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Apple Pie with red fruits

Apple Pie with red fruits

Here I am again! The time it leaves us a bit of rain and I turn the oven to console me! To tell the truth it’s a bit I wanted to do one of my cakes, that is, those I prefer, which are of this kind, cakes pies type short.

The apple pie, typical American cake par excellence, it is excellent both as a breakfast or as a sweet treat after dinner.

I decided to make a remake ti the brisè, I add sweet red fruits. We liked it a lot! Here is the recipe, apple pie with red berries:

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Apple Pie with red fruits, typical American Pie revisited with a touch of color.
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Ricetta: Dessert
Cucina: American
Ingredienti
For the pasta brisa
  • 300 g of flour type 00
  • 120 g of butter
  • 150 ml of cold water
  • 50 g of sugar cane
  • 100 g of red fruits
  • milk for brushing the surface
For the filling
  • 600 g apples
  • 1 knob of butter
  • rum to taste
  • 20 g of sugar
  • cinnamon to taste
Preparazione
  1. Peel the apples and cut into chunks.
  2. Brown them for a quarter of an hour with a knob of butter, sugar and cinnamon, blending with a dash of rum.
  3. Meanwhile, prepare the shortcrust pastry:
  4. Place the flour, add sugar and cold butter in the middle and begin to knead adding cold water and red fruits.
  5. Form a homogeneous mixture and let it rest in the fridge for half an hour.
  6. At this point, spread half of the mixture into a baking pan lined with parchment paper.
  7. Combine the stuffing and close with the same dough.
  8. Drill cuttings to the surface with milk.
  9. Dusting of sugar and inform at 200 ° C for the first twenty minutes, then lower to 180 ° C for another 20-25 minutes

Now I greet you! kisses Kisses

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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.:

Rosti purple carrots
 
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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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Three chocolate cake

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Hello, I started this post to propose it for Mom’s birthday. I make again the three chocolate cake with the right technique that is with transparency instead of baking paper.

Here it is even more elegant and refined for the second time, for sixty-five mom !

This time I did things as they should and I bought the transparency with which I then lined the pan and garnish it came perfect. This time I wanted to decorate it with chocolate plastic roses , of which I will post soon the recipe. I must say that every time is exciting and fresh every time this hits !

A big name like that of Ernst Knam and her wonderful cake that they could not conquer me . In the just- passed edition of ” Bake off Italy ,” as I saw that wonderful cake I fell in love!

This cake was made by the famous Montersino , comparing the two recipes I decided to make the base of Montersino , while the mousse Knam .

It ‘s my favorite , I could not resist it when I saw the edition of Bake off sweets.

Three chocolate cake:

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Three chocolate cake Ernest Knam, exquisite, delicate and creamy. To force is known, is very good
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Ricetta: Dessert
Cucina: Italian
Ingredienti
For the base:
  • 3 eggs
  • 95 g of sugar
  • 30 g of cocoa powder
For the dark chocolate mousse
  • 250 g of dark chocolate
  • 2 g of gelatin sheets
  • 1 egg yolk
  • 20 ml of milk
  • 250 ml of fresh cream
For the milk chocolate mousse
  • Same as above 3 g gelatin sheets
For the white chocolate mousse
  • As above but 4 g gelatin sheets
Preparazione
  1. First, line a regular pan and preheat the oven to 190 ° C
  2. Prepare the base
  3. Beat the egg whites with the sugar and then add the egg yolks .
  4. Add the cocoa and whip together until the mixture is smooth
  5. Bake at 190 ° C for 10 minutes
  6. Then remove from oven and let cool.
  7. Take a mold for a cake or mousse and make the base with this form
  8. Place the base on the bottom.
  9. Line the mold with acetate .
  10. Begin to prepare the chocolate mousse .
  11. Melt the chocolate in a double boiler , in the meantime, soak the gelatin in cold water and dissolve in 20ml of milk, warm milk ( heat it up a little and then immediately turn off the heat , careful not boil the milk otherwise ruin the gelatin )
  12. Whip the cream .
  13. Allow to cool and add to the melted chocolate all over the yolk and gelatin , then the whipped cream. Mix well with a whisk and pour the mixture over the base. Place in freezer for 30 minutes.
  14. Prepare the milk chocolate mousse :
  15. The same method of dark chocolate , the only thing is that the gelatin becomes 3 g . Pull out the mold from the freezer and pour the second moves. Put in the freezer for 30 minutes
  16. Now prepare the white chocolate mousse :
  17. Same procedure as the other two chocolates , but the jelly is 4 g .
  18. Remove the mold from the freezer and pour the mousse last . Put in the freezer for half an hour .
  19. After this time remove the cake from the freezer and put it in the fridge.
  20. Before you draw it I left a few hours in the fridge. Then I leave you to pick any decorations.

Notes: The acetate is not the real pastry, but just go into stationery, with a few cents you buy a couple of sheets and with a little ingenuity you cover the springform pan and you’ve done.

Still happy birthday mom!!!!

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Pork loin with cream

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Hello guys! Today’s recipe is not new but it has already done and put on the site Donnaecasa when the blog was not yet born.

Therefore I propose again the blog version:

Pork loin with cream
 
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Pork loin with cream , creamy and really enjoy to children
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Ricetta: Second course
Cucina: Italian
Serves: 3
Ingredienti
  • 300 g of Pork loin
  • 250 ml of fresh cream
  • enough flour
  • salt and pepper to taste
  • 1 shallot
  • marjoram and sage to taste
  • extra virgin olive oil
  • white wine to taste
Preparazione
  1. Finely chop the shallot and fry with a little oil in a frying pan.
  2. Combine the pork loin previously floured, herbs and deglaze with white wine
  3. Continue cooking, adding the cream. If the cream ends and it'is not quite finished cooking add a little milk.
  4. Bake for about 45 minutes
  5. Serve with a sprinkling of pepper.

 

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Canederli with spinach

Canederli with spinach

Hello! how are you? …

Today I propose a succulent receipe of Trentino: Canederli with spinach .

Today’s version is spinach, but don’ let these screens because soon there will be bacon, the most classic.

The canederli are dumplings of bread, if you can call it typical of the Trentino alto Adige, which are cooked in the broth and then can be served with the soup itself, or with melted cheese, as in this case, or rather with melted butter, my favorites.

Both versions of the recipe was given to me by a friend who cooks them often and that a long long time ago kindly invited us to eat  with her, and she “kindly” gave us the recipe:

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Canederli with spinach, a typical dish of the region Trentino alto Adige topped with cream cheese
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Ricetta: First Course
Cucina: Italian
Ingredienti
  • a couple of generous handfuls of spinach
  • 1 clove of garlic
  • salt to taste
  • 100 g of bread
  • milk as needed
  • 1 egg
  • 30 g of grated cheese
  • 4-5 tablespoons of flour + flour q.b. to pass the meatballs
  • beef broth as needed
Preparazione
  1. Blanch the spinach in salted water, drain and sauté about 7 minutes with a clove of garlic.
  2. Finally chop finely (or put in the blender)
  3. Soak the bread in warm milk and whip.
  4. Combine the bread, spinach, fomaggio, egg and flour.
  5. Let the mixture rest in the refrigerator for an hour.
  6. Shape into balls and roll in flour.
  7. Boil the broth previously prepared and the entire lower the flame.
  8. Cook the dumplings and keep the fire very low, so as to prevent it spacchino in cooking.
  9. When they float they are ready.
  10. Drain with a slotted spoon and place in serving dish.
  11. Season to taste, or with melted cheese or with melted butter and sage.
  12. Sprinkle with Parmesan cheese and serve.

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Tart with homemade orange marmalade

Tart with homemade orange marmalade

This recipe is fantastic because the particularity is the chocolate chips in the dough of the pastry! Then there is chocolate and jam, all purchase points because it’s my jam (see post here).

Today they are sloppily .. we go straight to  reciepe, tart with homemade orange marmalade:

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Tart with homemade orange marmalade, chocolate chip shortbread in
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Ricetta: Dessert
Cucina: Italian
Ingredienti
For the pastry:
  • 300 g of flour type 00
  • 125 g of butter into small pieces
  • 100 g of sugar
  • 1 egg + 1 egg yolk
  • 40 g of chocolate drops
filling
Preparazione
  1. Place the flour in the center put the sugar, butter, diced, egg and egg yolk.
  2. Begin to knead and also add chocolate chips to form the dough, do not knead too.
  3. Wrap in plastic wrap and refrigerate for about half an hour.
  4. Then roll out the dough and put it a mold cake pan with ⅔.
  5. Spread the inside with jam and then with the remaining dough make cords to garnish surface.
  6. Bake at 180 ° C for about 30 minutes.

The doses given are for a tart mold 24 cm, as you can see from the photo, I used a loaf pan therefore ‘doses are about half’.

You can also use different kinds of jam with this crust, or rather jams of red fruits that combine more ‘with chocolate, depending on your taste … for example we would be well jam raspberries, or strawberries.

Do not forget to compliment my husband.

Oh yes, this time he formed the plate with the photo of the sweet hubby … bravo!

Now I greet you and wish you a good evening!

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Ham and cheese timbale of rice

Ham and cheese timbale of rice

Today’s recipe is a recipe of recycling, I had advanced some rise and I thought of doing so, Ham and cheese timbale of rice:

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Ham and cheese timbale of rice, culinary specialty baked of advanced rice
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Ricetta: First Course
Cucina: Italian
Ingredienti
  • 200 g of rice or advanced rice
  • 250 g of mozzarella
  • 150 of asiago cheese or fontina
  • 1 h of ham
  • grated cheese
  • Bread crumbs as required
Preparazione
  1. Take a baking dish, butter it and lay the rice (if you do not have some risotto advanced, boil some rice rather than leaving it to the tooth)
  2. Cover with mozzarella and asiago cheese, then a layer of ham and sprinkle the cheese
  3. Make another layer of rice, one cheese and one of ham.
  4. Sprinkle with grated cheese and bread crumbs, a tad bit of oil on the surface and bake 20 minutes at 180 ° C.
  5. Just that nice crust will form on the surface, churning.

 

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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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Banana bread with whole wheat flour

Banana bread with whole wheat flour

Here I am! it’s the weekend! Have you seen the final of Masterchef! the doctor won!

I ‘m writing  for the transmission’s lovers, I was very interested  in that show, maybe It is because I have a cooking blog and so it was more challenging! Soon it’s up to the kids! I can not wait!

Back to us and to the kitchen, today’s recipe is known in  the web, there is no blogger who has not done the above banana bread! I followed the weights seen in several sites, but I thought it was great with whole wheat flour and adding a bit of white chocolate.

The risult is a soft, sweet, delicious, suitable for breakfast but also great as a dessert accompanied by some creamy sauce.

Voilà, Banana bread with whole wheat flour:

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Banana bread with whole wheat flour for a sweet breakfast banana-flavored
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Ricetta: Dessert
Cucina: Italian
Ingredienti
  • 200 g whole wheat flour
  • 3 ripe bananas
  • 2 eggs
  • a few drops of orange
  • 100 g of sugar cane
  • 90 g of butter
  • 50 g of white chocolate chips or flakes
  • a pinch of baking soda
  • half a bag of baking powder
  • coconut flakes rape 'for the seal
Preparazione
  1. Mash the bananas with a fork and sprinkle with a few drops of orange juice.
  2. In a bowl mix the sugar with the butter until it is reduced in cream.
  3. Add eggs and mix well.
  4. Add the flour blended with yeast and baking soda.
  5. Finally add the white chocolate chips or if you have not (like me) cut the chocolate flakes.
  6. Mix all the ingredients and bake at 180 ° C for 40 minutes, until the surface swells and begins to crack at the center.
  7. Sprinkle with the grated coconut

I am very pleased with the result! Believe me, it is not too sweet with the addition of white chocolate and coconut aftertaste  is fantastic! Good Weekend to everybody

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Bread ball with cheese surprise

Bread ball with cheese surprise

The receipe of today is born by chance, by the fact that I had advanced some grated  bread. I’m a bit inspired  to “Giorgione and kitchen garden”, a program of Gambero Rosso which I love! Maybe because it looks a bit like my kitchen, rich in vegetables, homemade and no frills. He is a very strong character, with his belly, his overalls who never gives up and his trays that remember those tose one my grandmother used! Hi.hi.hi. .. also my daughter loves him. One day he cooked breadballs  but a little different from what I propose today, a bit more complex.

Not throw anything away, here are these balls of bread with cheese surprise super tasty and delicious:

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Bread ball with cheese surprise , meatballs at home simple and easy that everyone likes
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Ricetta: Second course
Cucina: Italian
Ingredienti
For about 6 little bread balls :
  • 100 g of bread crumbs
  • 2 eggs
  • 60 g of grated cheese
  • 6 cubes of flavorful hard cheeses to taste (for me asiago)
  • marjoram to taste
  • parsley
  • salt as necessary
  • salt to taste
  • olive oil or virgin
  • enough flour
Preparazione
  1. In a bowl combine the bread crumbs eggs, grated cheese, parsley, marjoram.
  2. Season with salt and a form an homogeneous mixture.
  3. Take a bit of dough, roll into balls and place in the center a cube of cheddar cheese.
  4. Close properly and pass the ball in the flour
  5. Cook in a skillet with olive oil when this one comes to temperature.
  6. Cook 5 minutes turning them.
  7. Serve piping hot

Byebye to everyone and good appetite

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Pancake of mardis gras fried or baked

Pancake of mardis gras fried or baked

How did you spend the Carnival Sunday? I brought my daughter to the parade, but there was no way to dress her up. Se didn’t want the indian dress, I had to remove her nose painted by kitten and finally she wanted to remove the crown princesses ! ….. in short, she says that next year she’ll dress like a sword .. ahahahha, but that fairy and princess. Well she will be a little Joan of Arc!

Here is ready ready for Mardi Gras! a nice tray of baked and fried Crumpets!

The same preparation can go in the oven or fried as you prefer. Fried, however, are coveted!!!

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Pancake of mardis gras fried or baked, the cake that you can not miss at the carnival
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Ricetta: Dessert
Cucina: Italian
Ingredienti
  • 250 g of flour type 00 + 50 g for the pastry
  • 1 egg
  • 50 g of sugar
  • 30 g of butter
  • 100 ml of milk
  • 1 teaspoon of baking powder
  • 2-3 tablespoons of liqueur (for me Marsala)
  • olive oil for frying
  • icing sugar to taste
  • Granulated sugar to taste
Preparazione
  1. Making the fountain with the flour sifted with baking powder already
  2. Add sugar, egg, butter in the center, liquor and milk.
  3. Mix and let stand for thirty minutes.
  4. Then take the machine for pasta and pull the dough up to No. 5. (or with a rolling pin)
  5. At this point, cut with washer rectangles and make a cut in the middle.
Baked version:
  1. Place half of the rectangles on a baking sheet and cook at 180 degrees for 10 minutes until they turn red a little bit.
  2. Remove from the oven and sprinkle with powdered sugar.
Fried version:
  1. For the other half, well heat the oil in a frying pan and fry a couple of minutes, dip in granulated sugar immediately.

For my family I made all fried!!! mmm…. Good mardis gras to all!

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Cicerchiata of Abruzzo

cicerchiata of abruzzo

Here is  Carnival! Like every year it’s celebrated with pancakes or sweets, here I present the typical dessert that my grandmother made during Carnival, especially when there were so many people: The cicerchiata of Abruzzo. The Neapolitans Know this, for them it is called struffoli that they made on  Christmas, while the Abruzzi calls cicerchiata, balls like chickpeas ( cicerchie ) assembled with honey.

I enjoyed it so much hat all the family help me, even my baby that  funny making little balls , that’s a joy, every ball she was licking the whole hand … ahahahha that go well!

it’s nice because you can do various shapes, my grandmother often made donut and the recipe is easy because the grandmother’s recipes are all measured spoon, here cicerchiata of our family tradition:

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Cicerchiata of Abruzzo, sweet typical of the Abruzzo region for carnival made ​​with Grandmather's recipe
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Ricetta: Dessert
Cucina: Italian
Ingredienti
The "law" says, for each egg one tablespoon of sugar and a tablespoon of olive oil and 100 g of flour type 00
  • 2 eggs
  • 2 tablespoons sugar
  • 2 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil
  • 200 g of flour type 00
  • oil for frying
  • 10-12 tablespoons of honey
  • tails dolorate
  • some almonds peeled
Preparazione
  1. In a large bowl , combine sugar, eggs and oil , add the flour and knead until it forms a smooth paste .
  2. Form as many balls as small chickpeas, also a tad bit less when you bake always swell a bit ' .
  3. Heat oil in a frying pan and cook the balls until golden turning occasionally, ( about 5 minutes )
  4. Drain on paper towels.
  5. Meanwhile heat the honey in a pan,it is formed just ' froth , put the little balls and cook 5 - 10minutes in honey ,they should caramelize and absorb the honey.
  6. At this point take the mold that has' decided to use and wet. Put the balls to give the desired shape and make them dry. Sprinkle with colored tails and peeled almonds. Allow to cool and enjoy it
Note
the flour is slightly back with the dose , depending on moisture ' , gfrandezza the egg , then adjust it a bit ' in theory should be 100 g per egg .

Next time I will opt for it in  cups colored portion, it is more convenient to serve and eat too.

Do not turn away from these screens tomorrow other pancakes!!! :):):)

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