Wednesday 28 October 2015

Monsters of pumpkin and chocolate

We couldn't end up these proposals for Halloween without one sweet, and what better than these hilarious monsters of pumpkin and chocolate. It is best that having mousse texture, not heavy.



Ingredients for 2 persons:
- 7 oz pumpkin
- 16 chocolate cookies
- 2 egg whites
- 3 egg yolks
- 3.5 oz of whipping cream
- 2 oz sugar
- 0.3 oz of powdered gelatin
- 2 marshmallows
- Cinnamon
- Chocolate cream (I used a pastry flavored chocolate pencils that I bought in the supermarket)

Recipe:
- Peel the pumpkin, cut into pieces and put it to cook in boiling water until tender.
- In a glass suitable for blender, beat it with 3.5 oz of water, sugar and a little cinnamon.
- In a separate bowl, beat egg yolks with cream.
- Add it to the pumpkin mixture.
- Sprinkle the gelatin in a little water and stir until dissolved and pour over the mix we already had.
- Keep it in the refrigerator.
- Chop the biscuits into small pieces using a grinder or a mortar.
- Using a whisk, beat the egg whites to stiff peaks.
- Add it to the bowl we had in the fridge and start serving into a large glass.
- Put some mousse, crushed crackers and a little mousse again.
- To form the face put one marshmallow in each eye and the chocolate pastry pencil to form the pupil and then the mouth.

Bon appetit!

Tuesday 27 October 2015

Mummies of sausages

Our second proposal for Halloween are these funny mummies made of sausages, very easy to make and very original.



Ingredients for 4 mummies:
- 4 large sausages 
- 1/2 sheet of dough breeze
- Ketchup

Recipe:
- Cut dough into strips and calculate you will need 3-4 for each sausage.
- Using a knife cut one end of one of the sausages to simulate the legs and make two cuts on the sides for the arms. In other sausages do not make the cuts, so you have two different mummies as image.
- Roll the strips of dough around irregularly shaped sausage leaving a hole for the face.
- Bake for 15min at 220° until golden.
- Let it cool and with the tip of a knife make the eyes with drops of ketchup.

Bon appetit!

Monday 26 October 2015

Halloween starters

This week we want to make some very funny proposals to prepare in Halloween, today we start with two starters, but stay tuned during the week, we have two more dishes!

Ingredients and recipe of witch's brooms (6 pcs):



- 6 salted pretzel sticks
- 3 square slices of gouda cheese
- 6 sheets of chives

- Cut the slices of gouda cheese in half and use each for a broom.
- Start cut fringed broom vertically with a knife (remember to start cutting from the middle, not the whole piece).
- Wrap cheese around the pretzel stick and secure it lightly with chives.


Ingredients and recipe of pumpkin cream with spider web (2 units):



- 7 oz of pumpkin
- 1/2 leek
- 1 potato
- 1 carrot
- 1 tomato
- Olive oil
- Salt
- Black pepper
- Cooking cream

- Cut into squares tomato and carrot and leek into slices.
- Fry in a pan with a little olive oil.
- Peel the pumpkin and cut into squares.
- Add it to the pan and pour a little water to cook until tender for about 30 minutes.
- Whisk on a vessel suitable for mixer until you have a smooth cream.
- If it's too thick you can add a little water to make it lighter.
- Serve and pour over a trickle of cream forming two concentric circles.
- Start the spider web form by placing a toothpick in the center and drag out.


Bon appetit!

Thursday 22 October 2015

Pork tenderloins with paprika


Today's recipe is very grateful, because this sauce is good with almost any meat, all will be rich!

Ingredients for 2 servings:
- 10.6 oz of pork tenderloins
- 1 clove of garlic
- 1 stock cube of chicken broth
- 2.4 oz of white wine
- 1 teaspoon of paprika
- 3.5 oz of of evaporated milk
- Chopped parsley
- Black pepper
- Olive oil

Recipe:
- Peel and cut the garlic in foils and fry over medium heat in a skillet with a little olive oil.
- Add the pork fillets, sprinkle a little pepper and let cook until golden.
- Reserve the tenderloins.
- In the same pan, pour the white wine and let evaporate the alcohol.
- Crumble the stock cube and add it, stirring well to be integrated.
- Pour the evaporated milk and paprika and stir again.
- Add the fillets and let cook two minutes all together.
- Serve and sprinkle some chopped parsley on top for garnish.

Bon appetit!

Tuesday 20 October 2015

Cinnamon mug cake (gluten free)


Today's recipe is ideal for having something sweet homemade for breakfast when you don't have too much time, in 3 minutes you have ready your cake, and is a recipe suitable for celiacs!

Ingredients for one mug cake:
- 4 tablespoons of flour without gluten
- 2 tablespoons of brown sugar
- 1 tablespoon of semi-skimmed milk
- 2 tablespoons of yogurt
- 1 teaspoon of vanilla extract
- 1/4 teaspoon of cinnamon

For topping:
- 2 tablespoons of icing sugar
- 1 tbsp of yogurt
- 1 tablespoon of milk
- Cinnamon

Recipe:
- Mix in the cup the flour without gluten, brown sugar, milk, yogurt, vanilla and cinnamon.
- Stir until you have a smooth dough.
- Cook in the microwave for 2 minutes at 800W.
- Meanwhile, prepare the topping by mixing in a bowl the icing sugar, yogurt, milk and cinnamon to taste.
- Stir it well and pour over cake.

Bon appetit!

Monday 19 October 2015

Sole rolls with zucchini and prosciutto


Today's recipe is an original way to eat fish, and is made by steaming, so it's very healthy!

Ingredients for 2 servings:
- 4 fillets of sole 
- 4 slices of prosciutto
- 4 slices of zucchini sliced lengthwise
- 1/2 tomato
- Chopped parsley

Recipe:
- Wash and cut the zucchini slices along using a potato peeler.
- Put the fillets of sole, on the top put a slice of zucchini and other of prosciutto.
- Roll up and secure with the help of a stick.
- Steam for 10 minutes.
- Wash and cut the tomatoes into thin wedges.
- Serve the rolls and place the tomato for garnish.

Bon appetit!

Thursday 15 October 2015

Meatballs with mushroom sauce


This recipe is an original version of the classic meatballs, mushrooms give an original flavor!

Ingredients for 2 servings:
- 10.6 oz of mixed minced meat
- 1/2 chopped garlic
- 1 egg
- Chopped parsley
- 1 tablespoon of breadcrumbs
- Black pepper
- Salt
- Flour
- Olive oil
- 7 oz of assorted mushrooms
- 1 cube of beef broth
- 3.4 oz of evaporated milk
- 1 dash of white wine

Recipe:
- Mix in a bowl the minced meat with chopped garlic, egg, parsley, breadcrumbs and a pinch of salt and pepper.
- Stir until all ingredients are well blended.
- Start to give shape to the meatballs and pass them through flour.
- In a skillet with a little olive oil, fry them until golden.
- Put them on absorbent paper to remove excess oil and set aside.
- Peel, cut into sheets and fry garlic in a pan with a little oil.
- When browned, add the mushrooms and stir from time to time, until browned.
- Pour the white wine and let the alcohol evaporate for a few minutes.
- Crumble the stock cube and add it.
- Finally, pour the evaporated milk and add the meatballs.
- Let it simmer for 10 minutes.

Bon appetit!

Tuesday 13 October 2015

Small boats of spicy potatoes


This recipe is a modern version of spicy potatoes, such a typical serving of Madrid. We love it!

Ingredients for 6 pcs:
- 2 large potatoes
- Olive oil
- 1 clove of garlic
- 1/2 spicy red pepper
- 1 teaspoon of paprika 
- 1/4 cup of white wine
- 3.4 oz of tomato sauce
- 6 tablespoons of mayonnaise

Recipe:
- Wash and peel the potatoes.
- Cut into three pieces of 3 fingers high approx.
- Using a scooper, empty the center of the potato pieces but not to the background.
- Fry them for 20 minutes in a pot with olive oil (the cover) over medium-low heat to glaze.
- While the potatoes are frying, you can do the sauce.
- Peel, cut the garlic in slices and fry them in a pan with a little oil.
- When they start to brown, add the spicy red pepper cut into small pieces.
- Take it back a moment from the heat, add the paprika, stir well to mix it and pour the white wine quickly so that the paprika does not burn.
- Put back on fire, let reduce a little broth and add the tomato sauce.
- Whisk all using a mixer until you have an uniform cream.
- Drain the potatoes and remove excess of oil with paper towels.
- Place in a bottle the spicy sauce and the mayonnaise in another one and fill the holes of the small boats of potato at the same time, so that half fill each with every sauce.
- Move the sauces in circles using a toothpick to make the presentation more original.

Bon appetit!

Thursday 8 October 2015

Homemade sushi


Today we have dared to make this Japanese recipe, because we love sushi. It's a bit laborious but worth it, overcome challenge! ;-)

Ingredients:
- 9 oz of special rice for sushi
- 12 oz of of water
- 2 tablespoons of vinegar of rice
- 1 tablespoon of sugar
- 1 pinch of salt
- 1 fresh salmon loin
- 2 loins of sole
- 1 egg
- 3 sheets of nori seaweed
- 1/2 cucumber
- 1/4 avocado
- 3 crab sticks
- Sesame seeds
- Soja sauce

Recipe for rice:
- Wash the special sushi rice 3 times in cold water to remove the starch.
- In a pot with cold water, put the rice to boil over medium-high heat until the water starts to boil.
- Then reduce the heat and boil during 15 minutes or until rice has absorbed all the water. Put the lid on the pot throughout the process.
- Once the rice is cooked, let stand off the heat but in the pot for 5 minutes.
- Mix in a bowl two tablespoons of rice vinegar, sugar and a pinch of salt (do not throw too much, because after we eat the sushi with soy sauce, which is already salt itself).
- Add the rice and stir well so that everything is well mixed with vinegar.


Recipe for maki and california rolls*:
- Spread the rice in a pan with a layer of film over and allow to cool (you can speed up the process a little fanning).
- Place a bamboo placemat to make sushi, placed above a layer of film over and nori (shiny side in).
- Spread a layer of rice above the surface of seaweed, leaving on the end 1 cm unfilled. Do not put too thickly, because then the roll will be too big.
- Put over the stuffed salmon, avocado, cucumber and crab.
- Start rolling with the help of bamboo placemat and the film to form the roll.
- Cut the roll into 6-8 pieces of equal thickness.

*For the california rolls the process is the same but changing the order of rice and seaweed: you need to put a layer of rice, seaweed and after, the filling.

Recipe for Niguiris:
- Take a small ball of rice with your hands and mold it until you have the elongated shape.
- Make a thin omelette, without bending it, to be of a single layer.
- Cut the salmon, sole and omelette strips the same as the rice ball and place on top.

All accompanied with a little soy sauce. If you like, I can also do wasabi and ginger, but not essential.

Bon appetit!

Tuesday 6 October 2015

Spaghetti with pesto sauce gluten free


Today we have prepared this dish of spaghetti with pesto sauce without gluten that Schär brand has sent us, because they are specialized in gluten-free products, with a wide variety of them that you can see and buy comfortably on their website.

Ingredients for 2 servings:
- 7 oz of spaghetti gluten free
- 1.8 oz of fresh basil
- 3.5 oz of fried almonds
- 1 clove of garlic
- Salt
- Olive oil

Recipe:
- Cut into small pieces using a grinder the basil, almonds and garlic.
- Add olive oil until it covers the above mixture and stir a few seconds to mix well.
- Boil the spaghetti for 10-12 minutes.
- Drain and mix them with the sauce.

Bon appetit!

Monday 5 October 2015

Salmon tartare


We love today's recipe, is very rich, light and very fast to do, just perfect!

Ingredients for 2 servings:
- 1 fresh salmon loin 
- 1 egg
- 1 tablespoon of capers
- 3 units of crab sticks
- 1/4 of onion
- 1/4 of cucumber
- Black pepper
- Paprika
- 3 tablespoons of mayonnaise
- 1 tablespoon of mustard

Recipe:
- Cook the egg in boiling water for 10 minutes.
- Cut into squares egg, crab sticks, onion and cucumber.
- Cut the tenderloin salmon into slices, reserve one for decorating above and the other also cut into squares.
- Add the capers, mayonnaise and mustard and mix well.
- Sprinkle 1/2 teaspoon of paprika and a pinch of black pepper and mix again.
- Serve using a metal ring and garnish with a slice of salmon that we had reserved.

Bon appetit!

Thursday 1 October 2015

Zucchini pancakes

Do you want a healthy and original snack? This recipe is perfect, very tasty and healthy at the same time, ideal for kids who doesn't want to eat vegetables!

Ingredients for 4 pancakes:
- 5.29 oz of zucchini
- 1.05 oz of Emmental cheese
- 1 egg
- 1 tablespoon of cornstarch
- Chopped parsley
- Salt
- Pepper


Recipe:
- Wash and grate the zucchini with a grater. Leave it in a colander for half an hour or so for all the water to drain well.
- In a large bowl beat the egg, add a little salt, pepper, chopped parsley, flour corn, zucchini and grated Emmental cheese and stir until everything is well mixed.
- In a small skillet, pour a few drops of olive oil and take two large spoonfuls.
- Let nicely browned, then turn it with a silicone spatula.
- Pour a few drops of oil every time you are going to make a new pancake.

Bon appetit!