Archive for May 1st, 2009

Ingredients for 6 persons:
1 kg of octopus
2 large potatoes
a sprig of parsley
a clove of garlic
juice of 1 lemon
Oil in abundance
salt to taste
pepper to taste
Procedure:
Boil potatoes in salted water. Peel them and let them cool. Clean the octopus removing the entrails, or ask your fishmonger to do it trust. In a saucepan, boil the water slightly salty. Let it cook for 15-20 minutes the octopus. Past the time it takes to cook, drain, and once warmed, cut into pieces and place in a bowl. Cut into cubes and add the potatoes to the octopus. Season with lemon juice, parsley, some salt, pepper, a clove of garlic and plenty of oil. Place in refrigerator for 2-3 hours. Serve cold, better if prepared the day before.

Have you ever wondered if you were in another life of animals, what animals you would be? You can not even imagine how hard I sometimes thought! Studies on human evolution are clear: we derive from monkeys ... but, in spite of myself, I still can not be fully convinced! For some, only to see them, the lineage is unmistakable (_ ^ -), the other thing is a bit more complex ... Writing on this blog is helping me to clarify within myself ... So far I have published almost all recipes ... I'll fish was not a cat? And you? The photo below intrigues you? AhAHhAhHA!

Ingredients for 6 persons:
800 g of anchovies
100 g breadcrumbs
60 g pecorino cheese
10 pitted black olives
a handful of capers
a clove of garlic
a sprig of parsley
extra virgin olive oil
pepper

Procedure:
Boned anchovies. Prepare a mixture by combining the breadcrumbs, cheese, black olives, capers, garlic clove, cut into small pieces, pepper, parsley and oil needed to mix everything. Grease a baking sheet with oil it is available over the anchovies. Put the mixture on anchovies with breadcrumbs and bake at 200 degrees for 15-20 minutes. Serve warm.

Wednesday, the magic and mystery of a message that said looks like this: 'Last night I prepared a fresh experiment and I took pictures for you, whenever I can send you the' made ​​me fantasize lucubrate and until today, when, at last , the secret was revealed and has appeared in all its glory ... Dear Katia, stunt Amelie and her fabulous world, you have to hit the mark with this cake elegant and charismatic like you, and the way in which you have gigionissimo photographed made me choose not to choose among the photos you sent me and, as you see, I have posted all three (_ ^ -) Ladies and gentlemen ... directly from Amelie:
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For the dough:
The peel a clementine
200 grams of flour
100 grams of soft butter
60 g of clementine juice
1 pinch of salt
For the filling:
1 kg of apples
The juice of one lemon
1 tablespoon brown sugar
250 g of jam mandarin (or orange)
1 pinch of cinnamon if you like
For the jam:
Use clementine marmalade (or orange) ready or prepared a jam with 600 grams of peeled clementines, seedless and 300 grams of granulated sugar
For the crumble:
130 grams of flour
100 grams of butter
80 grams of sugar cane
Classical procedure:
1.Tritate clementine zest and mix with the flour. Mix the flour with the butter, clementine juice and salt. Let the dough rest in refrigerator for 30 minutes.
2.Sbucciate apples and slice thin, put them in a bowl and sprinkle with the lemon juice, sugar and cinnamon. United 250 g of mandarin jam, stir and let stand.
3.Foderate a mold (28-cm) greased and floured the dough that you left to rest in the fridge. Spread the mixture over the apples and jam.
4.Preparate the crumble and crumble with your hands kneading flour butter and sugar. Then sprinkle the apples with the crumbs of dough obtained. Bake at 180 degrees for 40-50 minutes.
For those who use the latest model of the Thermomix proceed as follows:
Chop the peel: 5 / 2 / '8 speed. Add the other ingredients: 10-15 seconds / '5 speed. Proceed as in steps 2 and 3. Prepare the crumble pouring the ingredients in the bowl and knead for 10-15 seconds velocita'5.