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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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Braided Bread pistachio walnuts

Hello! Today I am going straight to the point and step to the recipe. It was a bit  I wanted to make an alternative bread, in the beginning I wanted to do only with nuts, then I thought also to use pistachios! It  was good and very fragrant,  this is the recipe:

Braided Bread pistachio walnuts
 
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Braided bread pistachio walnuts, you put it on the table and disappears immediately
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Ricetta: bread
Cucina: Italian
Ingredienti
  • 500 g of flour type 00
  • 250 ml of water
  • 12 g of yeast
  • 30 ml extra virgin olive oil
  • 1 teaspoon salt
  • 1 teaspoon sugar
  • 90 g of chopped walnuts and pistachios
Preparazione
  1. Shell the pistachios, crush the walnuts and chop the whole thing (about 90 g in total)
  2. Leaving aside a few walnuts for decoration
  3. Combine the salt and sugar to flour
  4. Dissolve the yeast in a bit 'of water, add it to the center of the flour.
  5. Combine oil, pistachios and walnuts.
  6. Add more water until it forms a smooth paste.
  7. Knead for a few minutes until you have a smooth ball well.
  8. Place and rise 3-4 hours.
  9. Take the dough, divide it into three equal balls and shape of the loaves with which you will make the braid.
  10. Brush with oil and place here and there on the surface of the walnut kernels.
  11. Let rise again one hour.
  12. Bake in a preheated oven at 200 ° C for 20 minutes, then lowered to 180 ° C for another 20 minutes.
Note
To maintain proper moisture during cooking, put a small cup with water in the oven

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Rice and lettuce croquettes

This is a yummy receipe , a good idea for an happy hour!!!!

Rice and lettuce croquettes
 
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Rice and lettuce croquettes, so good that even the kids eat
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Ricetta: Appetiser
Cucina: Italian
Serves: 4
Ingredienti
  • two handfuls of rice
  • 1 small sprig of lettuce
  • 1 egg
  • 30 g breadcrumbs
  • 20 g of cheese
  • salt to taste
  • enough flour for dusting the croquettes
  • olive oil for frying
  • parsley to taste
Preparazione
  1. Boil the rice in salted water until cooked and drain is complete, set it aside.
  2. Wash and dry the salad
  3. Cut it finely with a knife
  4. In a bowl combine the rice, salad, egg, bread crumbs, cheese and parsley.
  5. Mix well and season with salt.
  6. Take a little of the mixture, roll into croquettes and flour them.
  7. Cook 5 minutes until golden brown that result in hot oil.

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Little cooked grain basket

Little cooked grain basket, a delicate and elegant appetizer

Ciaooo ….. An idea to submit an appetizer or a drink.

Ignore the eggs because this note was made on the occasion of Easter, but you can submit what you want … the cooked grain bins, a delicate and elegant appetizer

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Baskets to the cooked grain, a delicate and elegant appetizer
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Ricetta: Appetiser
Cucina: Italian
Ingredienti
  • 200 g of cooked grain
  • 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 refrigerator for half an hour
  5. Then proceed to form the bins
  6. Take a bit of dough and fill the muffin tins previously covered with baking paper.
  7. Cook at 200 ° c for 25 minutes until redden a little.
  8. Serve with what you want

 

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Salty muffin with zucchini flower

Salty muffin with zucchini flower, good and beautiful receipe!

Salty muffin with zucchini flower
 
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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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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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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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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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Small flatbread with herbs

Small flat bread with herbs

As I told you in my previous post, yesterday we ate in a way a little bit unusual! is already the second time that we do it with Romina and she gets mad because it’s a novelty.

We eat sitting on the cushions, as do the Indians hahaha, appliance does good for the table, our little table is also very low, so for this kind of thing is very comfortable, a nice candle in the center and  that’s super!

Therefore, along with the magnificent carrot chips violets were also fantastic scones with herbs that have accompanied with mortadella, salami, and a nice glass of red wine! The best of life!

Here is the recipe for little flatbread with herbs:

Small flatbread with herbs
 
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Small flat bread with herbs, an alternative to the usual bread to accompany the meal
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Ricetta: Bread
Cucina: Italian
Ingredienti
  • 150 g of semolina
  • 150 g flour 00
  • 150 ml of milk
  • 20 ml extra virgin olive oil
  • 1 scant teaspoon salt
  • 1 teaspoon sugar
  • half a packet of dry yeast
  • salt
  • extra virgin olive oil as needed for brushing
  • enough herbs (rosemary, oregano, marjoram, sage)
Preparazione
  1. Combine the two flours and mix with a teaspoon of sugar and salt
  2. Dissolve yeast in warm milk
  3. Place the flour, pour in the center of the milk with the dissolved yeast, begin to knead and add the oil. Form a smooth and homogeneous mixture and let it rise for 3-4 - hours until doubled in volume.
  4. At this point, take the dough and your hands are wet with oil, apply like we do with the pizza.
  5. With the help of glass, cut circles in which we will have on the baking sheet.
  6. Lead to the second rising for at least 1 hour
  7. After that resume and pigiarle obtaining some nice humps.
  8. Chop the herbs, brush the surface with oil, add a few grains of coarse salt and bake at 200 ° C for 15 minutes.

This is the dose for about a dozen small flat bread

Notes: I used a yeast that is new to me but I’m not mad, in fact recommend brewer’s yeast or better p.m.

Since my husband loves me, when I add in the shopping list to buy the baking powder because I finished it, he obviously buy one for pizza, does nothing on the package if there is a mega focacciona almost bigger than the paper! So I have to  use it!

Hello ciaoooo

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Chips of purple carrots

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Hello people!! Today I ‘m talking of food now! Today’s recipe is a winner.

Is the second time I bought  purple carrots, this year I’m looking for a lot of new vegetables that I’ve never cooked before, including these one! I stimulate the imagination! Then we are lovers of vegetables!
Recently, I was convinced that they were a cross between carrot and beet, however, thanks to dear Edvige Memento Solonico that there has always been a lots of superuseful information, I discovered that it’s a vegetable older than our carrots , which have a lot of qualities and a strong antioxidant! So that’s fine! Instead of anti-wrinkle creams … purple carrots!
The first time I bought it I made a puree but I was not impressed, so I have not posted it, this time I had the idea of cooking them as if they were potato chips,! just as we do when we make home fries with potatos and without deep fryer, the way home.

Let’s say that I do twice due at noon, but I have literally burned! oh yes it happens! I think you also Cracco little he burned something in his life! .. ahahahha …
I was too excited I have not given up and tonight I remade, among other things, we also decided to eat in a way a bit unusual, but I’ll tell you in the next episode, in order to avoid extensions.
Step straight to the recipe …
Chips of purple carrots:

Chips of purple carrots
 
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Chips of purple carrots, fried in a tasty and colorful effect
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Ricetta: Side dish
Cucina: Italian
Ingredienti
  • 8 purple carrots
  • olive oil or for frying enough
  • salt to taste
Preparazione
  1. Cut carrots into julienne, slice the pear 'should not be too fine,
  2. Wash and dry
  3. Meanwhile in a pan bring the oil temperature, put carrots and high heat, cook for about ten minutes, turning them occasionally until they are crispy. Attention to cooking, remove them immediately as they become a little golden otherwise you will burn in an instant.
  4. A nice sprinkling of salt and are ready to be devoured!

Night everyone!

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