Archive for May 2009

And 'for a while that sprout from foodblog ricettine based on asparagus of all types, and then, a few days ago, I found myself face to face with these wonderful green-tipped sticks flourished, and, without getting lost in useless arguments, they I admired and then sniffed. Their fragrance I returned to a mixture of broad beans and artichokes, and so I got carried away by the visual and olfactory sensations and in the blink of an eye were in my basket. Back at home began work as a brain to use them, the more I looked, the more I was losing friends foodblog: there was the cream of asparagus , Chamomile, there were guitar spaghetti asparagus, chives and Robiola of Arietta, c ' was the risotto with asparagus, zucchini and chives Laura ... mumble mumble ... I wanted something that would actually be a dinner but a snack for lunch and so I chose this fantastic cake asparagus proposed by Maite blog 's Kitchen Calycanthus has literally haunted me ... I ran the recipe to the letter, except the sesame seeds which I thought I'd sprinkle the loaf pan. TROUBLESHO unique: we've eaten almost everything at dinner. Really squisitoooooo!

Ingredients:
a bunch of asparagus (400 g approx)
200 g of flour
100 g of grated parmesan cheese
3 eggs
1 ml of milk
1 dl of olive oil
1 packet of yeast
a handful of sesame seeds
Salt and pepper
Procedure:
Boil the asparagus by Scola with a little 'al dente, not cut them too thin and set aside. Mix grated cheese with the eggs, add the milk, beating with electric whips, then the sifted flour, oil and yeast, at this point add the asparagus, salt and pepper, stir with a wooden spoon and pour in a form of cake. Sprinkle with sesame seeds and bake in preheated oven for 30-40 minutes at about 180 degrees.

Ingredients for 10 scones small:
280 grams of flour
a packet of baking powder
114 grams of margarine
50 grams of sugar
3 handfuls of raisins
200 ml milk
1 egg
Procedure:
In a bowl sift the flour together with baking powder and adding to it the margarine at room temperature, cut into pieces. Knead for 1 minute until mixture is crumb. Stir in sugar and raisins 3 fists. In a jug whisk the egg with the milk. Stir in a little at a time the liquid, while making sure to leave some for gilding. Flour the pastry board, lie the dough to form a disk of 2 cm in height. Obtained with a small glass a dozen floppy disks. Soaked the top of each of them in the milk mixture and egg and place on a baking sheet well apart. Bake at 170 ° aired on the lower grate of the oven for 15-20 minutes.

With these sweet paninetti of Irish origin for the collection of Imma, the finest pastries in the world !

The animal is likely to bring you home a kitten or a puppy recovered on the road, Gianluca until now I have always taken branches, twigs, branches to be satiated, planting and care, but a few nights ago he came home with nothing but a strange expression, I asked: It 'something happened? I said: I saw a beautiful yucca, sdradicata here in front of the garden and thrown away! He's sorry too, I take it you say? I said: It 'feasible?! Obviously I was referring to the size of the plant ... I replied with a smile: Well! I have not evaluated the size, only the beauty! Should I go there and see better ... Go ... Back after 5 minutes and tells me that it was feasible and that a gentleman had offered to help transport long as they had saved! Mmmmmmh! It began to smell, but I have chosen to explore! After quarter of an hour the bell finally rings, I open, turn on the light and take a step back: before me there was a gigantic monster with two heads, which touched the ceiling for a long and wide throughout the expanded landing, and Gianluca and gentle ladies sweaty and exhausted from the effort. No time to realize and see the monster go into the house, spread out on the balcony and on the way a lot of plates can not! Now the monster has been divided into two monsters and every day we hope that at least one of the two can be saved ... For dinner, translated further than 2 hours, fortunately I had prepared something cold, which, being in the refrigerator longer than expected , has given way to all the ingredients to blend their flavors, creating a flat taste simple, fresh and summery ... There I present ...

Ingredients for 4 people:
400 g green beans
400 g potatoes, yellow paste
4 tomatoes salad
1 clove of garlic
a sprig of parsley
oil to taste
salt to taste
pepper to taste
Procedure:
Clean the beans by removing the ends. Peel the potatoes and cut them pezzi.Portare to boil a pot of water, salt and jump in the water is recovered fagiolini.Quando the boil, add the potatoes. When cooked, drain and cool all over. Put the beans in a bowl and potatoes become cold, add the tomatoes cut into wedges, seasoned with a clove of garlic cut very thin, abundant oil, chopped parsley, pepper and salt to taste. Mix together and place in refrigerator for half an hour before serving.

From what I happened to: a free afternoon all to myself! I took 4 hours to leave and now I am dedicating to post some ricettina I had left on standby waiting for the right moment. What peace, what peace of mind, I arrived home at 14:00, I held a quick meeting pranzettino only my needs, I started to walk naked and I had lunch on the terrace enjoying finally my jasmine flowers. It 'a smell and sight: the wall seems sprayed shaving foam! Then I prepared a cup of coffee, I turned on the PC and with this intoxicating smell of coffee and jasmine I'm about to visually describes the dinner a few nights ago: simple, genuine and summer.

Ingredients:
1 grouper from 700-800g
10 cherry tomatoes
30 grams of pecorino romano
a handful of capers
8-10 olives
a sprig of parsley
a few slices of lemon
1 clove of garlic
pepper to taste
oil to taste
Procedure:
Clean the fish by depriving the innards and scales, I do do do from my fishmonger to trust. Put the bottom of a baking dish a little olive oil and a bit of garlic, finely chopped. Place the grouper in the belly, and introduce some folgiolina parsley and 2-3 slices of lemon. Season the fish with olives, capers, chopped parsley, tomatoes and chopped garlic. Sprinkle the fish
cheese, pepper and sprinkle with a past of oil. Sprinkle the fish with wet hands with water. Bake at 200 degrees for 20 minutes. Serve the fish topped with barbed and gravy, olives, capers and tomatoes.

Lots of potatoes for mercy from the basket, a piece of provolone in the fridge waiting to be taken by the hand, the terrace overflowing with herbs, the anguish of turning on the oven heat, hunger, and a little imagination pizza with potatoes in a pan on the table to be alone. If you happen to be in this situation go quiet with this unusual and fragrant ricettina.

Ingredients for 4 people:
1kg potatoes with white flesh
3 eggs
200 g of provolone
50 g of grated parmesan cheese
a handful of sage leaves
a sprig of thyme
a sprig of parsley
extra virgin olive oil
salt and pepper to taste
Procedure:
Pass the potatoes under running cold water, scrubbing with a stiff bristle brush, then prick and boil in lightly salted water. Wash, dry and chop the herbs, cut the provolone into small pieces. drain the potatoes until al dente, peel them and crush it with schacciatele-potatoes directly into a bowl. Mix in eggs, grated cheese, herbs and diced provolone. Then add salt and pepper and stir well with a wooden spoon. Grease a pan with little oil. When it is hot, sprinkle with breadcrumbs and as soon as this sfrigolerà, pour the mixture, the level to about 2 inches high with a spoon wet. Do form a crust on the bottom, then capolgete pizza, helping with a flat lid. Repeat oil and breadcrumbs. Brown the other side and serve hot pizza.

It may well be true that one swallow does not primavara, but it certainly makes summer a mosquito! I won the first three bites of the mosquito season! And vaiiii! Among scratched the calf, an ankle, an arm was born this dish refreshing and detoxifying, a blessing to purify the body in anticipation of summer wild oats. It 'a dish that makes me think of holidays, my childhood summers spent at my grandparents' house in Calabria, the scent of fresh vegetables from the garden, while he thundered to his grandmother who was playing in the garden: A wash maniiiii! And what was more often on the table?? VAIANEDDA, ​​or spaghetti and green beans to coral, a variety of beans 'transgenic' or otherwise of enormous dimensions than we're used to us in Apulia, but dressed as follows.

Ingredients for 4 people:
300 grams of spaghetti
2 medium zucchini
1 medium potato
500 grams of green beans
40 grams ricotta marzotica
For the sauce:
600 g red tomatoes
extra virgin olive oil to taste
a clove of garlic
2-3 leaves of basil
salt to taste
Procedure:
Prepare a light sauce: lightly fry a clove of minced garlic in 2 tablespoons of olive oil, add the diced San Marzano tomatoes, some basil leaves and salt to taste. and cook for 15-20 minutes. Clean the beans and depriving them of estremità.Lavate cut into chunks zucchini and potatoes. Proceed with cooking vegetables: get a pot as long and large vegetables and spaghetti should be cooked together. Fill the pot 3 / 4 of water and bring to a boil. Then add salt and dip the beans first. After 5 minutes add the zucchini and potatoes. When the water resumes boiling, add the spaghetti. As soon as the spaghetti, and then all the vegetables are cooked, drain and seasoning Place on the plate with the sauce of fresh tomatoes and a handful of ricotta marzotica.

Hehe ... Tradition in go-go: Weekend ... Sunday ... family ... and the first dish in the oven comes naturally! This would strongly recommend to try it because compared to the usual baked pasta is very fast, without having to give up the flavors and aromas Sunday, and the appreciation of dramatic effect diners (_ ^ -). The intriguing thing is that the noodles do not require boiling in water, but is flavored by raw directly into the baking pan, sauce and milk will be to ensure proper cooking the pasta and the perfect blend of ingredients.

Ingredients for 6 persons:
500 grams of packaged noodles nest
400 grams ground meat mixed
500 g mozzarella cheese
a handful Parmesan
50 g butter
For the sauce:
1 bottle of tomato sauce
1 onion
extra virgin olive oil
2 glasses of water
salt
1-2 cups milk
Procedure:
Prepare the sauce: fry the onion do in 2 tablespoons of olive oil and pour the sauce with a glass of water, salt and cook for an hour. During cooking, adding to it another glass of water if the sauce thickens too much, must, in fact, because it will be very liquid in which the liquid will cook the noodles. In a pan fry the minced meat with some oil and a pinch of mozzarella sale.Tagliuzzate into squares. In a baking pan, arrange the nests side by side, without putting any seasoning in the pan. Within each nest, try to put more ground beef and mozzarella cheese as possible. Pour the sauce into the pan and cover the nests almost entirely with milk. Sprinkle with grated parmesan and cover the pan with aluminum foil SKU. Inform at 250 degrees for 15 minutes. Past time to remove the foil and continue cooking at 200 ° for 20 minutes. Serve hot.

Friday afternoon, returning home, my head bounced off the dialogues, meetings and clashes had at work during the week, and muttering that, from time to time I escaped some little phrase out loud, like, 'What are ways ! ',' But who makes me do it! '(@ - @) ... Hmmm! Now I'm used to, has become a classic on Friday night, I call aftershock, the last gasps before I could enjoy the weekend quietly! And what better way to put your fingers in the pie to realize that the mind can finally give way to the body? Interpret a bit like you, mine was just a convoluted way of saying that I had a sweet, sweet indeed, to be exact day that the tart courted Blog blossom pastry of sweet chamomile, whom I thank for giving me the key to open the doors to the weekend. The pie was highly acclaimed: the taste of pastry vaguely remember the fragrance of horseshoes and the interior, a well established by our union mastripasticceri, after cooking, it becomes soft and creamy and melts in your mouth. Truly a delight. Try it!

Ingredients for 8 people:
For the pastry:
300 g flour 00
150 g of caster sugar
1 teaspoon of baking powder
3 egg yolks
150 g of butter
The grated rind of one lemon bio
For the filling:
2 ripe pears (instead of 2 cans of pears in syrup)
10/15 macaroons (other cookies or to taste)
About 100 g of dark chocolate broken into pieces
Procedure:
Prepare the pastry: mix the flour with the butter cut into pieces. Add sugar, egg yolks, zest
grated organic lemon, a teaspoon of baking powder and knead velocemnte.Formate the classic ball, wrap in plastic food. Let rest in refrigerator for about 30 minutes. Take a little less than 2 / 3 of dough and spread it evenly on a lightly floured work surface (or between two sheets of waxed paper if you prefer) in a disc that you will be placed in a mold of 24 cm, lined with paper oven, forming the base and edges of the tart. With your hands and place crumbled amaretti on the bottom, then add the pears cut into thin slices and cover forming small balls with the remaining third of dough. Completed by placing the chocolate coarsely chopped. Bake in preheated oven at 160 °, fan, for about 30-35 minutes. Let cool and serve, if you like, sprinkle with icing sugar. I have posted pictures with and without sugar, because I was undecided about whether or not to put it. Finally I decided to put it, but before I did the photo without (_ ^ -).

It seems only yesterday that I watched the sky and I enjoyed shaping the clouds wondering why, in a world of ecologists, the Lord had decided to leave the tap running! It will be made an examination of conscience, was to be the way it is ... I do not know, but summer has arrived unexpectedly. In these days at home was a lift boxes, in the winter, rising up to give way, down, summer. Taken to do this I forgot to describe the day of Mother's Day, but it's gone and I will not dwell threatens to take from attacks of nostalgia, I say only that we have opened
the summer home on the balcony for the first time this year we had lunch on the terrace and we enjoyed our green! For what concerns the lunch was fish, but I will focus in particular on this wonderful second mother and I, between a chat and the other, we have prepared 4 hands.

Ingredients for 6 persons:
2 large squid
100 grams of bread
half a glass of milk
2 eggs
50 g pecorino cheese
a sprig of parsley
1 clove of garlic
2 large onions
Half a glass of white wine
oil to taste
pepper to taste
salt to taste
Procedure:
Clean the insides of the squid and the outer skins. Keep it in a cup full of salt water and seasoning them in the fridge for 2-3 hours. Past the time needed, quickly rinse the squid under running water, privateli the head and tentacles with scissors and crumble helping very sharp (I'm feeling a serial killer!). Prepare the filling: Soak the bread in milk, squeeze it and place it in a cup, aggingetevi 2 eggs, chopped the head and tentacles, pecorino, parsley and garlic finely chopped, pepper and a pinch of salt. Fill the bellies of squid stuffed with taking care not to overdo it because the heat tends to swell and could blow up the squid. Fasten the ends with toothpicks. Take a baking dish, sprinkle with olive oil and place over onions, coarsely chopped. Lay the squid, sprinkle with a little salt to the pan and bake in preheated oven at 250 ° for 10 min. After this time, remove the pan from the oven, sprinkle with white wine and continue cooking for 30 minutes at 200 degrees. Serve warm.

If you burn your finger to fire those who you call? Mom!
Do you remember this mom? It 'the first poem that I was dedicated by Matthias when he was only 4 years and then you tried to teach me but to hear you play again, but without the expected results, since they were already evident to my poor memory performance! But that poem we were so fond of you did not want to pass into oblivion and then we grow, and you, when we needed you, you, the self-acting and there rispodevi jokingly: "If you burn your finger to the flame, who call ? Mom! ". Then, over time, this burnt finger has different connotations, deeper, but the gist was that you will always come to find refuge and comfort. Dear Mother, by dint of repeating the verse I've convinced you're the first person I think if you are in trouble, you who are always there if I need, you are the cornerstone of my life. On the occasion of this holiday shopping, but speaking of mothers and then that's okay, I prepared this cake, a tiramisu-like in a pie, a delicacy that will make you proud of me had always underfoot while cooking. I love you. Happy Birthday (_ ^ -)

Ingredients for a mold of 28 cm:
For the pastry:
1 egg
250 flour
100 of butter
100 of sugar
1 / 2 packet of yeast
To the interior:
2 tablespoons Nutella
2 cups of caffe'zuccherato
10-12 biscuits
For the mascarpone cream:
500ml milk
2 egg yolks
150 g sugar
50 g flour
1 packet vanillin
2 tablespoons rum
250 g mascarpone
Procedure:
Prepare the pastry by mixing the flour with the butter first softened slightly, and then quickly incorporating sugar, baking powder and egg. Let the dough rest in refrigerator for half an hour. Meanwhile, prepare the custard: Mix the egg yolks with the sugar, add flour, vanilla and milk and bring to a boil, stirring constantly. Boil the cream for 5 minutes, turn off and cool. Preheat oven to 170 ° ventilated. Line a mold with a diameter of 28 cm with baking paper, cover the bottom and edges of the pan with a thin layer of dough. Place sull'impasto of 'the other with baking paper on top of dried vegetables, this will prevent from swelling at the base. Cook it for 15 minutes, then remove the paper with legumes and Contini cooking for another 15 minutes. Remove from the oven and let cool. Prepare the cream mixture incorporating the now cooled custard, mascarpone and 2 tablespoons rum. Take the base of the tart, sprinkle with 2 tablespoons Nutella and recline over ladyfingers soaked in coffee well. Pour the cream mixture over ladyfingers and leveled well with a spatula. For the decoration of cocoa sprinkled around the cake and the biscuits, you will put triangles drawn along the edge. For the word you can use Nutella. Let cool in refrigerator for 3-4 hours.

The recipe is a revised version of tiramisu tart Angelica Cookaround site.