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How to heat plates

In restaurants serving "à l'assiette", wich means that your dish is presented already served on a plate, it's very important for the plates to be hot, otherwise dishes arrive cold and it's the customer that (rightly) becomes heated. At home it's worth doing the same thing: you are sure to serve hot dishes to your guests, and as a hot plate can wait longer than a cold one, it can sometimes help to avoid panic in the kitchen at serving time. Here are some simple ways to heat your plates.

Walnut short bread

Those little biscuits are with good walnut taste, because walnut are shortly roasted before powdered, it's very simple and efficient.

Aperitif rolls

These are small, bite-sized, soft bread rolls made with bacon bits and topped with grated cheese.

How to prepare romanesco

Here is how to take a whole romanesco and end up with small pieces ready to use in a recipe.