Categoria: Appetizers and snacks

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Salty muffin with zucchini flower

Salty muffin with zucchini flower, good and beautiful receipe!

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Salty muffin with zucchini flower, good and beautiful in dish
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Ricetta: Second Course
Cucina: Italian
Serves: 6
Ingredienti
  • 4 eggs
  • 40 g parmesan cheese
  • 5-6 zucchini flowers
  • salt to taste
  • parsley enough
  • milk as needed
  • 1 clove of garlic
  • extra virgin olive oil to taste
Preparazione
  1. Separate flowers from zucchini
  2. wash them under running water and deprive them of the petiole
  3. Cut into slices zucchini flowers
  4. In a skillet cook with a little oil and garlic zucchini for 15 minutes
  5. The last 5 minutes add the flowers, leaving someone to put on the stencil.
  6. Blend mixture with a little milk and keep aside
  7. In a bowl beat the eggs with the Parmesan cheese and a pinch of salt
  8. Add mixture of zucchini flowers and parsley smoothie
  9. Put into buttered muffin tins
  10. Bake in the oven for 15 minutes at 200 ° C

 

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Salty Biscuits with cooked wheat

Hello everybody! How did you spend the holidays? on Easter Monday we had a wedding! nice! Among other things, it was also our wedding anniversary, so what better place to celebrate it in a castle? Cavernago’s Castle, gorgeous!

How many delicacies and all kinds of finger food! I do not say ….

Talking about the delicacies and drinks for dinner or lunch here is a recipe you will make a great impression. I had the leftover cooked grain of pastiera and I thought we would give the savory biscuits for drinks. The only care is to keep the dough floured because it tends to be sticky.

Just roll into balls and flatten a little and bake to get some delicious cookies! Voilà the recipe:

Salty Biscuits with cooked wheat
 
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Salty Biscuits with cooked wheat, an unusual cookie but a true goodness
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Ricetta: Appetizer
Cucina: Italian
Ingredienti
  • 200 g of cooked wheat
  • 100 g of flour type 00
  • 50 g semolina flour for dusting
  • 1 egg
  • 30 g parmesan cheese
  • 80 g of butter
  • a pinch of salt
Preparazione
  1. Crush the grain with a fork, add the egg, salt and soften everything.
  2. Add the cold butter into small pieces Parmesan cheese and flour.
  3. Knead to a smooth dough
  4. Let rest in the fridge for a half hour
  5. Then proceed to form the cookies
  6. Take a bit of dough, roll into balls and mash, still holding the floured dough with semolina flour.
  7. Bake at 200 ° c for 25 minutes until redden a little.

 

Good week to everybody!!

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tuna and cottage cheese cream

cream of tuna and cottage cheese

Hello everybody!! Today I ‘m going straight to the point, tuna and cottage cheese cream.

This recipe came from when we got married and we started to invite friends and people at dinner.

Let’s say that it is our appetizer opening with a nice Prosecco that has accompanied most of our dinners. Who prepares it?? Only him, my husband that loves appetizer!

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cream of tuna and cottage cheese, an appetizer that accompanies the appetizer simple and quick to prepare
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Ricetta: Appetiser
Cucina: Italian
Serves: 4
Ingredienti
  • 1 pkg. canned tuna 80 g.
  • 180 g. fresh cottage cheese
  • olive oil
Preparazione
  1. In a bowl, place the tuna, cottage cheese and a little olive oil.
  2. Mix everything with a spoon until you get a creamy texture and rustic.
  3. If too dry, softened with the addition of oil.
  4. Put the cream in a bowl of tuna that you like and serve in the center of the table with bread or breadsticks.

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Spelled flatbread with mozzarella

Spelled flatbread with mozzarella

Day has passed, how did you spend the weekend? We’ve brought the child to the petting zoo , we had a blast and the little girl is finally rising about the Dear pony ! She really wanted to go up as well on the horses ! hahaha … Sometimes we want these days ! .

Talking about food , sometimes we have dinner on the small table , just like the previous time where I made  delicious flatbread with herbs . (See here)

The other night , I prepared for the occasion panmozzarella by Luca Montersino, seen on the web, a recipe that has amazing mozzarella dough. By adapting the recipe to my personal taste , I thought we would give some tasty flatbread pan mozzarella .

I made ​​some small changes to the original recipe that did not spoil the result , I didn’t put the dough in the fridge and I made double rise.

Here you are the flatbread pan mozzarella spelled with sesame seeds and poppy :

Spelled flatbread with mozzarella
 
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spelled flatbread with mozzarella with sesame seeds and poppy, fragrant and light to eat them all
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Ricetta: Appetiser
Cucina: Italian
Ingredienti
  • 300 g spelled flour
  • semolina enough for the pastry
  • 120 ml of milk
  • 6 g of yeast (about one third of the cube)
  • 30 g of butter
  • 1 mozzarella 125 g
  • 1 teaspoon salt
  • 1 teaspoon sugar
  • extra virgin olive oil to taste
  • sesame seeds and poppy seeds for garnish
  • coarse salt to taste to the surface
Preparazione
  1. Combine the flour, salt and sugar and place in a fountain.
  2. Dissolve the yeast in a little warm milk and put it in the center of the fountain.
  3. Combine mozzarella in the center previously crushed and pulped to loose remaining water.
  4. Also add butter into small pieces and brought to room temperature.
  5. Combine the remaining milk and mix. Form a homogeneous mixture, flouring from time to time with semolina.
  6. Let rise in warm place for 3-4 hours.
  7. After that wet your hands and flatten the dough with oil.
  8. With a glass forming disks that are arranged in a row on the baking sheet.
  9. Let them rise again for another hour.
  10. Then again with wet hands for oil, mash them lightly with your fingertips making small little holes, sprinkle with sesame and poppy seeds and bake at 200 ° C for 215 minutes approximately.

This dose will be about 10-15, depending on the size that you want to give.

I was thinking  to freeze some, however it was not possible!

Their  fragrance is amazing! ciaoooo

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Omelette with turnip tops

Omelet with turnip tops

Ciaooo! How are you getting? Here it’s always raining … uff!

Talking about food, today I cooked a receipe of my mom’s family: The omelette with turnip greens.

My grandmother, in Abruzzo, often made ​​this and It was often cooked by my aunts  now. My grandmother had lots of peaks that grew in the garden. I remember my aunt told me that she always put it in the middle of the sandwich and eat at lunch in the factory, when she still lived in Torino di Sangro, the birthplace of my mother.

A simple omelette, full of flavor and memories:

Omelet with turnip tops
 
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Omelet with turnip tops recipe from family tradition. Handed down from mother Abruzzo
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Ricetta: Second Course
Cucina: Italian
Ingredienti
  • 5 eggs
  • 1 bunch of turnip tops
  • 60 g of grated cheese
  • parsley as much as necessary
  • salt as much as necessary
  • extra virgin olive oil
  • 1 clove of garlic
Preparazione
  1. Wash the tops and remove the outer leaves.
  2. Cut them into pieces.
  3. In a pan fry with a little oil a clove of garlic
  4. Combine the tops, a little salt and cook for a half hour, adding water if necessary.
  5. Beat the eggs with the cheese, parsley and a pinch of salt, pour the mixture over the vegetables and cook for 5 minutes, then flip it over and cook another 5
  6. minutes on the other side.

Well … how my aunt did, I put it  a slice a sandwich in the sandwitch.

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Savory Crampets with potatoes peel

Savory pancakes with potato peel

Today’s recipe is a little full of carnival, as we make the Crampets. These  are a little different, first of all because they are with salt and potato peel.

I know that the web revolves recipes with potato peel, but that one could use in the kitchen know long. One day a few years ago, entering the house of my mother-in-law at lunchtime, I see her  handling these peels asked her “Do you cook it”??? She had just fried like potato chips, today I propose in the batter: Savory pancakes with potatoes peel

Savory pancakes with potatoes peel
 
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Savory pancakes with peel potatoes, a side dish or appetizer for the poor that is enjoyed by all
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Ricetta: Appetiser
Cucina: Italian
Ingredienti
  • Peel 5 medium potatoes
  • 1 egg
  • 6 tablespoons of flour
  • milk as much as necessary
  • a pinch of salt
  • nutmeg as much as necessary
  • olive oil
Preparazione
  1. Wash thoroughly with baking potatoes, peel the skin leaving a little thick, so that there is still a bit of potato attached.
  2. Prepare the batter with egg and flour, adding a little milk at a time until you have a compound rather dense.
  3. Add salt a little and add a pinch of nutmeg.
  4. Heat a little olive oil, dip the peels in the batter and place in pan. Turn over after two minutes and drain them when they become beautiful red.
  5. Add salt to taste and eat them hot immediately

The portion is for 4 people, but if you’re fond of two fairies out! ciaoooooo

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Puglia bagels with kamut flour homemade

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Taralli pugliesi or Puglia bagels with kamut flour. Tarallo is a kind of bagel from Southern Italy.

Do you remember the stocking of the Epiphany??? My daughter wants the bagels and so I decided to make them homemade! it was easy, turning between cookbooks paper and web, here is the recipe. I decided to do it with kamut flour, since I love it, Taralli pugliesi or Puglia bagels with kamut flour:

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Puglia bagels with kamut flour homemade of course, home made, with the lightness of kamut flour.
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Ricetta: Appetizer
Cucina: Italian
Ingredienti
  • 250 g of flour Kamut
  • 100 ml white wine (prosecco for me)
  • 65 ml of oil
  • 1 teaspoon salt
Preparazione
  1. Add the salt to the flour
  2. Place a mound in the center,joint the oil, and then begin to knead with wine.Form a homogeneous mixture, cover with plastic wrap and let it rest a half hour.
  3. After Try to form cylinders of about 4 cm long and close.
  4. Spread on a floured surface to line up all the bagels prepared.
  5. Boil the water and put the bagels, when they come to surface they are ready.
  6. Drain them and put them on a plate and let them dry.
  7. Place them on a baking sheet and bake at 200 ° C for 20 minutes
Note
with these doses prepare two baking sheets, about forty bagels

Oh my mom .. I go to see Masterchef!! You follow it?  What do you think? kisses Kisses

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Little Baskets of puff pastry cauliflower and smoked cheese

Baskets of puff pastry cauliflower and smoked cheese

How are you? here quite well ! I give the STOP to desserts and plenty of space to  “normal” kitchen, as you can see . We have a house full of panettone to finish , biscuits and chocolates galore … aiutoooo ! In the blog there will be more ‘ light recipes , I promise!

Another recipe with puff pastry. It was made ​​with puff pastry, cauliflower and smoked cheese.

Baskets of puff pastry cauliflower and smoked cheese
 
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Baskets of puff pastry cauliflower and smoked cheese, easy appetizer or side receipe light and delicate.
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Ricetta: Appetiser
Cucina: Italian
Ingredienti
  • a roll of puff pastry
  • half boiled cauliflower
  • 6 slices of smoked cheese
Preparazione
  1. Clean and cut cauliflower
  2. Blanch twenty minutes in salted water
  3. Cut the puff pastry with which we are going to cover the molds for muffins
  4. Drizzle with a little oil half 'of cooked cauliflower
  5. Put it in the baskets of pastry crushing it a bit with a fork and break up over the scamorza
  6. inform at 200 ° C for 15 minutes.

 

Baskets of puff pastry cauliflower and smoked cheese

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hot appetizer of sea

hot appetizer of sea with tosted bread

We are running out ! Just a few days to Christmas ! Are you ready ? Today I propose a recipe  that we always do at New Year’s Eve when we have guests, but also just for us!It  was a discovery of my husband, he invented it . He decided to put it all in a pan over high heat and then He completely forgot it ,he  opened the bottle , he chatted with guests , he’s’ gone around the house and who has edited this appetizer . ? ? myself of course! hahaha … He tenderly calls it “little appetizer ” of warm sea, here it is: hot appetizer of sea.

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hot appetizer of sea, to start with the taste of the sea in the mouth
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Ricetta: Appetiser
Cucina: Italian
Ingredienti
  • 250 g of squid rings
  • 250 g shrimp
  • 250 g of cuttlefish
  • 350 g of tomato puree
  • extra virgin olive oil
  • 1 clove of garlic
  • 1 onion
  • parsley as much as necessary
  • chili as much as necessary
  • a basil leaf
  • salt as much as necessary
Preparazione
  1. Sauté with a little olive oil a clove of garlic and sliced onion .
  2. Then add the tomato puree , salt , add a basil leaf and a pinch of red pepper ( fresh is best ) in this case it is good to cook it with the garlic and onion .
  3. Cook the sauce for 30 minutes on low heat making it shrink a little .
  4. At this point, add the fish previously cleaned and rinsed under running water.
  5. Sprinkle with parsley , season with salt and deglaze with white wine.
  6. Cook for 20-25 minutes to form a creamy sauce , if necessary , during cooking , stretch with a drop of water or vegetable broth better.
  7. At this point we're ready! Serve on toasted bread.

Today in my parents’ house I found a little book of jokes!.One joke a  day keeps the doctor away (well and truly’ apple pear ‘does nothing) … hahaha
This booklet found out my daughter, took us to Picasso. I liked it so much that I decided to take him home.
ahahha …. I greet you now, I’m going to read some jokes! there are beautiful! byebye and Happy Sunday!

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Patties Pumpkin

Patties Pumpkin

Today I propose a recipe that can be part of the Christmas appetizers: pumpkin cupcakes.

TO you:

Patties Pumpkin
 
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Patties Pumpkin, sweet and salty
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Ricetta: Appetizer
Cucina: Italian
Ingredienti
  • 200 g pumpkin flesh
  • 100 g ricotta
  • 40 g of grated cheese
  • 30 g of bread crumbs
  • parsley as baasta
  • salt to bast
  • 1 egg
  • a pinch of nutmeg
  • extra virgin olive oil
Preparazione
  1. Steam or roast the flesh of the pumpkin
  2. Mash with a fork together with ricotta
  3. salt
  4. Add egg, cheese, grated bread, nutmeg and parsley.
  5. Mix well until a homogeneous mixture.
  6. Oleare muffin molds and puta little of the mixture
  7. Bake at 180 ° C for 20 minutes

I’m tired, it was a tough day.

With the holidays I will rest.?!?!?!. Greetings to all, meanwhile, now I look backoff reply, let’s see how it is! hello hello….

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Little basket of bresaola carpaccio with parmesan and fennel

Basket of bresaola carpaccio with parmesan and fennel

Here’s a dish that could be part of an Christmas appetizer: a basket of dried beef carpaccio with parmesan and fennel and generous shavings of grana padano, voilà:

Basket of bresaola carpaccio with parmesan and fennel
 
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Basket of bresaola carpaccio with parmesan and fennel, Tasty and particularly enriched with fennel.
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Ricetta: Appetiser
Cucina: Italian
Ingredienti
for the basket of grain:
  • 80 g of grated cheese
Inside:
  • fennel sliced
  • 3 slices of bresaola
  • extra virgin olive oil
  • grana padano cheese
  • pepper as much as necessity
Preparazione
  1. Preheat a non-stick pan, sprinkle the base with grated cheese and wait for a minute to melt and combine.
  2. Lift the edges and remove from the heat, immediately place it upside down on a bowl and let it cool.
  3. Meanwhile, cut and serve with a drizzle of olive oil fennel and dried beef.
  4. Take out the trash, lean over rosettes of bresaola, and beautify healthy alongside the fennel and shaved parmesan cheese.
  5. Sprinkle with pepper and serve.

 

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Voulevant stuffed with cream of mushroom

Voulevant stuffed with cream of mushroomi

Here I am with my custom voulevant!! I know that I will open a special address book so much I love them.

We are also the perfect Christmas theme, because they are great to be presented with a small appetizer.The version that I propose today is the cream of mushroom!

Voulevant stuffed with cream of mushroom
 
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Voulevant stuffed with cream of mushroom. The flavor of the wood, creamy and warm
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Ricetta: Appetiser
Cucina: Italian
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Preparazione
  1. Sauté the chopped shallots and garlic with a little oil, add the mushrooms, sprinkle with parsley and a pinch of salt, cook for half an hour sfumandoli with white wine.
  2. When cooked, blend them in a blender with the cream.
  3. Bake in preheated oven voulevant at 200 ° C for 10 minutes and fill them with mushrooms cream, Sprinkle with marjoram
  4. Serve with the creamy sauce is still warm

So tired! Today full day with the housework! The frenzy of these festivals is a little disorienting me .. well …. a salute to all those who pass by here and Good Sunday

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