Tag: aperitif

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Biscuits salty nuts pine nuts

Hola people! You do not need me to tell you, but … just water!! damn!

However, to get us out the other night I thought I’d make some savory biscuits at a fantastic appetizer that was waiting for us at the home of cousins.

In truth the meeting and It was also profitable.

Returning to the recipe, these cookies are perfect for a cocktail, I made them with spelled flour and were lighter. To you the recipe:

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Biscuits salty nuts and pine nuts, good to accompany the aperitif
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Ricetta: Appetiser
Cucina: Italian
Ingredienti
  • 250 g spelled flour
  • 70 g of cheese
  • half a teaspoon of salt
  • 1 teaspoon baking powder
  • 100 g of butter
  • 1 egg
  • 30 g pine nuts
  • 50 g walnuts
  • 20 ml of milk
Preparazione
  1. Combine the salt, baking powder and cheese to the flour and mix.
  2. Making the fountain in the center and add the egg and the butter.
  3. Begin to mix and then add the finely chopped nuts previously and tie the whole with a little milk.
  4. Form a homogeneous mixture and let stand for half an hour.
  5. Finally roll it out and cut into discs.
  6. Typing it in the center of a pine nut as decoration.
  7. Bake 10-12 minutes at 180 ° C

Hello to everybody and see you soon!

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Dried beef dumplings and rice

Here’s a new post! Very simple to do, a different idea for an appetizer or a second fresh and light!

This recipe is flashed to my mind yesterday while we were having a quiet walk on the river Adda! I did last night for dinner.

On the river Adda beautiful landscape: drizzle, fishing, geese and swans!
How beautiful is the rain in the summer!

Voila the recipe, dried beef dumplings and rice:

Dried beef dumplings and rice
 
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Dried beef dumplings and rice. Simple, fresh and tasty
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Ricetta: Second Course
Cucina: Italian
Serves: 2
Ingredienti
  • 100 g of dried beef
  • 2 handfuls of rice
  • some cherry tomatoes
  • black olives
  • oregano parsley to taste
  • salt to taste
  • extra virgin olive oil
  • chives to tie bundles
Preparazione
  1. Boil the rice in salted water
  2. Cut the tomatoes into small pieces
  3. Combine the chopped olives, salt and drizzle with olive oil, parsley and oregano.
  4. Drain the rice, mix it with cherry tomatoes and olives and mix.
  5. Take three slices of bresaola, approach them, put a couple of tablespoons in the center, close to the center and tie with a little 'of chives.
  6. Arrange on a serving dish, prepare and decorate with grated parmesan cheese.

See you soon!Bye..bye..

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Sweet and Sour Zucchini

This is  receipe of my husband’s mother. I know this receipe since I was engaged with my husband! Very yummy and healthy:

Sweet and Sour Zucchini
 
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Sweet and Sour Zucchini, made ​​with the family recipe
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Ricetta: Appetiser
Cucina: Italian
Ingredienti
  • 500 g zucchini
  • half a tablespoon of salt
  • half a tablespoon of sugar
  • half a cup of vinegar
  • 1 cup of olive oil
  • 1 small onion
  • basil to taste
Preparazione
  1. Cut the zucchini into thin slices, wash them.
  2. Combine all liquids, basil and onion in a pan, add the zucchini and simmer for 10-15 minutes.
  3. Pot into sterilized jars and boil for 5 minutes.
  4. Let them cool in their water.

 

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Basket cheese crust

Basket cheese crust

Hello everybody! Here is a  simply preparation that  has a big effect: Here is the  the basket cheese crust :

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Basket cheese crust, an easy way to decorate and enrich and spectacular dishes
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Ricetta: Appetiser
Cucina: Italian
Ingredienti
  • grated cheese to taste
Preparazione
  1. Warm a non-stick pan and cover the bottom with a thin layer of grated cheese.
  2. Melt the cheese until just barely see him flushed and combined. (Be careful not to burn it and if you see little holes, do nothing will be the special and you can not avoid them)
  3. Remove the pan from the heat and, before it cools completely, unplug the hard cheese from the bottom of the pan, being careful not to burn yourself, and that remains whole. (You can help with a kitchen spatula).
  4. Lay the disc of cheese over a cup upside down, trying to make it stick to the sides without breaking it so that, once cooled completely, take the irregular shape of a drum.

Turn it upside down and fill in  what you prefere.

Have fun.
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Rosti purple carrots

Rosti purple carrots

Hello Everybody, today it’ the daddy day, I take this opportunity to wish all the dads given that today was their party! I have not had time to prepare any sweet treat for the occasion, but the web was full of fantastic donuts that surely will try.

Me and my baby we gave dad a beautiful design!

Talking  of FOOD, today I will post a quick but tasty recipe with purple carrots . Yes, since I discovered them,I did not give up more and after doing these, I propose today in a rosti version.Delicious.:

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Rosti purple carrots, and particularly tasty.
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Ricetta: Side dish
Cucina: Italian
Ingredienti
  • 5 purple carrots
  • 2 tablespoons of flour
  • salt to taste
  • olive oil
Preparazione
  1. Wash and clean the carrots scratching the outside
  2. Grate and place in a bowl
  3. Season with salt and add a little flour
  4. Stir
  5. Heat oil in a frying pan as
  6. Moisten your hands and form small heaps round well with the carrots and cook them in very hot oil. turning them every so often
  7. Cook a little, about 5 minutes,they will soon reach the crispness and attention because they burn quickly
  8. Add salt to the surface
Note
The doses are approximately two people and considering going like hot cakes tripled the dose!

byebye

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Octopus salad with crispy potatoes

Octopus salad with crispy potatoes

Hello everybody! The Carnival is over! Now for a little bit just fried .. Today I propose the octopus salad, a simple but favolous recipe that I love to eat on every occasions. For changing a little bit instead of putting boiled potatoes I preferes to make them crispy, a detail that even if a small part it makes the  difference …

Octopus salad with crispy potatoes
 
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Octopus salad with crispy potatoes, an alternative to the classic recipe
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Ricetta: Second Course
Cucina: Italian
Serves: 4
Ingredienti
  • 1 medium-size octopus
  • 1 carrot
  • 2 potatoes
  • 1 stalk of celery
  • a glass of white wine
  • extra virgin olive oil
  • olives
  • some cherry tomatoes
Preparazione
  1. Take the octopus, rinse under cold water, clean it (in the head, on the back where the little hole and the two eyes)
  2. Take a large pot, fill it with cold water, add the carrot celery potato, a drop of wine and a drizzle of extra virgin olive oil.
  3. Bring to a boil and cook for an hour and a half.
  4. Allow to cool octopus in its cooking water. Drain, peel it and make it into cubes.
  5. Put it in a bowl along with the tomatoes and olives. Drizzle with olive oil, season with salt and sprinkle with parsley.
  6. Meanwhile, cut a potato into small cubes and roast it with a little 'oil.
  7. Serve the octopus salad with small dice of potato crisp


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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!

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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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Pretzels puff pastry

Just for an aperitif with my ​​husband, here is another invention to propose in a buffet pretzels puff pastry:

Pretzels puff pastry
 
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Pretzels puff pastry for a good aperitif, sweet tooth in no time
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Ricetta: Appetizer
Ingredienti
  • half a roll of puff pastry fresh
  • salt
  • aromas
Preparazione
  1. Roll out the pastry and small molds, forming small stars and little hearts, the rods, so on and so forth.
  2. Sprinkle with a little salt, oregano or rosemary.
  3. Bake at 200 ° C for 5 minutes, until they begin to brown.

It might be an idea for a drink without too much bingeing, however, one leads to another! byebye

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