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Fish cutlets

ladamache@googlemail.com (LauraAdamache) — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 15:58:00 +0000

Today I took advantage of the fact that we had fresh fish so I quickly made these cutlets. We served with rucola salad and boiled potatoes with butter and parsley.

Ingredients:

400 g trout or any other type of fresh fish

1 egg

1 yolk

juice from half fresh lemon

3 tablespoons Parmesan cheese

2 slices of white bread soaked in water/milk for 10 minutes

parsley

1 clove garlic

flour

salt

pepper

Wash and clean the fish. Put a pot full of water to boil. When it starts to boil, add juice from half fresh lemon, 1 ts salt and the fish. If the fish is very big you can cut it in half. Let fish to boil for about 15 minutes, then remove it from water and let it cool down. Remove the skin and bones from the fish and mix the clean fish meat with 1 egg, 1 yolk, 2 very well squeezed slices of bread soaked in water or milk , 3 tbs parmesan cheese, parsley, garlic, salt an pepper. I used a kitchen robot for mixing. It’s fast and clean!!

We make small balls having our hands slightly wet. Deep the fish balls in the flour and fry them in hot oil.

Panini Laugenbrot

ladamache@googlemail.com (LauraAdamache) — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 18:01:00 +0000

It is a german recipe that offers the same taste and flavour with the pretzel . They are incredibly good and very simple to make!!

Ingredients:

500 gr flour

25 gr yeast

1 teaspoon sugar

30 g butter / oil

270 g warm water

1 teaspoon salt

12 teaspoons bicarbonate of soda

2 l water

4 tablespoons salt

Put flour into a bowl, make a large well in the centre and add yeast dissolved in lukewarm water and mixed with one teaspoon sugar. Add butter (room temperature) cutted into small cubes. Knead the dough for 2-3 minutes and then add 1 teaspoon salt. Knead again for 10 minutes until our dough it’s elastic and smooth. Let dough to rest in a warm place covered with plastic wrap, 1 hour or until it doubles his size.

Flip dough on the table work and divide it into small balls, about 50 grams.

We put in a pot 2 l water mixed with 12 tablespoons bicarbonate soda and salt and when it starts to boil add 4-5 panini at the time in boiling water for 5 to 30 seconds maximum.

Fish them out of the water and put them on the baking paper placed directly on oven tray. Raise them with a knife or cutter, powder them with coarse salt, sesame or poppy seeds and bake them in preheated oven at 210 degrees for 20 minutes or until are golden brown.

Enjoy!!

A tasty hot one for all of you,

Nutella cookies

ladamache@googlemail.com (LauraAdamache) — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 18:13:00 +0000

Been a long time since I have not posted anything on my blog but today I’m back with a simple and delicious recipe.

Ingredients (14 biscuits)

125 g all- purpose flour

80 g butter

2 eggs

2 tablespoons cocoa

2 tablespoons sugar

75 g nutella (chocolate-hazelnut spread)

1 teaspoon baking soda

Mix eggs with sugar, add melted and cooled butter and then cocoa, nutela, flour and baking powder in the end. Put the dough in the refrigerator for about 30 minutes.

After 30 minutes, the dough is solid and we can form our biscuits without efforts.Now shape the dough into small round cookies and put them on the baking sheet about an inch apart from each other. Bake the cookies in the preheated oven at 170 degrees Celsius for about 10-15 minutes.

After baking, remove them from the baking sheet and cool completely on wire racks.

Culiverter widget

ladamache@googlemail.com (LauraAdamache) — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 17:31:00 +0000

I found this useful widget here and I introduce it to my blog in the right sidebar.

I hope you will enjoy it!!

Lemon mascarpone ice cream

ladamache@googlemail.com (LauraAdamache) — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 17:00:00 +0000

Because I used mascarpone cheese this ice cream is very smooth and creamy. Is so fresh and very easy to make.

Ingredients:

200 gr icing sugar

300 gr milk

250 mascarpone cheese

200 gr fresh lemon juice

Mix the milk with the sugar in a pot. Put the pot on small fire and stir until the sugar is completely disolved, then let the mix cool down. In a separate bowl, mix the mascarpone chesee and add the cold milk mix. Mix well and add the fresh lemon juice.

Put the ice cream in the freezer and after 30 minutes remove it from the freezer and stir it vigorously with a spatula or whisk. Really beat it up and break up any frozen sections. Return to freezer. Repeat this operation 3-4 times until your ice cream is ready.

Serve it with fresh lemon zest.

Easy yogurt cornetti

ladamache@googlemail.com (LauraAdamache) — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 13:09:00 +0000

In the summer, when it’s very hot outside I make these easy and quick cornetti. They are so delicious filled with nutella or marmalade.

Ingredients for 8 cornetti:

250 gr flour

125 gr yogurt (any flavour you want or natural)

125 gr butter

1 pinch salt

8 gr baking powder

Melt the butter on bain marie and set aside to cool down. Mix the flour with baking powder, the cold butter, yogurt and the salt. You will obtain an elastic dough.

Roll the dough in a shape of a circle and cut 8 slices (triangle shape). Put in the center of every triangle 1 teaspoon nutella or jam.

Roll each slice in a cornetto shape and bake them in preheated oven at 180 degrees for about 20 minutes.

Sprinkle with icing sugar and serve,

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Bagels

ladamache@googlemail.com (LauraAdamache) — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 08:53:00 +0000

It’s very easy to make bagels at home and the satisfaction after we eat a bagel made with our hands it’s so big !!

Ingredients for 10 bagels:

500 gr flour
250 gr warm water
1 medium egg
15 gr fresh yeast or 7 gr dry yeast
2 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon sugar
2 teaspoon olive oil
sesame seeds
1 egg white

In a large bowl combine the flour with salt. In a separate bowl, disolve the fresh yeast in half of the entire quantity of warm water (125 gr), add 1 teaspoon sugar and stir until the yeast is dissolved. Add the yeast to the flour. Lightly beat one medium egg and add it to the flour then add the remaining water (125 gr) and 2 teaspoon olive oil,

Knead for 10 to 15 minutes on a floured board,

until smooth and elastic. Place in a bowl, cover with plastic wrap, and let rise in a warm place for 1 hour until doubled.

Cut the dough into 10 or 12 pieces,

then make from each piece a small ball, like these ones,

Flatten the balls and press a hole into the center of each ball, forming the bagel shape.

Bring water to boil in a large, wide stockpot and boil 3 bagels at the time 20 seconds on each side, turning carefully.

Dry on a towel,

Brush the bagels with 1 egg white slightly beaten and sprinkle on top sesame seeds

Bake at 200 degrees (preheated oven) for 15-20 minutes or until brown,

Cherry Syrup

ladamache@googlemail.com (LauraAdamache) — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 06:38:00 +0000

I love cherries and every summer I eat them with so much pleasure. This syrup can be made also with strawberries, rasberries, apples, pears, pineapple, etc.

Ingredients:

500 gr flavored cherries
500 gr water
750 gr sugar
1 lemon
1 tablet of aspirin

Place the cherries in a large saucepan with the water and mash well. Let the mix in the refrigerator for 24 hours,

Next day, put the cherries mix in a muslin bag and squeeze all the syrup.

Measure the juice ( I obtained 750 gr cherries juice ) then add the same quantity of sugar(750 gr).

Put the juice mixed with sugar on medium heat and bring it to boil. When it begins to boil remove from heat and add the lemon juice.

Let the syrup cool down for about 10 minutes . Put in a separate saucepan 4-5 tablespoon with syrup and disolve the aspirin tablet in it. I used effervescent aspirin tablet from Bayer.

Add the disolved aspirin back in the syrup, stir well and let the syrup cool down to the room temperature.

Pour the syrup in the bottles and keep them in a cold, dark place. It can be stored up to 1 year.

Pineapple sorbet

ladamache@googlemail.com (LauraAdamache) — Fri, 15 May 2009 07:31:00 +0000

This exotic dessert is so fresh and it’s so easy to make. This recipe is not the classic one but the result it’s delicious. We only need a pineapple can in syrup for this dessert!

Ingredient for 4 cups:

1can (375gr) pineapple in syrup

Put the pineapple with the syrup in a food processor and process until smooth,

Place sorbet into a freezer-safe container. Cover and freeze until firm (6-7 hours).

After freezing cut the sorbet into small pieces and place it again in a food processor,

Process until obtain a smooth sorbet (5 minutes),

and serve,

Corn flour cookies

ladamache@googlemail.com (LauraAdamache) — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 07:35:00 +0000

I made these cookies 3 times in one week!! It’s a very simple, economic and flavored recipe.

Ingredients:

240 gr corn flour
200 gr all-purpose flour
140 gr powdered sugar
250 gr butter (room temperature)
1 medium egg
1 envelope vanilla sugar
1 lemon zest
semisweet chocolate chips
granulated sugar

Mix well all the ingredients,

until you obtain a compact dough,

form litlle balls from dough and lightly press them flat. Place the cookies on the baking pan covered with parchment paper, sprinkle with semisweet chocolate chips and granulated sugar.

Bake about 10-15 minutes at 180 degees C (preheated oven), or until golden brown around the edges. Cool completely on wire rack.

A closer look,

Easy focaccia with cream

ladamache@googlemail.com (LauraAdamache) — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 07:12:00 +0000

It’s a very easy and delicious recipe. I love focaccia and this one is really fast and so yummy!!

Ingredients:

500 gr all purpose flour
170 gr cream
110 gr warm water
7 gr dry yeast
40 gr olive oil
3 medium chopped onions (optional) you can replace it with salt or another vegetable
rosemary
1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon sugar

I used the bread machine for making the dough. Place into the pan of the bread machine the liquid ingredients first: cream, warm water, olive oil and the sugar. Then, add the flour and the dry yeast.

and set the machine to create dough.

When the machine finishes, roll out the dough on a greased baking sheet and drizzle olive oil on dough. Sprinkle with crushed rosemary and chopped onion,

Cover with plastic wrap and place in a warm place for 1 hour.

Bake at 180 degrees C (preheated oven) for 25 to 30 minutes, until just golden. Remove from baking sheet, and cool on rack.

Cut it in slices and serve,

Making the dough by hand:

Of course that is a method to do this easy recipe without a bread machine.

In a large bowl mix the flour with the dry yeast. Make a hole in the center of the flour and add the cream, warm water, olive oil and 1 teaspoon with sugar. Knead the dough until all the ingredients are mixed well. Now you can add 1 teaspoon with salt. Never mix directly salt and yeast, as salt inhibits yeast growth. After adding the salt knead the dough until smooth. Cover the bowl with a plastic wrap and let it in a warm place for 1 hour or until double it size. After 1 hour, roll out the dough on a greased baking sheet and drizzle olive oil on dough. Sprinkle with crushed rosemary and chopped onion. Cover with plastic wrap and place in a warm place for 1 hour.

Bake at 180 degrees C (preheated oven) for 25 to 30 minutes, until just golden. Remove from baking sheet, and cool on rack. Cut it in slices and serve.

Chocolate and vanilla bavarois

ladamache@googlemail.com (LauraAdamache) — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 18:49:00 +0000

As I will leave Germany in three days to return in Italy , I thought that my last dessert made here will be a bavarois. A chocolate and vanilla bavarois!!

Ingredients:

400 ml cream
250 ml milk
75 g sugar
50 g chocolate bittersweet, finely chopped
12 g gelatin in sheets
1 teaspoon cornstarch
3 egg yolks
vanilla extract/vanilla sugar

First of all cover the sheets of gelatin with cold water, and let them sit until they soften (about 10 min).

Mix the egg yolks with the sugar, one teaspoon starch and the vanilla extract (only for a few minutes). We don’t need to mix them until light. Only mix them very well.

Temper the egg mixture by slowly adding the hot milk to it while constantly mixing. Now, cook over a very gently fire until the mixture became hot. It is very important not to boil . When is hot , turn off the fire.

Squeeze the gelatin sheets and add them to the egg mixture:

Stir until the gelatine is fully melted/dissolved.

Split the egg mixture in two equal parts.

In one of them add chocolate and stir until disolved,

Let the two mixtures completely cool down.

Whip the cream until it stands in soft peaks. Add 200 ml cream into the chocolate mixture

Lightly grease a bavarois bowl with mandarin oil an add the chocolate mixture,

refrigerate for about 5 minutes.

In the meantime , we make the vanilla mixture. Add the other 200 ml whipped cream to vanilla mixture,

and stir gently until combined,

Now we add the vanilla mixture over the chocolate mixture,

and refrigerate 12 hours or until the next day.

To serve, dip the bavarois bowl upright into hot water, without allowing any water to go over the edge and then carefully invert onto a large plate.

It is sooo delicious…

Thin pancakes (crepes)

ladamache@googlemail.com (LauraAdamache) — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 16:46:00 +0000

I really love thin pancakes and I enjoy to make them from time to time. It’s so easy and fun!! So, you can try it too..

Ingredients:

250 gr flour
500 ml milk
3 eggs
40 g butter
75 g sugar
1 envelope vanilla extract
1/4 teaspoon salt

Mix flour with milk, sugar, vanilla extract and salt,

in another bowl whisk eggs for 2-3 minutes. Add the eggs to the flour mixed with milk and sugar and mix all togheter for a few muntes.

Refrigerate the batter for 1 hour.

After 1 hour, melt the butter and when is warm add it to the batter.

Heat an antiaderent pan and light grease with a bit of butter. Pour the batter onto the pan, using approximately 1/4 cup for each pancake. Tilt the pan with a circular motion so that the batter coats the surface evenly. Cook the crepe for about 2 minutes, until the bottom is light brown. Turn and cook the other side.

Serve hot,

Tuna mousse

ladamache@googlemail.com (LauraAdamache) — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 13:56:00 +0000

When you have unexpected guests or when you want to eat something delicious without any effort, you may try this easy recipe. It is sooo good!!

Ingredients:

1 can (240 g) drained tuna packed in oil
100 gr unsalted butter, cut into small pieces
1 ts fresh lemon juice
4 tbs mayonnaise

Mix the tuna well drained with the butter,

until smooth,

add the mayonnaise gradually and the fresh lemon juice,

Transfer the mousse to a bowl and keep refrigerated.

Take it out of the refrigerator 15-20 minutes before serving to let it soften.

Serve with bread sticks, small toasts, croutons, crackers.

Pizza “8 minutes”… in the pan!!

ladamache@googlemail.com (LauraAdamache) — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 14:44:00 +0000

I know it sounds strange, but I promise you that the flavor is amazing!! It’s a very quick pizza and a good looking one too. So, this is the “fried” pizza:

Ingredients 5 pizza (10 cm diameter)

450 g flour (all-purpose)
225 ml warm water
7 gr dry yeast
1 ts salt
2 tbs olive oil
1 ts sugar

Mix flour with the yeast and sugar, make a well in the center and add water mixed with olive oil,

Knead until dough is elastic and smooth,

Cover and let rise in a warm place until doubles its size (2 hours).

After 2 hours, the dough looks like this:

Cut the dough in 5 pieces and roll each other with the hand in 5 disks. It’s important to use the hands when we are making the pizza because the flavor will be more intense and the cooked dough will remain elastic after cooling.

Put on the fire an antiaderent pan using a cover of the same size. We don’t grease the pan with oil or anything else. When both pan and cover are very very hot, we add one disk of pizza and cover again. Let the pizza 4 minutes on moderate fire , then turn it on the other side, add pomodoro sauce, mozzarella and slices of prosciutto (or any topping that you want), cover again and let it cook for another 4 minutes.

Our pizza is ready to be served,

A closer look,

and a hot flavored piece for you,

That’s it!!!

Krapfen

ladamache@googlemail.com (LauraAdamache) — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 11:58:00 +0000

Krapfen is a doughnut "born" in Austria. It is made from sweet yeast dough fried in fat or oil, with a marmalade or jam filling and powdered with sugar. The filling is injected using a large syringe after cooking.

Ingredients:

500 g all purpose flour
1 egg
35 g sugar
60 gr butter
250 g ml warm water
35 g fresh yeast or 9 g dry yeast
7 gr salt
grated rind of 1 lemon or orange

Mix the flour with the yeast. (If we use fresh yeast, mix it first with 125 g of warm water, NOT hot, otherwise you "kill" the yeast. If we use dry yeast, mix it with the flour then add 125 ml warm water). Then add the egg, sugar, butter and the lemon grated rind.

When the dough is well formed add the rest of the flour (125 g). Knead for 5-10 minutes, until the dough is smooth and elastic. Let the dough to rest for about 15-30 minutes in a warm place.

After 30 minutes,

roll the dough on a lightly floured board 1 cm thick,

and cut in disks about 8 cm diameter.

Let the doughnuts rise in a warm place for about 2 hours, until double their size.

Fry in deep oil heated for 4 minutes on each side or until browned.

Drain on an absorbent paper and sprinkle with lots of sugar as the doughnuts are not sweet.

Almond Truffles

ladamache@googlemail.com (LauraAdamache) — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 17:24:00 +0000

Ingredients black truffles:

200 gr bittersweet chocolate
100 ml whipping cream
75 gr almond powder (I used the remaining almonds mix from the biancomangiare preparation)
2 tbs brandy/cognac

Ingredients white truffles:

200 gr white chocolate
100 ml whipping cream
75 gr almond powder
2 tbs brandy
vanilla

In the top of a double boiler over hot (not boiling) water, melt the bittersweet chocolate mixed with the whipping cream and the almonds powder. Continue to heat and stir until the mixture is smooth and homogenous. Once the chocolate is entirely smooth, remove the bowl from the heat,

and allow the mixture to cool to room temperature.

When is almost cold add the cognac or brandy and begin to whip the mixture for about 4-5 minutes. After that, put the mixtures in refrigerator for 5 minutes and then whip again.

Repeat this operation 3 times until the color of chocolate became lighter. Like this:

Refrigerate 15 minutes or until mixture is malleable. Roll truffles in chocolate chips and refrigerate until serving.

I made the white truffles all the same and then I rolled them in a mixture of sugar powder and almond powder.

Bring to room temperature before serving.

Biancomangiare

ladamache@googlemail.com (LauraAdamache) — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 16:07:00 +0000

Ingredients:

250 g almond powder
10 g gelatin in sheets
70 gr sugar
300 ml water
100 ml heavy cream

First of all cover the sheets of gelatin with cold water, and let them sit until it softens (about 10 min).

Mix the almond powder with warm water and let it sit for 30 min.

After 30 min. strain them through a strong, finely woven cloth into a bowl, squeezing hard to extract all the milk.

Mix the almonds milk with 100 g of heavy cream.

Squeeze the gelatin sheets, mix it with 6 tablespoons almonds milk and melt them on soft fire.

In a separate pan melt the sugar with the remaining almond milk. After melting, let the milk rest for about 5 min and mix it with the gelatin milk.

Pour into individual bowls greased with almond oil and refrigerate for 2-3 hours.

To serve, dip the bowls upright into hot water, without allowing any water to go over the edge , and carefully invert onto a large plate.

Serve it with caramel sauce and almond flakes.

Braised pork with broccoli

ladamache@googlemail.com (LauraAdamache) — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 17:59:00 +0000

This dish is absolutely amazing!! The meat is so tender after cooking and tastes so good.

Ingredients:

600-700 g pork meat
100 g butter
salt
fresh pepper
water
broccoli

Cut the meat in pieces,

and season with salt and fresh pepper ( white, red and black pepper),

Melt 100 grams of butter in a pan that will accommodate all the meat lying flat.

Brown the meat over gentle heat. Add water to come almost to the top of the meat.

Make sure the meat simmers very gently (use a heat diffuser under the pan) and let cook for about 2 hours.

After 2 hours the meat is so tender and tasty:

Serve with boiled broccoli.

Pears with mandarin caramel

ladamache@googlemail.com (LauraAdamache) — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 20:26:00 +0000

I love fruits and pears are my favorites. This dessert is simple but so delicious.

Ingredients:

4 pears
80 g sugar
1 envelope vanilla sugar
60 g butter
250 g mandarins (we only need their juice)
100 g water
almond flakes

We need 4 large pears, peeled, cored and cut into halfs.

Squeeze mandarin juice and filter it. Melt the butter with sugar and vanilla sugar in a pan.

When you get a golden color (about 5 minutes), add the pears.

Turn the pears from one side to the other and add gradually the mandarin juice.
When they are cooked through we put them on a plate.

Add 100 ml of water to the juice left in the pan and mix with a wooden spoon untill becomes a thicker golden sauce (about 5 minutes on low fire). We put on a plate a few tablespoons of caramel and then the pears.

Powder the pears with almond flakes and serve.