minutes in the oven. A trick is to start by putting the pizza on the lower tray of the oven so that the lower resistance makes the dough crisp and then raise it the last two minutes to the upper tray to get the pizza to brown evenly.

  3. Use a stone for the oven

  This is optional but the truth is that a good stone will cost you between 25-35€ and if you like cooking and it is one of these things that if you take care of it, it will last forever. The good thing about the baking stone is that when you put the dough in it, it loses the moisture much faster so you can get the dough much crispier.

  4. Pre-bake the dough

  This is a trick that will come in handy for those who do not have an oven stone. It consists of putting the dough already extended but without any ingredient 1-2 minutes in the oven, just enough to lose a little elasticity and ready. In this way we also get to remove moisture from the dough and thus we get more crispy.

  5. Use homemade tomato

  This may seem silly, but it is not. Pizzas with a natural tomato base are quite noticeable. In general, we will always look for the tomato sauce to be as dense as possible, and therefore, have less water content, and in this way we do not moisten the dough too much and we get that crunchy touch that we like so much.

  

  Prepare your own natural tomato sauce.

  6. Fresh mozzarella or real cheeses

  

  Cheese is an ingredient that cannot be missing in your pizza.

  For my pizza I usually use Grana Padano or scamorza but we can use any cheese we have at home to put on the pizzas, whether it is cured sheep’s cheese, goat’s cheese, etc. …. When I use fresh mozzarella, it is usually the one that comes in individual plastic bags with a little water. Now, when you use this fresh mozzarella, I recommend that you squeeze it with both hands with a kitchen towel so that it loses the maximum humidity and does not spoil the pizza.

  7. Prepare some ingredients in the frying pan beforehand.

  Another trick I usually do is to put some of the ingredients of the pizzas in the pan beforehand. For example, if I am going to put onion or bell pepper, first I poach them over low heat in a pan with a little oil and then I put them on the pizza. This way we avoid burnt or toasted ingredients. I also use this trick in pizzas with eggplant, artichoke, mushrooms, chili peppers, etc.

  8. Do not use too many ingredients

  Another basic thing is to be very clear about what you want to make the pizzas with. A pizza has to have a base that can be tomato, one or two ingredients, and then a topping such as a pesto or an olive paste, etc. If you put too many ingredients on the pizza, you will end up with a pizza that tastes like nothing and you will not be able to differentiate the flavors.

  9. Add the fresh ingredients at the end

  Another one of my tricks is to put some raw ingredients once you take the pizza out of the oven. For example, this works very well if you use cecina or bresaola, anchovies, foie, etc. This way what you get is that the ingredient is not toasted in the oven and the pizza has much more flavor.

  10. A little Parmesan or other cheese for garnish.

  Finally, I usually grate a little grana padano on the edges of the dough before baking. I use an ordinary potato peeler, to get the cheese to stay in flakes. The truth is that it gives it a very good flavor.

Want to listen to all the tips one by one? You can do it here:

And remember that at Yelow we have everything you need to make your perfect pizza.

It’s that easy, that Yelow.